>> welcome to the news hour from doha. egypt's army is under attack in sinai. dozens of soldiers have been killed. it comes one day after president sisi vowed to crack down on terrorists. >> greece offers concession to say creditors in a bid to secure a bailout but it may be too little, too late. >> one small parcel, food for five days. we take you inside a migrant

camp in france. plus a i'm andrew follow mass, diving on australia's great barrier reef. what's down there is spectacular, but it's at-risk. i'll be explaining what farmers will be doing on land that is largely to blame. >> we begin with developing news out of egypt and a major battle on going in northern sinai. egyptian helicopters are now carrying out strikes on targets there. this is the situation on the ground. a group calling itself the sinai province is attacking check points and security interestslations in rafah. medical sources have reported 30 soldiers have been killed. the road linking the area is being targeted by armed men.

attacks in sinai are growing. this his the biggest we have seen on the military in months. we have more. >> the attacks come a day after egypt buried its public prosecutor, who was killed in a car bomb attack in cairo on monday. president sisi ordered his cabinet to change current law to say face what he calls terrorism. since the military deposed president mohamed morsi nearly two years ago violence in sinai increased. groups carried out a number of attacks, can i go dozens of soldiers. in 2014, the group became known as province of sinai and sworn allegiance to islamic state of iraq and the levant. it carried out more attacks and proved to be one of egypt's biggest threats. on the offensive the military intensified security campaign,

carrying out attacks against what it says was terrorist hideouts. killing dozens of fighters and arresting many others. approximately 700 people fighters soldiers and some civilians have been killed this year alone. the egyptian government demolished houses near the border with the gaza strip and israel. it says it's creating a five-kilometer buffer zone to prevent smuggling. hundreds of families have been forcibly transferred out of their homes but sinai problems are not new. residents complain of government negligence underdevelopment, unemployment and poverty. many in sinai feel treated as second class citizens and looked at with suspicious by egypt authorities. >> an egyptian journalist is with me now. he is a former editor. thank you for talking to us. we have seen various groups in

this particular troubled region attacking since in the last year or so. what is the many objective? is there a main objective for several different interests? were. >> apart from the objective the so-called islamic state group in sinai, i believe that the main reasons for such uprising, for such terrorism, i believe that egypt, the egyptian regime have created that terrorism over the last four decades. >> how so? in what way? >> -- regime starting in the

1980's mubarak purposely retrained and stopped all development plans in sinai and that was done for a purpose. i refuse totally when somebody in charge and somebody in the government, government of the governments try to play stupid when we ask him or them about the reasons they refrain from doing development plans in sinai. this was done purposefully and it hurt the egyptians in sinai. as we heard there are certain a acid agreement between egypt and certain parties original parties, the refrain from implementing any development plans. >> how would it benefit -- >> reasons and for strategic reasons, as well. >> right. i'm sorry you have to clarify this for us.

i'm not quite understanding this. who are those parties and how would this in any way benefit egypt? >> if you give me a chance to carry on, maybe it will be more clear. second, when the egyptians because i insist to call the people in sinai the locals, egyptians, as well, they are all egyptians, when they are being deprived of their very right to own the land that they and their fore fathers and fore grand fathers live on, just for the mere suspicion and the silly accusation that was adopted by regime after regime that they are being suspicious, that they are potential agents for israel, this is so insulting. this is a very good recipe for any up rising, local up rising. we have so many reasons that we can think of that, you know, that were the ways to where we

are now. >> it is a region that's been deprived of development and a hotbed of frustration. >> it's been deprived, the people of their own basic rights of at least owning the -- now on the time last month on the time on the day when mohamed morsi was sentenced to death the former president, president sisi signed a law that give the right for foreigners to own the land in sinai. the egyptians who hold dual citizenship to own the land in sinai, except for the egyptians the local egyptians in sinai. >> right. >> how do you interpret that? >> right. >> the transfer of the egyptian locals in sinai why is it being

