>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha here is what is coming up, in the next 60 minutes u.s. air strikes kill several afghan soldiers and an update from kabul. u.s. defense secretary in israel to bolster ties and aftermath of the iranian nuclear deal. greek banks finally open after a three-week shut down but with several restrictions in place. >> in sports blatter set to name

the date when his successor as fifa president will be elected and could decide the future of fifa's governing body. ♪ but first we begin with breaking news turkish media reporting ten people have been i'll killed in a large explosion in turkey at a cultural center just north of the border with syria. at least 20 people have been wounded. we will bring you more on this story as soon as we get it here at al jazeera. we will move on to other news and u.s. forces in afghanistan are investigating what appears to be a mistaken attack they say which killed at least seven afghan soldiers and six others are thought to have been injured and u.s. helicopters attacked afghan army checkpoints in the district in an area known for

its heavy taliban presence. jennifer glasse has this update from kabul. >> reporter: that incident in the province happened just a couple hours after dawn early morning and police authorities tell us that it was american u.s. helicopters that carried out an attack on two afghan army checkpoints. obviously some sort of mistake, maybe some sort of communication area that area is a very heavy fighting area and taliban has a big presence there and this is one of the areas the taliban use to transit through and understand after this attack by u.s. forces on afghan forces mistakenly we say the americans are investigating that right after this happened the taliban launched a ground offensive in the same area. it is a very heavy fighting area. this of course is the first friendly fire incident since nato forces gave control to afghan forces at the beginning

of the year and the friendly fire and this is not just in this province but in areas around the country. u.s. secretary of defense ashton carter met with counterpart in tel aviv and thanked carter for washington's continued contribution to israel's military and there have been tensions since the allies since the nuclear deal with iran and western powers and carter says he doesn't expect to persuade israel to drop opposition to the agreement. let's cross over live joining us from west jerusalem so when ash carter says that he has no expectations of changing the firm israeli opposition to the iran nuclear deal and some describing it as syria perhaps what is he hoping to achieve there? >> mr. carter being very blunt that he does not expect to

change any real opinion here but what he does hope to achieve during this visit here in israel as you rightly point out he is meeting with his counterpart who is the israeli defense minister and is expected to meet with israeli prime minister tuesday morning when he is attempting to do is to deepen military ties with israel to try to massage or soothe any kind of concerns israel may have from a security point of view. it's very telling from the u.s. the fact that they would send the defense secretary here to israel and not the secretary of state or foreign minister if you will to the country. as we know john kerry was sitting in the room when those negotiations were taking place, the most senior diplomate the u.s. has to offer and somebody who is familiar with israeli leaders and most notably netanyahu after working together and the fact he is not here trying to change minds is a clear sign the u.s. simply

doesn't believe it will and they now try to take a different track with israel to soothe security concerns and it might come in the form of some sort of military aid. we are hearing that that is in the pipeline. but what is interesting is the prime minister mr. netanyahu has criticized the idea that the u.s. would offer israel more arms in light of this deal with iran saying if this was a good deal in the way that the u.s. puts it why would israel need more arms. so lots of tension but again as we have been saying the u.s. defense secretary here to deepen military ties and not smooth over diplomatic issues. >> what sort of track is he taking with other countries that have also been opposed to this deal with iran? we know he leaves israel and moves to other countries in the region. >> reporter: that's right. he will be visiting jordan neighboring jordan and move to saudi arabia and let's start

with jordan where he will meet after the prime minister and the concern of the nuclear deal is more specific on syria which it shares a long border with and has a large syrian refugee issue and more importantly jordan is also dealing with an i.s.i.l. crisis with the state of iraq and levante which it has been carrying out air strikes with. the fact that jordan has jurity concerns it also has wider concerns about iran and the role iran plays in syria so the u.s. defense secretary will no doubt try to assure jordan and indeed the leadership there the u.s. will be there with jordan as it carries out these military exercises in regions where iran has influenced and with saudi arabia it's a bit more complicated and saudi arabia is a very strong ally of the united states almost equally strong as its relationship with israel but saudi arabia's concern is a bit

different and it sees iran as its chief rival in the region and says that iran is a destabilizing force in places like yemen and places like iraq and southern lebanon and indeed syria and saudi arabia's concern is by lifting these sanctions and effectively giving iran access to 100 billion and allowing the economy to come out of these punishing sanctions that it will become an even stronger force within the region so the u.s. defense secretary no doubt will try to calm fears that this is an issue. >> okay thank you for that update from west jerusalem. now banks have reopened in greece for the first time in three weeks but it's not business as usual. bank customers are no longer limited to 60 euros a day and now able to withdrawal up to 420 euros per week but they are not able to cash checks and only able to deposit them and people will not be able to transfer cash abroad with their credit or cash cards only make purchases.

