>> welcome to the news hour from doha. coming up in the next our: >> boko haram kills more than 100 people in multiple attacks in northeast nigeria. >> yes or no, rallies expected in the greek capital in the last day of campaining for a vote on a bailout deal. >> the u.s. and the u.n. called for a humanitarian truce in

yemen. >> how a 14th century scientist is reuniting people on the island of cypress. there's been deadly attacks in the northeast of nigeria all blamed on the boko haram. more than 140 people have been killed in three separate attacks on villages. government official says several mosques were attacked on wednesday night. 97 adults and children were killed there. two other villages were attacked. thursday a bomb went off. we have the latest now from the capital. >> more details are coming out about the nature of the attacks in the northeast.

a suicide bomber was behind the attack and apparently the blast happened a few matters away from the military checkpoint. in relation to where many were killed wednesday night vigilantes supporting the military in operations against boko haram tell us friday morning a contingent of soldiers left the capital of borno state to investigate what happened. eyewitness accounts are also emerging. what we're gerting is a sense of extreme violence, a picture of extreme violence that took place when boko haram attacked. they stormed a mosque where they killed men and boys praying. they went on to burn the corpses of those they killed. they then attacked people in their homes mainly women and children, in some cases gunning down women and setting ablaze many homes and businesses in the area. now, this latest violence will be a huge worry to the new government, who came to power on

a ticket of eliminating boko haram. there's been much diplomatic effort by the new president to work out a strategy to defeat the group involving chad and niger. reports on the attacks will make many feel all the either being made are not felt on the ground if boko haram are still able to launch these attacks. >> boko haram appears to be focusing on smaller towns in northeast nigeria. the nigerian military pushed the fighters out of their stronghold in borno state. in january the group killed up to 2,000 people in the towns of baga and dorna in borno state. twenty people died when a 12-year-old girl plow herself up in a marketplace.

boko haram released video showing the beheadings of two men they accused of being spies. they are believed to be behind the slaughter of 400 people, including children, bodies found in mass graves in april. let's get more on the issue of boko haram with a nigerian senator. thank you for being with us. you've been involved in negotiations between boko haram and the government in the past. you know how they operate. how are they able to gain territory and launch such devastating attacks in the last few weeks? >> >> as you know, the violence and the insurgency has been greek in the last six years, in our in its seventh year.

the initial strategy was them taking over territories and also imposing their version of islamic rule. with a concerted effort between the military and neighboring countries, they were able to push them back and out of most of their strongholds. now, the result is guerilla attacks, raiding towns and villages and then withdrawing back to the desert and disappearing. this is a different kind of war that is porch very challenging. >> he promised to crack down on boko haram. obviously his strategy doesn't seem to be working particular lib as boko haram is upping their attacks in the last few weeks. >> well, it is too early to judge the buhari administration.

he was just two weeks in power. he has done a number of things to address the problem. one is reaching out to neighboring countries and also giving confidence to the people that he is prepared to fight and also doing all you can to see that he boost the morale of the military and also provided what they need to fight. it is unfair to expect results within the next few days. this is something entrenched and going on in the last six years. it is very much impossible to expect him to perform magic within the next few days when he was taking power -- >> -- to try to help with boko haram. in the past, nigeria and chad have had territorial dispute.

how confident are you that these two countries will set aside their historic differences and unit against boko haram? >> the reality on the ground has to bring the two countries together. the countries within the chad region have the common danger, threatening the peace and unity and also the government of this country in the chad region. they now have a common enemy and they have to keep aside their differences and this is what is happening. the activities of the group is seriously undermining within the chad region, so the border issues can come later but for now, they have a common problem which i believe all of them are committed towards bringing it to an end.