done? they are under the allegation of fighting terrorism? ok, we have in cairo terrorism. would that mean evacuating the population of cairo in order to give a chance to the army, both the army and the police to fight terrorism? >> it's certainly a very complex issue. thank you very much for coming in and speaking to us. >> to another developing story. greece offered concessions to creditors in order to secure a bailout deal. prime minister alexis tsipras has written in a letter that he's willing to accept most of the bailout conditions. john is in athens for us. what's been the reaction to tsipras's decision to concede to most terms? >> i think that a lot of people feel relieved that i've spoken to this morning, that there might be hope for an agreement even if not immediately, in a

few days, perhaps after a referendum that's still scheduled to happen next sunday. there is no question, i think that the closure of banks this week and the capital controls imposed on withdrawals has eroded the majority that would have voted no to any austerity package from greece's creditors. according to an opinion poll published today in a government friendly newspaper before those capitol controls, 57% of greeks were willing to vote against it. today, that has been reduced to 46% over the same period, the yes vote has ricin from 30-37%. while it looks as though the overall public opinion verdict on this new package that the government is willing to accept with a few changes may be no, but yes can still be rising. you've noticed now that there is

shifting ground under the government with a lot of happiness -- unhappiness being expressed over the state of the economy as a result of these real capital controls. >> what are the changes that tsipras is -- wants to negotiate on now? >> mr. tsipras wants to really add a few foot notes to what is presented. he wants to delay the implementation of a new labor law until october. he wants to start reducing supplementary pensions and subsidies for low earning pensioners from the end of the year rather than july 1. these are foot notes. essentially, what the program says and these are essentials that the greek government itself originally proposed is that pension spending would be cult by $700 million this year, and

more consumer tax would be raised to the tune of $650 million. the greek plan is something that the creditors have embraced. they've added a few other things. the greeks essentially have said yes to that. the trouble is that it's not bog to be plain sailing. mr. tsipras isn't going to manage to slip back into a financial oversight and assistance program so easily. germany is saying that we have to have the referendum first. this essentially pressures the government, because if there's a no vote, his creditors can say well the people don't want this, so we're leaving you on your own. you can repay your own debt and default, which i think would erode the government support here extremely fast. if there's a yes vote, the greek people will have said to the government, pressure is put directly on the government of mr. tsipras, possibly hoping

that they can trigger its downfall through this referendum on sunday. >> thank you. >> stay with us here on the news hour china passes a new law giving the state tighter controls over cyberspace. >> i'm on haiti's northern border with the dominican republic. there are expected to be thousands of deportees coming back to haiti. does the country have anywhere to house them? >> argentina puts six past paraguay in the copa america. that is in sport, a little later. >> tens of thousands of people have taken part in pro democracy rallies in hong kong. this came as the territory marked the 18th anniversary of its hand over to china. this was the first large scale pro tested since lawmakers voted

against electoral reforms which would have allowed beijing to vet candidates. we have the latest from hong kong. >> much more than numbers at this year's marsh estimated in the tens of thousands compared with the 500,000 who came out at the same time last year. in part, the reason seems to be protests. this is a city that has gone through a tumultuous political year with street protests, street occupations disrupting life here for several weeks. there is a feeling of disillusion about what has been achieved at the end of it, with hong kong seeming to have as little in its affairs as when it was a british colony. there's been dissolution sense of anger where the shouting matches between these protestors, but the authorities have been determined that that anger will not spill out into

street occupations once more. this is umbrellas square, which was at the heart of the occupation movement last year, occupied for a number of weeks. the police here are determined that at the end of this march tonight, the traffic will still be running here. >> china passed a new law giving the state's titler controls over cyberspace. the government it is it's because of growing security threats to chinese networks. the national security law outlines tougher measures against on line attacks. the wide ranging law also covers control over territorial waters and air space. adrien brown filed the latest details from beijing. >> china's government is obsessed with security, so in many ways, the passing of this new law is not surprising. it will allow the country's vast security apparatus to police the internet in any way they see fit in the name of national security. it is a far-reaching law that covers everything from cyberspace to outer space. the wording of this law is very

vague. for instance, we don't know what happens to violators. also it's not clear how you know if you've broken this new law. human rates groups say that vagueness is what worries them. for instance, is criticism of the government now tantamount to sub version? also commentators say is this the response of a government that feels confident? on the day this new security law was passed, thousands have taxi drivers have been stage ago strike in beijing in response to on line competition from operators like uber. thousands of taxi's have been idled in the city. it's been very difficult to get one. it's not clear whether this action will ends thursday or continue into friday. this sort of spontaneous action worries china's government and is one of the reasons they passed laws like the one that's