the athens stock market is still closed until further notice and value-added tax has risen, making a cup of coffee or a bus ride even more expensive and mohamed is at a bank in athens and he sent this report. >> reporter: with banks having finally opened in greece after more than three weeks after being closed here in downtown athens crowds that we have seen have so far been small, lines have so far been short and yet there is a sense of relief. a population that is glad the banks are finally reopened and they can finally go back to their banks, that they can pay bills within their banks and some people can get atm cards they didn't have before to access money in an easy fashion and we have heard there has been a real sense of concern here in greece the past few weeks that certain people didn't have access to their bank safety deposit boxes. there was a fear that perhaps the contents of those safety

deposit boxes might be taken or seized, that people wouldn't have access to them again. so that is one of the things we have heard from people today is they are going to their banks to check to make sure the contents of their safety deposit boxes are there and safe and some people will take the contents of the boxes back home with them and how much distrust there is in greece of the financial institutions and yet as i said before at this hour a sense of calm. we are not seeing really any consternation from the people who gathered outside of the banks, the cues have been orderly and people have gone in the bank and as of now everything seems calm. the mainlanding point in europe for migrants crossing from turkey and many are from war-ravaged parts of the world and hoping to reach northern europe on foot and this is from the greece macedonia border. >> reporter: they are marching by the hundreds under the baking sun. on the roads and in the fields.

step by step they reached the macedonia border and as they go along they form groups that become bigger and bigger. >> translator: i didn't expect it to be so difficult but now i have to go on. i left everything behind. i'm doing this for my daughter. >> reporter: greece in the midst of its own financial crisis has no means to provide assistance so refugees and migrants rely on each other for support and solidarity. the last stretch is along the rail tracks and this is where the difficulties begin. hundreds already waiting in this make-shift camp with no hygiene facilities and one tap of running water. macedonia police patrol the border and are often heavy handed. he is 63 and traveling alone. he was beaten when he tried to sneak across the border. he had been waiting for four

days. >> translator: my son needs treatment and i'm doing this so he can join me. >> reporter: recently macedonia has allowed refugees and migrants to transit through the country for three days. but they have to wait until they are allowed in. so throughout the night more people have arrived and some have already left. they are organizing themselves in groups hoping that at some point the macedonia police will let them through. there are many afghans, some pakistans, egyptians and iraqis but most are syrians, people who left their families behind. >> translator: we have been here 14 15 hours and slept on the ground and no water and clothes are dirty and used to have a good life but look at me now, it has been a month and a half and i'm sleeping on the streets and sometimes people come and help us or smile at us and makes us feel like human

beings. >> translator: i was afraid to bring my family here. i didn't want to put them at risk. nobody knows what is ahead and hear about bandits and gangs and can go through it alone and won't let anything happen to children. >> reporter: the groups are let into macedonia. but here starts a new struggle to get a transit permit. and then the journeys continue through serbia and hungry before they hope reaching germany. al jazeera, on the greek, macedonia border. >> reporter: ministers will be discussing the migrant problem at a meeting in brussels and charlie is there to see what is on the agenda and what they are hoping to achieve. >> since the eu migrant crisis emergency response in april the

relocation of 40,000 asylum seekers on the agenda and certainly not a priority, no consensus on how many will be taken by which member state and that is a big problem. back in june european leaders failed to come to agreement and scrapped a system of quotas so the counsel suggested it could be done on a voluntary basis but not enough volunteers and deadline has arrived and this is a real crisis and a union founded on solidarity and member states supposed to stand together on the challenge of migration but as we can see from the report and what we know in italy, italy and greece with struggling economies are carrying the burden but each day more migrants arriving and a stress on rescue centers and staff over stretched and the situation is dire so we are hoping today we will see decisive action from the eu. >> that is the question and when