>> thank you so much for joining us on the show, nigerian senator in the national assembly. >> it's the last day of campaigning in greece for a referendum that will decide the country's future in europe. huge rallies are planned in central athens by both the yes and no groups. a vote in the yes camp believes greece should accept he tough bailout terms as laid out by international lenders and those voting no are against the bailout, and the austerity measures that come with it. >> this is the ballot paper voters will be given when they head to polling booths sunday. it asks whether a proposal submitted by the european commission the european central bank and international monetary fund should be accepted. voters have the option of taking the yes or no boxes. the bailout issue has divided the greek nation with emotions running high, anti austerity

demonstrations were held outside an e.u. building in athens thursday. >> the concern of the banks must be influential factors for the yes vote. >> yes they must be. don't target that weaver had dire warnings from creditors and other government leaders in europe saying that a no vote means greece ultimately has no place in the euro zone. it's clear that not everyone here is taking those warnings seriously. about four fifths of greeks are polling that they want to stay in the euro zone. three fifth say a no vote will serious affect that status. some are willing to risk that

and vote no. why is that the case? i think there's an indication in the fact that half of all greeks are polled as saying even a no vote won't make any serious impact to soften their creditors' stance towards them. think what this is about for the no camp is preserving caesar in power because they sense that other european governments are trying to out of the them, in other words to manipulate the greek political process but also even more than that perhaps, it is to establish greek sovereignty to assert an opinion in europe and to tell our european powers who are after all greece's creditors that they need to have more of a say in the bailout process but they cannot be cornered the way they are being. i think that's what this is about, sovereignty rather than wealth. >> alexis tsipras is urging his nation to vote no. that will keep his government in

power, but the question is, is all of syriza behind him or is the party divided when it comes to this issue? >> no, i think the party has gone through a great deal of difficulty and their disunity has been apparent especially in the last few weeks. we know that there is a hard line leftwing element within the party that does want to take greece out of the euro zone and back to the drakm after. there's back and forth in the various opinion columns and discussions whether that hard block includes mr. tsipras the prime minister himself. he publicly says he's fighting hard to keep greece within the euro. i think that that is probably oh true because his political legacy would be blackened if he went back on that. he was elected on that basis in january. i don't think he can do an about turn on such a basic promise to the greek people.

the trouble is, though, that because this election result seems that it's going to be very, very close either way whichever way it swings, i think the trouble is that on monday, whether disease da remains in power or not greek society will remain divided, and there will be a verge minority that will be extremely unhappy with the result whatever it is. therefore, i think we're going to again at some point have an enormous internal political debate over austerity sooner or later. >> turning to negotiations on iran's nuclear activities and the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog said there are unresolved questions that tehran has not addressed. western pours and iran are holdion talks over a final deal. a diplomat editor james bays is following the talks in vienna. >> negotiators have already been working around the clock here.

we understand there was one meeting with the lead u.s. goeser and two deputy foreign ministers of iraq that went on until 3:00 a.m. some of the foreign minister's here on thursday have left. european foreign ministers will join in. the french foreign minister said he will be back with his colleagues on sunday evening. what we're hearing is that it's likely that the foreign ministers from the p5 plus one the six countries negotiating with iran will probably stay here from sunday, working through, trying to get a deal. remember, the interim deal has already been extended, extended only until tuesday. so time here is running out. certainly european diplomats don't see any negotiation beyond tuesday. we are in the final part of this

very long process of negotiation to try and find a final deal, a deal for 10 years first and then the period beyond 10 years to deal with iran and making sure on behalf of the p5 plus one their aim that iran has only a civilian nuclear program. >> still a come, a drug scandal in somalia thousands are falling ill and many dying from expired medicine. >> mexican fisherman affected by the gulf of mexico oil spill are calling for compensation. >> shooting his best round of the season. >> syrian army has carried out airstrikes and launched raised in the northern city of aleppo.

the military operation was in response to a major assault by an alliance of rebels in aleppo. activists say hundreds of rockets were fired into government held areas friday. a syrian military source said the attack has been repedal. the government largely controls the west of syria's largest city while different rebel factions are in the east. >> the syrian kurdish fighting force is 50 kilometers from isil's stronghold raqqa. the y.p.g. advance was described as the most serious and symbolic threat faced by isil since it declared so called caliphate. the kurds are the u.s. led coalitions only partners on the ground, and syrian arabs are questions this cooperation. we have this report from the syrian-turkish border. >> they have been expelled from their homes syrian kurds are no longer welcome in isil's capital city.