being passed today. >> one police officer has been killed in a gun battle in burundi. the battle is the latest in weeks of unrest. people in burundi are wait to go hear the results of monday's parliamentary elections and boycotted by the opposition and widely condemned. let's get more now live. with this attack, has there been a claim of responsibility as yet? >> >> not yet. there was gunfire overnight carrying on into wednesday. the streets are quiet the police and soldiers pushing most people back. police closed off this neighborhood known for the most militant of opposition members who don't want the president to run for a third term in the july presidential election. they closed it off saying they have information that some of these opposition members are arming themselves. they have guns and grenades and other things. the people are becoming to

remove those. it seems when police and soldiers try to do that, those people armed started fighting back. that's why the occasional exchange of gunfire. we were standing right here and a grenade was thrown on to the road. there was a police car standing there and it was thrown at the police. there was a lot of shooting after that. that's when this one police officer was shot. the police spokesperson said civilians have been killed. he's working on numbers killed overnight and wednesday morning. it is still quite tense in this area. >> attacks leading up to the recent parliamentary polls what's the general atmosphere now? >> people are scared, frustrated tired. they nope it's not over. there is still a presidential election in a few weeks time. today is independence day the country celebrating independence from belgium but most people don't feel like celebrating.

the president is at the stadium nearby. it is pretty much empty. he's giving medals and awards to people who stopped the coup in may helping him retain power. the president's defiant saying as far as he's concerned his party has won the parliamentary election. people on the ground are saying they will fight him but are overpowered by the soldiers and police. >> thank you for that update. >> the united nations say it's been forced to reduce aid to syrian refugees in jordan and lebanon. the world food program said it is making cuts because of the severe lack of funding. let's get more on this from jordan. how badly will these cuts affect

the refugees? >> >> right now the cuts have been implemented already in lebanon so are going to be quite significant. we understand from the world food program that as of july in lebanon, vulnerable syrian refugees will receive half of the amount of the food voucher each person used to receive following these cuts. as of now every person, every syrian refugee living in lebanon is only going to get 13 and a half dollars to spent on food. in jordan, the cuts haven't been implemented yet. there is still enough money to cover the food vouchers. in july, if no funding i guess received by august, all food assistance will be suspended for syrian refugees living in urban communities in

jordan. 85% of the syrian refugees population is living outside the official camps. it's going to leave 440,000 syrian refugees without food assistance. the word food program release completely on contributions from the international community and from private companies and individuals, and that is already 80% underfunded for this year. it's calling on the international community to send the assistance in order to continue to help many vulnerable refugees from syria living in all parts of the region. that includes not only lebanon and jordan, but egypt and turkey and iraq. now, the world's food program has used this warning practice in the past where it tries to prepare the refugees for possible cuts in food assistance in following months, but it also uses this warning that

statement, in order to remind the international community the countries that have pledged the money to send it so that refugees can receive their aid. now, this is happening the world food program says as some syrian refugees in the region are spending their fifth ramadan outside of syria they're becoming increasingly vulnerable every year. we're seeing more and more syrian families having to send their children to work to add to family income. children are being pulled out of school and humanitarian agencies are very concerned about the funding issue. this would have a long term devastating effect especially on the children. this is also happening as the attention of some world donors is diverted to other conflicts and crises in the world. this year, the conflict in yemen

and as well the earthquake in nepal. >> thank you for that update, speaking about the world food program reducing aid to syrian and refugees in jordan and lebanon. >> a record 137,000 refugees crossed the mediterranean to europe in the first half of 2015. many are escaping war and persecution. cal. >> is used as a jumping out point. >> what do you say about this, the sight of line of men and women from eritrea or sudan being given food parcels not in africa, but

caliais. more used to emergency work in africa, this his the first day they have ever had to do this in france. >> that's the first time in 35 years of existence that an international n.g.o. is working on french territory. for us, it's definitely again a failure. we have to work in our own territory. >> much which this would be unnecessary if the u.k. allowed these people to seek asylum. that's the reason they're stuck in calendar lace after all.