families moved north to the border town which was under isil's control only two weeks ago. living under size as i will, these kurds were forced to pledge allegiance to the group. after the kurdish fighting force, the y.p.g. advanced. >> they gave us 24 hours to leave or else they would behead us. they are afraid of the kurds and they are worried about losing raqqa city. isil has been digging trenches around the cities perimeter. >> the y.p.g. with the help of j led colation airstrikes closed the main route isil uses to supply raqqa from turkey. it's main strong hold is far from being under siege. the y.p.g. has nolan to advance toward the mainly arab city. the kurds have said any future battle would have to be led by arab force to say avoid ethnic tensions. those in contact with a network of activists who prayed

secretly believe isil can be easily defeated if the coalition cooperates with syrian rebels. >> y.p.g. is not interested in taking the city. there are mainstream syrian opposition groups in the area ready to fight isil in raqqa but need air support. the coalition doesn't seem willing to support them. the coalition only supports the kurds. >> main syrians have questioned the cooperation between the coalition and y.p.g., accusing the kurdish force of threnessing areas they capture of arabs and only fighting isil in territory they consider part of what they call western kurdistan. for now the kurds are treated by the west as the only viable and reliable partner on the ground in syria which is angering arabs who think there is only so much the y.p.g. can or is willing to do. al jazeera on the syria turkish border.

>> the united nations envoy to yemen is still hopeful a ceasefire to the country's conflict can be reached. his comments come after the united states called for a humanitarian halt in fighting during the month of ramadan. on the ground, the fights shows no sign of easing, more airstrikes launched on sanna in the early hours of friday morning. >> one city in yemen has successfully kept the fighting on the outskirts. in the central province, troops and local tribes joined together to fortify positions against houthi forces. we have this report. >> a bustling market is a rare site in yemen these days. ments the hours before the fast is broken during ramadan. there's been heavy fighting near the city and fighters remain vigilant to maintain peace. they call themselves popular resistance forces and said they presented houthi fighters from

closing in on the city. they monitor traffic in and out of the city at check points. >> at the front where fighting goes on, we're still resisting. it's happening 20 kilometers from the city. it's fortified and safe, except for shelling by houthi militia. the power of the popular resistance comes from the yemeni army, stationed to secure the city. thank god, there is also the support of tribes from within and outside. >> tribes warned of a possible advance from houthi fighters. yemeni soldiers were stationed along fighters to defendant the city. that's given crucial fire power and hardware to fight off attacks. many of the provinces in yemen have fallen to forces loyal to formerformer president ali abdullah

saleh. >> the city of mar rib is different from our cities. we have support and anyone lieu tries to attack the city will be defeated. >> houthi fighters have captured some areas in the western parts of marib and the resistance tries to retap occur them. the saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes to target houthi held areas in marib. gunners appear calm for now but there is tension. tighting in the most populated areas, the people continue to hope for peace and prepare for war. al jazeera. >> isil destroyed a famous statue of a lion in the ancient city of palmyra. fighters smashed the figurine.

isil is looting ancient sites across iraq and syria and selling the treasures to raise money for their campaign. >> the world heritage site in northern iraq is now on unesco's endangered list. it is modern day armed groups like isil which now pose a threat. two other ancient cities are also on the unesco endangered list. we have this report. >> 1200 years ago this was the capital of an islamic empire from north africa to central asia. the spiral was an architecture

achievement. the mosque had room for 80,000 worshipers. it echos sound. >> we have big challenges especially in the current unstable security situation. thank god the site is now relatively secure, but it needs maintenance and repair. >> because the capital was abandoned in the ninth century rather than destroyed most of it is still in tact. it is now on the edge of a battleground. isil fighters are now just 20 kilometers from here. a mostly sunni city surrounding one of the holiest sites in shia islam, the shrine. the city has become a staging ground for former shia militias under the command of the iraqi government. they've left their mark. there's evident of target practice inside. although this was once the most glorious city in the world most iraqis don't know it.

now essentially, the only visitors are off duty fighters. asked what was here, mahmoud explains it was once a huge mosque. the iraqi government is trying to continue excavations here and hopes to restore some of the buildings, but doesn't have the money or staff. this was just one of the palaces in what was once a huge city, stretching worth kilometers along the river. it's considered the best preserved of the city of the size of its time. there are parts now that are completely occupied by security forces. >> this capital was built in the golden age of the islamic empire. innovations in art arc techiture and sciences spread from here to other parts of the world. these were baths. water was brought in by pipes from the river and then heated. even before isil, the site was listed as endangered, threatened by military activity and neglect. with fighting on its doorstep,

the mother 80% of the city still buried is protected mostly by earth and sand. al jazeera iraq. >> in iraq, medics say 15 civilians have been killed by government airstrikes in anbar province in fallujah overrun by isil 18 months ago. the wounds of the dead are consistent with the use of barrel bombs. the weapons are crude devices filled with shrapnel that kill indiscriminately. >> a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager shot dead by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank. doctors say the 17-year-old was shot of in the face and chest at the checkpoint near ramallah. witnesses say he was trying to climb the separation wall to enter jerusalem. israeli forces have killed at least 13 palestinians this year. >> thousands of somalis are killed by expired or counterfeit

medicine every year. the drugs come in through many ports and find their way into pharmacies. al jazeera has more from the capital mogadishu. >> he feared reactions to the medicines. she now says she'll never go to hospitals in this city. >> the medicine they gave me nearly killed me. it turned my body into blesters and white marks. i can't feel anything, even if i stepped on fire. >> doctors here say thousands of patients are given fatal expired medicines every year in somalia. the doctor has seen firsthand what these drugs can do to patients. >> expired and fake medicines have killed more than bombs and rockets. they continue to kill thousands. these drugs are silent killers. they are worse than bombs. a bomb kills 10 or 20 people but

these drugs kill hundreds of people and none will hear about it. >> everywhere you look in mogadishu are clinics like this one. pharmacies deny putting patient's liches in danger. >> when they come to us and tell us they have a problem we tell them to go see a doctor. only after that do we sell the medicine. we only sell if they show us a doctor's prescription. >> most people here often go to these pharmacies without a prescription. the lack of proper clinics and hospitals have made it difficult for many to receive treatment. >> more than 20 years of civil war that left somalia no public hospitals. the few private ones operating in the country are either too corroded or expensive for many. the government said that will soon change. >> it has built this new warehouse where donated medicines are stored before distribution to hospitals.

a new punishment for those involved in illegal or fake drugs is before parliament. >> we recently made it compulsory for those importing medicines to register. we have a bill passed by parliament to solve all this issue. >> many doctors and health workers have welcomed the government intervention and attempts. for many other patients, it may have come too late. al jazeera somalia. >> let's take a check on the weather now with rob who's here with news of a heatwave across europe? >> yes spain's been toying with it for a week in the high 40s. yesterday was a hot day. what do you do when it's hot in europe? >> in switzerland you look for a public space if there are squirts of water. if you're four years old you sit on them. it's one way to keep cool for

them at least. this places have a red alert. temperatures in the middle to high thirst. fairly universal throughout the european play. there is an encroachment of a cloud from the atlantic injecting moisture of hot air. in the low countries that will happen over the next day or so. antwerp was about 35 or so. you can keep cool here by finding water and chewing ice. they did. those states are a little cooler. throughout the european plain that's a temporary drop. this is the red picture if you like. if you watch this the next 24 hours, it gets a bit more intense. only the low countries appear to be out of it. even here, i think it will feel hot and steamy, so it's with us for a while. >> still ahead here on the program, we report on the young

victims of china's mass migration from the countryside to the city. >> how a mysterious pregnancy sparked the first of a new era in u.s.-cuban relations. >> one of the nba star players said he is about a leave the miami heat. details coming up in sport. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage all of taylor swift's music videos interviews, and more.

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killing 140 people in northeast nigeria at a mosque. >> in greece, a day of campaigning ahead of a vote that could decide the country's future in the euro zone. >> alexis tsipras happen addressed the nation and says a no vote on sunday doesn't mean greece will leave the euro zone. >> whatever choice we make sunday, there will be nothing to divide us the following day. no one questions our presence in europe. no to a non-viable solution doesn't mean a split rupture with europe. it means continued negotiations for better terms for the people. i call on you to say no to the