in calais, charities are have gone to do all of this for these people. the french nor the british government want to lift a finger. >> many of the men here have foot injuries from jumping on to vehicles to get to england. this man has infection in a foot from injuries in the camp. >> he will get gangrene. >> she is saving your foot. >> there's something religious about this, the help some of prepared to give to the busy possessed. the injured man didn't want to share his face, but just listen to his thoughts. >> human rights, human human whether you are black white asian, european, whatever, you are human. you are equal. but you are not equal here. >> actually, we need with other organizations to implement

response with may go grants in terms of food, in terms of medical, in terms of sanitation, as well. >> the diggers move hills to create more and bigger fence to say keep the migrants in. hug in it is in short supply here. many on both sides of the english channel will say their bandaged feet and full stomachs will only make it easier to jump on vehicles. such is life in this small european hell. al jazeera in calais. >> let's check on the weather now. everton has news about flooding in costa rica. >> we've seen heavy and steady rain making its way across costa rica. we've got this line of cloud here. it extends across and through

southern parts of the caribbean into costa rica. it's been throwing down big downpours for the last couple of days. this is the result that have. it's caused widespread flooding. it has damaged roads and bridges, around 1500 homes have been damaged as a result of the big downpours which have been very, very dramatic here. many are in need of assistance. through wednesday in and around costa rica and into parts of panama, a little further north into nicaragua, more showers in a similar area as we head on toward the weekend. the problem really very much staying with us at least for the next few days. also see problems further norse into united states, where we have seen showers continue to go drive across the central plains toward the midwest. we've had flooding concerns here, as well.

this is higher where the river levels are extremely high. the rains continue moving up towards the northeast. >> the united nations world heritage committee decided against putting australia's great barrier reef on its endangered list. it will remain on the unesco watch list for another four years, under threat from pollution and climate change. andrew tomas took a dive to assess the damage. >> most threats to australia's great barrier reef around that obvious. although half of it has disappeared over the last 30 years, choose your spot carefully and there are bright corals and plenty of fish. the coal ports built along the closest coast are from here, far out of sight.

one threat once pointed out is too obvious, the spikey crown of thorns star fish. there is a a plague of them. they feed on coral and can be toxic to fish. a team of people are fighting back, injecting the star fish with poison. it works, but is a huge effort. >> the damage to the coral is quite amazing. the coral is facing enough threats as it is. the crown of thorns star fish is something we can actively do something about. >> one star fish can produce 60 million eggs a year. >> there have been outbreaks of crown of thorns star fish in the past, but this latest one is the worst. its human activities on land are largely to blame.

>> growing sugar cane is big business on australia's east coast. its farmers use fertilizers. when the excess washes off the land into the sea, the fertilizers feed the plankton. this farmer applies fertilizers much more precisely. >> we apply chemicals in 40% of the area. >> once you'd have put it everywhere. >> oh, yes. >> runoff from the property, what we do on this land does affect the reef. >> he is a relatively young farmer around here, getting his older neighbors to change their practices isn't easy. president obama said he was worried about the great barrier reef and wanted it to be there for his yet unborn grandchildren. his concern echos the united nations. action is needed for the reef to

survive. al jazeera, on australia's great barrier reef. >> human rights watch calls for an investigation into saudi-led airstrikes in yemen saying war crimes may have been committed. >> details on the women's world cup later in sports.

>> more than 30 egyptian soldiers have been killed during a major battle in northern sinai. the sinai province is attacking check points and security interestslations around rafah. there is heavy fighting nearby. >> there are growing security threats to chinese net according to officials. >> in northern sinai neighboring gaza and israel are being affected by fighting. israel ho closed its border. what more can you tell us?

>> >> that's right. israel has closed two border crossings. the israeli military is actively monitoring the situation along its border with egypt's sinai region. we understand that its monitoring the area around gaza, as well. we also have to understand that the security cooperation between israel and egypt is relatively healthy. many viewers will know the two countries have what's described as a cold peace in place since 1979. although that relationship was strained in 2012, during israel's bombardment of the gaza strip, when the then egyptian president mohamed morsi pulled egypt's ambassador from israel, but in the last few weeks

egypt's current president sisi has sent a new envoy to israel, so that relationship appears to be much stronger. in saying that israel is deeply concerned about the violence in egypt's sinai region, they have good cause for that. in 2011, there was a violent attack in israel from groups in the sinai region, which crossed over from the border area, resulting in the deaths of a number of civilians and soldiers. since then, a huge fence has been constructed separating egypt and israel. this fence is five meters high and covered in razor wire, underscoring israel's fear of violence. >> thank you for that update from west jerusalem. >> human rights watch is calling for investigation into saudi-led airstrikes in yemen.

we have more from the united nation in new york. >> my wife and four daughters died, all of them. >> this man lost 27 members of his extended family, most of them children when his home was hit by a bomb. >> on that night someone came to ask for my daughter's hand in marriage. i didn't even have time to be happy for my daughter before the strike happened. >> he was interviewed by human rights watch as part of their investigation that found at least six homes in saada were struck. they found no evidence the homes were housing fighters. >> the military target would have to be of such a high value that it would justify a high

amount of collateral damage. with 127 civilians killed, it's hard to justify that. >> five forecasts an empty school and empty petrol station were hit in saada, the focus of the investigation. the coalition is trying to prevent the houthi rebel group from taking over theian men government. >> neither saudi arabia nowhere the united states have yet to respond to human rights watches request for an investigation. >> despite repeated requests, they have not responded to al jazeera. with no functioning government in place and a worsening humanitarian crisis, the united nation said its focus is finding a political absolutely to the conflict. >> with respect to the united nations, all of the violence, all of the sort of destruction we've seen is quite serious which is why we're pushing our

efforts to get the parties to have a ceasefire or at the very least, a humanitarian policy. >> in the meantime, human rights watch says all sides in a complex and now long running conflict must follow the rules of war. with no end to the fighting in sight, the hope is to spare civilians. al jazeera the united nations. >> let's look closer at this situation with yemen's information minister, joining me now from riyadh, saudi arabia's capital. nadia, what do you make of the human rights watch report accusing the saudi coalition striking at residential areas? >> as we are sorry for any loss that happens in yemen all yemeni citizens are precious to us, as the government, but what we are asking is the human rights watch to investigate war crimes happening in taiz and aden and so many other areas

that nobody has been talking about. what we want to say is that humanitarian assistance is not negotiable. there is no negotiation that will happen about humanitarian assistance and no political agreement can take place until humanitarian assistance is available and it reaches all people that need it, wherever they are in yemen. >> i want to take you up on that particular point. how is aid getting through to those who need it? is aid getting through at all? >> that's the point. aid is not getting through to yemen. even through that that that area controlled by the houthis there are areas in the northern side of the country that are not getting the aid they should. in fact, there are news of corruption, of highjacking, of taking the aid that comes for war efforts as they call it. in aden now, there is the world

food program ship that has been prevented, attacked by the houthis and not allowed to unload its shipment of milk for children medicines, food for aden and the civilians there who are dying because. dengue fever and all other environmental epidemics and just joust right hunger. >> the u.n. has said that that particular ship that you're talking about that you say was attacked by the houthis now the u.n. has said that they knew that there was some fighting in aden and had divert that had ship elsewhere. what do you make of that? >> no, no, that's not true. that happened for the ship that took place before that. you're talking about a different incident. now, there is a ship currently currently trying to unload its shipment in aden, but it's being

prevented to do that. we are trying to negotiate different deals, whether we can do it through smaller boats and take them to safer areas in add dan port. that's one thing our trucks that have been waiting in the border of aden for over a week, these trucks have made their way on land through sanna and the houthis have prevented them from reaching aden -- >> i'm running out of time here. i want to ask you very quickly you're accusing the u.n. of not doing enough distributing the supplies. why do you say that? >> what we're saying is that more could have happened. the word should come together for yemen the international humanitarian community for saving lives, for children who are dying. they could have done this as that you have done in sudan. where are the donors? aren't any lives precious enough? aren't yemenis worth the money

spent in darfur? why isn't the world the humanitarian community coming together and doing everything they can for yemen? this is the question we're asking. the humanitarian community the u.n. is not doing what they should do. they should protect the shipments like in somalia protect the ships as they go into the borders and the port of yemen. they are not doing that. why not? this is what we're demanding. >> thank you so much for coming on the show and speaking to us, yemen's minister of information. >> cuba has become the word leader in preventing the transmission of h.i.v. from pregnant mothers to their unborn children. according to the world health organization, every year, around 1.4 million h.i.v. positive women become pregnant around the world. untreated, they have a 15% to 45% chance of transmitting the virus to their babies during