blackmail of campaign and fear. i call on you to say no to the rupturing, to those who want to panic and make you make a decision with composure. >> greece is struggling to cope with a record number of migrants. the u.n. refugee agency says so far this year, the number of people crossing the mediterranean is up 83%. that's compared to last year, 2014. we have a report where hundreds of migrants arrive every day. >> they are the first ones to land this night. there was a sigh of relief on the dock. the road was long and difficult. just a few hours ago, they had come from the coast of turkey. the greek coast guard picked them up. as they took their first steps on european soil, several boats

were making their way to the island many undetected. >> turkey is just about four kilometers away, so usually migrants leave in the middle of the night and arrive anywhere an these empty beaches in the early morning hours. >> a group of pakistanis paddle across on a rubber boat fit for a swimming pool in shallow calm waters according to its manufacturer. shortly after another dingy. this time intercepted by an italian ship deployed here as part of the it true tan mission that patrols europe's maritime borders. the journey started from a reef knee camp in peshawar. he walked across turkey for 20 days to reach its shores. next morning again the same scene, a spot on the horizon this time a group of syrians

palestinians and iraqis. they drifted toette beach of a holiday resort. their engine stopped. it's the current that brought them here. their screams of joy woke the tourists. some visibly shaken by what they witnessed. >> that's the picture of a population. nearly 500 people arrived here in a 24 hour span. hundreds more in other islands aroundaround the agean sea. for those fleeing war poverty oppression, it represents the dreams of safety and a better

life. >> british oil giant b.p. reached an $18.7 billion settlement with the united states over the deep water horizon oil spill. american states will be compensated, but mexican fisherman whose life live who said were affected say they've been ignored. they are suing the company in a u.s. court. we have this report from mexico. >> fisherman hernandez heads out to sea. he doesn't expect to catch anything. predictably, his net is empty. >> in all my 50 years of fishing, i've never seen anything like this. there had always been plenty of fish but since 2011, we've seen a decline. it's a disaster and enough to make you cry. >> they blame the shortage on

the 2010 b.p. oil spill. 5 billion-barrel little of oil spill would into the gulf of mexico that summer. u.s. fishermen received $1.8 billion in compensation. mexican fishermen zero. 25,000 mexican fishermen are suing b.p. in a u.s. court asking for $50,000 each. it's the first last against the british company by someone outside the united states. >> we're asking the judge to treat us the same. >> b.p. refused to comment on the case, but fishermen say there is evidence everywhere. >> it's simple. we see dead fish and dolphins with oil all on their insides. >> fishermen long shared these waters with mexico's national oil company. they admit there's been

contamination before, but say it never affected their catch. >> until recently, these waters were so rich, they could go out for a couple hours and bring back a ton of fish, but now it's so hard to catch fish here that some don't bother to go out at all. >> francisco stays onshore motor days. his wife asks him every day if he's caught anything or brought home food. >> she gets upset and says what's wrong we're not going to eat or what? what can i do? >> norberto has two disabled grandchildren to care for on sea or on land. he heads out every day looking for something to bring home. al jazeera mexico. >> the muslim brotherhood in egypt says another member has been killed by security forces.

he was in charge of the brotherhood's development committee. he disappeared two weeks ago. his family said his body had torture marks and was handed over to them by the government. >> the suicide of four siblings in china last month has highlighted the country's poor child welfare record. police say their parents abandoned them to find work elsewhere. we have a report to find out how mass migration for employment is affecting families. >> it's a landscape that offers some of the most beautiful scenery in china but it's also a region now synonymous with tragedy and poverty. this is the house where police say four young children, three as i say terse and a brother committed suicide after month after being abandoned by their parents, both migrant workers. they swallowed pesticide. the youngest was five. their death highlighted the

light of china's so-called left behind children. >> those poor children, what they ate was worse than the food you give to pigs. raw corn every day. no one took care of them. >> she is vague why no one here has raise said the alarm sooner. >> this case is more than poverty. it is the issue of child welfare in china and raises a number of troubling questions. how is it possible for four children to live in this house for so long without anyone, a neighbor a teacher at the local school the police, local government officials not realizing what was going on. >> one of the reasons there's simply nothing unusual about children living apart from their parents in today's china. the two grandchildren live with her because her son works hundreds of kilometers away. she says their mother left five years ago to escape the poverty

all around them. >> she went back to her hometown. she thought life was too hard and poor here. she doesn't want to come back. >> poverty is a sensitive issue in china which is why local government officials were soon on to us, following our every movement. they were worried because the president had been in this same province a few days earlier telling people that poverty was nothing to fear. we were allowed to visit the village school. out of 93 students, 20 live with relatives, grandparents mostly. strict rules to control the flow of people mean they only see their parents once a year. before we talked to the teacher our minder spoke to her. >> it is not a big problem because motor of the children can talk to their parents by

phone once a day. in the worst case, it's once a week. >> a poster with an urgent message builds up confidence to battle poverty. in the city, they're constructing factories and offices that in theory could one day provide jobs that could help keep local families together. the deaths of four children last month is a reminder of why such an investment can't come soon enough. al jazeera in southwest china. >> nepal is one of 20 countries with law that is discriminate against people with lepras.

many call her the filinger lady. >> i lived in a tiger den for a year and a half. there was nothing to eat. i survived on what little the villagers gave me. there was no wood to light fire. they wouldn't give me water. i kept surviving. i just would not die. >> this is the oldest center in nepal that helps those with lepracy. many have had to endure were isolation and shame. >> muchacha changed in nepal. leprosy is treatable. there is a bill that bars even recovered patients from marrying. >> drug therapy makes sure that the disease won't spread to

others. nepal has been effective in controlling the disease but with some districts bordering india still vulnerable. more needs to be done to reduce social stigma. >> people hide the disease. they do that not like to show off the disease. they are a continuous source in the society to transfer the disease. >> activists lobbied members of parliament to revise the bill. for now it seems to be working. >> i visited the hospital. i used to think it was transmitted by touch but found later it's not. like me, almost all of my colleagues in parliament understand that you can prevent transmission with medication and leprosy is 100% curable yet the

lobbyist have a discriminatory provision. >> after years of facing social rejection, this couple has found a roof over their heads and a community to rely on. >> the renewal of diplomatic ties between the u.s. and cuba follows two years of secret negotiations with a prisoner swap. one of them was a cuban spy hernandez. we have the story. >> the man you see arriving in havana seems an unlikely central character in a drama that changed diplomatic history. cuban intelligence officer hernandez had been sentenced by a miami court to two life terms. the last thing he expected was to suddenly arrive home to a hero's welcome. >> i learned about it in december 16, the day before.

hernandez spent the last 16 years in u.s. maximum security prisons, a cuban spy implicated in the killings of four american pilots shot down by cuban fighter jets. his wife had repeatedly been denied a visa to travel to california to visit him in prison. cubans were dumbfounded when they saw that she was nine months pregnant when her husband arrived. >> i had frozen my eggs in anticipation when the time came, it might be too late. >> his name means jewel, born shortly after her father's return to cuba six months ago. what no one knew was she was conceived as a diplomatic gesture of good will. the u.s. government allowed her to undergo fertilization treatment in panama with her husband's sperm flown in from prison in california, a small part of top secret negotiations leading to a startling announcement.

>> i've instructed secretary kerry to immediately begin discussions with cuba to reestablish diplomatic relations severed since january of 1961. >> two years earlier, both governments had begun exploratory talks. cuba demanded the release of its agents as a condition for moving forward. the freedom of the cuban intelligence officers and an america contractor imprisoned in cuba, alan gross. >> for us, it was big news personally, that we not even realize the consequence that it might have. >> hernandez's release has outraged many in florida's exile community. at home, he's treated as a hero, still loyal to his government, even after spending 16 years in prison. >> i see myself trying to recover the time with my family,

my little girl and my wife and the rest of my family, and i see myself serving my country, which is my only goal, my only dream. >> a country that is ending the half a century old cold war with its northern neighbor, a landmark decision, in which the couple and their new baby inadvertently played a role. >> the u.s. president renews his push to be get the count ribs lower paid workers a pay rise. >> in sport, one of the strikers in world football has a new club. we'll tell you who he joined in the next few minutes.