pregnancy, labor delivery or through breast feeding. in cuba, fewer than 2% of children who's mothers have h.i.v. are born with the virus. the w.h.o. says that that is the lowest rate possible with the prevention methods available. the director of the word health organization's h.i.v. department joins us live now from geneva. this is great news, of course for cuba. how did they achieve this? >> and it is remarkable achievement by cuba and gives a lot of courage and optimism as we look towards achieving and aids-free generation. cuba really has been able to provide essential service to says to pregnant women. it has a strong and resilient

family health care system and through that system, those drugs have been delivered to pregnant women and to children. that has been certainly a key ingredient of the success plus a very strong political will to make it happen. >>--seemingly better heat resources, what can they take from this cuban suction? >> obviously we can learn a lot from the cuban success. resilient, strong health system is one ingredient. cuba is certainly not the only country that has come a long way. other countries have seen major reductions and certainly some have come a very long way in reducing mother to child transmission. what is remarkable on the global scale is that also, i would say poor country lower middle income countries have also, some of them made major strides

toward reducing mother to child transmission. >> reduction in h.i.v. infection rates in cuba is impressive in terms of ridding the world of the virus. how so? >> our vision and target is to ending aids by 2030 overall and for mother to child transmission a very ambitious facts for 2015 where we hope to reduce to a level of 40,000. in 2013, the year where we have the last data from right now we're at 240,000. we do have ambitious goal toward 2015 this year. on the bigger scale in reducing and ending h.i.v., we look towards 2030. >> we're going to have to leave it there. thank you for joining us on the show, the director of the

w.h.o.'s h.i.v. department. >> a pleasure. >> haiti says the deportation of dominicans of haitian descent could trigger a humanitarian crisis. thousands have been forced over the border and the government simply can't cope with the influx. >> on the border, people are crossing back. some deported, some head to go haiti before forced to. some have never lived in haiti but can't convince dominican officials to remain in the place they call home. >> they force you to leave even when you show legal papers. >> this is what's waiting an uncertain life and no guarantee of a place to live. many live in poverty and have no access to basic services. >> living in a shanty town, it grew in the wake of the 2010

earthquake. she warns where all those leaving will live. >> the deportees will complicate the situation here even more. i saw many of them in the city center. it was sad to see them in the street. there were small children among them. >> haiti's prime minister is warning that the deportations could create a humanitarian crisis. we're at haiti's main northern border crossing where the government will build a reception center. other than temporary housing this is a country that still has few jobs and where tens of thousands of people still live in tent cities. >> those returning either left haiti for a better life in the richer dominican republic or their parents or grandparents did. life is much better in the dominican republic than haiti. the average income in the bottom republican is seven times that of haitis. haitian ministers in direct

contact with the dominican government say they are not getting what they need. >> proper information, how much people will be deported, when they will deport them and on side, we want to receive them on two borders so we can mobilize efforts in these two places. >> meanwhile more and more people are coming, coming to a country that is struggling to feed and house the people already here. al jazeera on the dominican-haitian border. >> still to come, tinkering with time a leap second has been added to the world's clocks. we'll explain. >> in sport we'll tell you why one top seed has withdrawn from wimbledon.

>> these people have decided that today they will be arrested. >> i know that i'm being surveilled. >> people are not getting the care that they need. >> this is a crime against humanity. >> hands up... >> don't shoot. >> hands up... >> don't shoot. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> explosions going on... we're not quite sure - >> is that an i.e.d.? >> "faultlines". al jazeera america's award-winning investigative

series. monday, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> time for sport now with robin. >> we're going to start with the latest tennis news, djokovic securing a third place. the japanese withdrew from the tournament. >> i'm very disappointed especially grand slam and i thought i was playing well on grass, so very unfortunate to

lose this chance, but i try to keep it up and hope i can do well in the u.s. series. >> argentina's footballers are one win away from winning the copa america trophy. absolutely ruthless in their semifinal. a report on a seven goal thriller in conception. >> paraguay in their quest for the title argentina off to an ideal start setting up for the opening goal. this was just the start of the night to remember.