>> u.s. president barack obama is pushing through legislation to help the lowest paid americans. the u.s. congress is refusing to raise the minimum wage, saying it would affect local business. patty coal has the story. >> the people who make the least, generally working in restaurants, in the shops cut the grass they usually get paid by the hour. if they work more than 40 hours the law says they get overtime, called time and a half. for example the minimum wage is $7.25, overtime jumps the hourly rate to almost $11 an hour. it makes a difference. unless the worker has the title of manager. most of those people like

joseph, don't qualify for overtime. >> i was doing the same job the sales associates were doing i just wasn't getting paid for all the hard work i put in. >> u.s. president barack obama is promising to change that, writing a new rule that says any manager who makes less than $50,000 a year gets overtime. >> this is an issue of basic fairness. if you work longer, you work harder, you should get paid for it. >> they cheered him on in wisconsin, but the business community is less than excited. >> it's going to result in fewer hours for workers fewer benefits for workers and the elimination of lower management positions that are the way up the ladder for lots of workers. >> the secretary of commerce tells al jazeera it is time for a change. >> the president is very focused with this change in rules on trying to elevate incomes and

make sure that our inequality gap is narrowed. businesses will adopt. we know that. in the end i think there will be a greater gain than there is a loss. >> the change won't go into effect until next year, so it will be sometime before you know if in trying to help the lowest paid workers the president got them more money or fewer jobs. al jazeera washington. >> time for sports news knew with robin. >> both the men's and women's world number once are in tennis action on friday. djokovic plays in round three followed by serena williams facing british number one heather watson. the drive on court one, french open champion is taking on.

striker signed on a season long loan from monaco. he spent last season with manchester united where he only managed four goals in 29 premier league appearances. he will join up with former teammates. >> new coach said it's time for the italian team to be feared again. he's been presented to the media by the club president. the 18 time champions contend for last season. he is the fourth coach in a year and a half. >> we will be a bunch of devils and our colors will be red as the devil and black is the fear we will give our rivals. we have to work hard and be real professionals. >> tiger woods has shot his best round of the season as he continues preparings for the open championship in scotland in two weeks time. woods has been in action at the green bay classic in west

virginia in the united states. shooting four under par, 66 in his opening round. good enough for a share of 12th place. he's four shots off the leader. it goes a long way to restoring confidence in the american after his worst ever professional round at the memorial last month. >> it was a pretty good day. i felt like a left of lot of opportunities out there too. i hit the ball better than my score indicates gave myself a lot of looks and just to make enough. overall, i'm only two back. the nature of this golf course is soft and the guys are going to go get it. >> expecting this year says tour of france to be the toughest, the time trial is saturday.

contador won the gee row talia in may. >> i will try. i know that it's very, very difficult. i work very, very hard in the last six months, and ok, after that we are looking to the road. >> rattled by pakistan. offering resistance on day one the home side reaching 272-8. the series is tied at 1-1. >> dwyane wade promised the heat

are going to be better next season. the shooting guard who's been with the franchise 12 years now agreed with a $20 million deal to stay with the team another season. he is a three time nba champion. he averaged 21.5 points in 62 games. he believes the heat are destined for the playoffs this time around. >> all of the day's big sports are on our website at aljazeera.com/sport. you can get more. that is where we are going to leave it for now. plenty more for later thanks for watching everybody. >> what is the connection between an ancient tower from a famous play by shakespeare and the island of cypress? stay tuned as caroline malone gives us the answer. >> greek and turkish in a rare

show of unity on the divided island performing shakespeare for an audience celebrating the restoration project. work involved specialists from both sides of the island. >> we actually worked together. there isn't anything that we can't do together and succeed. >> a fellow tower was named after the play, which included scenes from the historic site. it started to crumble. the republic of cypress was formed after british troops left the side 45 years ago. the island has been divided after a coup in 1974. despite the political differences, both sides recognize the site's cultural and historic importance. >> this was a very big chance for us, because the tower is a value of cypress not north or

south. we are sharing it together. >> as delicates from the european union which funded the project gathered in cypress the leader spoke of progress in peace talks saying it may be only a matter of months before differences with the turkish side are resolved. >> talks are taking place in a very, very positive atmosphere, gives us a new scope for communication and we celebrate the rare example of cooperation in the common interest. >> the tower is open to the public. emergency measures patched up what has been neglected but the project grew, focusing on the importance of saving a part of the island's past for future generations. al jazeera. >> art for peace. stay with us here on al jazeera. we've got another full bulletin of news for you right at the top of the hour.

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