paraguay managed to pull one back scoring in the 43 minute. the finalist from the last tournament still very much in contention at the break. things were about to get worse for paraguay. much worse. as manchester united started a misery. making a mockery of its defense argentina in again. >> a brilliant header, then heaped more pain on paraguay. finished off the scoring route. 6-1 to set up a final showdown with chile. >> hopefully, we will win it.

we are very happy. we arrived very well and we'll play against a very good team, which has been showing since the first game that it's one of the best. they are playing at home. it will be a difficult match. >> the most important thing is to keep good feelings, because although we did a brave copa america, people always remember the last match. at least we have this opportunity to leave with better feelings. >> a new continental champion will be crowned saturday. al jazeera. >> at the women's world cup the u.s. sealed their place in the final, beating germany in montreal. a penalty in the second half. the substitute sealed the 2-0 win for the olympic champions. they will now play either japan or england in the final. >> the last available spot for the world cup final will be

decided later wednesday. england are the surprise at the tournament, aim to go reach the final for the very first time. england are up against the tournaments defending champions japan but find comfort in the fact that they are unbeaten in their last three employees against japan. >> more than 20 foreign players are chasing their dreams. mogadishu is tracking footballers from across the continent. we explain. >> they have come from as far as away as nigeria and uganda to follow their dreams of playing in a professional league. these footballers are the star attractions and they are loving it. >> for me, football is just my life. it's what i have the passion from since i was a kid.

i tell myself wherever football takes me to, i'm happy with it. >> the foreign players the best players in the league, because they have more experience. it costs $500 a month which they say is more than what they earn at home. club officials say its fortunes on the field improved. >> we are the first team to bring foreign players to somalia. they have raised the standard of our game and level of our home players. last year, we won the league and this year, we are finishing second in the league. >> leaving here can be challenging. armed groups kept watch. the players had to overcome the language barrier. that hasn't stopped them from coming. more is expected again soon, which is why the somalia football association limited the number of foreign players a team can sign. >> every team is allowed to register only four foreign players to protect the local

talent. we can't have a league made up only of foreign players. >> foreign players have carried more excitement to the beautiful game. >> this is not just any football match. it's a local debut. these fans have been waiting for this game all season. whichever team wins will have the bragging rights for the next year. >> for now he and his teammates are celebrating their win and they say they can't wait until the start of the next season. al jazeera mogadishu somalia. >> wimbledon copa america and women's world cup dominating the sport. all the details at our website. >> you may not have noticed it, but the last minutes of june had

61 seconds in it. the so-called leap second was added to compensate for the speed of the earth's rotation. we explain. >> time. we're often losing it, running out of it, now we're actually gaining an extra second, to keep us in synch with the earth's own sense of time. time used to be marked by the earth's rotation, one complete turn taking 24 hours. then atomic clocks were invented. they use the vibrations and atoms to measure time. atomic time is constant, but the earth's rotation is slowing down. two move out of synch by a traction each day so we add a leap second every now and then. there are consequences of tinkering with time. many commuter systems aren't programmed to deem with the extra second and glitches happen. satellite and g.p.s. systems struggle to cope with the j. at the royal observatory the

home of time keeping this astronomer said precision time is key to society. >> time keeping i guess so important to any civilization. looking back to the greeks, egyptians, bob loanians, measuring time was very important for running a civillation. it sometime is today more so. we need to know how we're keeping track of time. >> most years the earth runs on time and no j is needed. scientists will vote on whether the leap second should be stopped. abolishing them would have no immediate affect, we'd hardly notice it. over millennia clocks might say it's day when it's dark outside. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. we've got another full bulletin of news for you right at the top of the hour. we'll have the latest on the greek debt crise. we expect prime minister alexis tsipras to make a statement in the next hour.

egypt's army is under attack a day after president sisi vowed to crack down on terrorism. ♪ you are watching al jazeera. coming up in the next half hour greece offers concessions to creditors in a bid to secure a bailout, but it may be too little too late. china passes a new law, giving the state tighter controls over cyberspace. tinkering with time a leap second had been added to the worl