you speak of this you see thousands crossing the mediterranean and with voluntary or not will they relieve the burden on countries like greece and italy? >> sadly, no. just looking at the numbers 40,000 are up for discussion today. now, the international organization of migration estimates some 150,000 successfully crossed the mediterranean so far this year in addition to 170,000 in 2014 and 320,000 potential asylum seekers is just a drop in the ocean. and that is the problem. the eu is just using emergency measures. there is no permanent mechanism in place to deal with vast numbers of people crossing in and fleeing war or persecution or striving to find a better life and that is the problem here, just fire fighting on the issue. leaders have been concentrating on how to keep people out or deport them rather than on

finding ways to really accommodate the genuine asylum seekers among them. >> charlie reporting from brussels. just ahead on al jazeera news hour. >> his plan is for an entire nation for eight long years into desperation. >> reporter: a victim of chad's former dictator prepares to give evidence in the first trial of its kind and later hear from a boy who spent months in an i.s.i.l. training camp before he eventually escaped and coming up, in sport could an amateur player up set this golfer's attempts of the third major title of the year? ♪ so proceedings have begun for the child of chad's former president and marked the first time an african country is prosecuting the former leader of

another and accused of crimes against humanity and torture. and nicholas hawk met one victim in the capitol. >> reporter: he has been waiting 25 years for this day. he is about to face the man he believes is responsible for his torture. he has rehearsed the moment time and time again and he knows exactly what he will say and how he will act. one look at former chad president and the memories come flooding back. the electric shocks the choking, and all the faces of people he was forced to bury during his four-year confinement under his rule. >> translator: his plan is for an entire nation for eight long

years into desperation and violent darkness. >> reporter: chad's truth commission says 40,000 people were killed and 200,000 tortured when he was this power in the 1980s. most were chad arabs and political opponents. the united states and france supported him even as he turned his country into a police state. many of his most feared tortured got training in the united states. >> reporter: he was over thrown in 1990 and fled the country. for 16 years victims of torture and campaigners tried to bring him to court while he lived quietly in sinagal. his wife never suspected he would face justice. >> translator: we had an agreement, we came here to get asylum, protection from the state of sinagal but those who supported us turned against us

and we feel betrayed. >> reporter: now charged with crimes against humanity in the african chambers and a court created by the african union and sinagal and hundreds expected to testify including this man. an african judged by africans, away from the hague's international criminal court. at stake here is the possibility to set a precedent making universal justice accessible to all on this continent. >> i think what this trial shows more than anything else is that it's possible for victims and their supporters with tenacity to actually get a dictator to court. >> reporter: the trial will not erase the horrors. but something has changed. and perhaps in the process this

man may find some peace. nicholas hawk al jazeera, dacar. this trial does end a 20-year campaign to bring him to justice. he fled to sinagal and lived freely until arrest two years ago and followed for order and international court of justice told them to prosecute or extradite him and them and the eu created the extraordinary african chambers that is able to bring him to trial because of a principle called universal jurisdiction which allows national courts to prosecute serious crimes even when they are committed in another country. let's get perspective on this and speak to an african affairs analyst and the former director of the economic community of west after dan state and joining us on the telephone and will this trial set a precedent for future trials in africa as well as justice in africa by

africans? >> indeed. it is a very historic moment in the legal history of africa because it's the first time a former african escaped the trial, all africa by africans in order to set a precedent and it also is an attempt to avoid africans extradited in the hague in the international court. >> speaking of the hague what does this mean for the relationship between the icc and the african union? >> the fact that the unions are happy and you only judge people who have been shunned by their own community and african counties sending people there and other people have not done

it. it seems africans complaining against the fact that africans are being tried and others like george bush george bush and say they committed crimes and being judged and in sinagal regarding the country. [inaudible] okay, thank you for speaking to us, just to point out what you are looking at the screen is that special court that has been created in sinagal where the former chad president is being tried at that court that is set up in dakar in sinagal and breaking news from turkey and hearing ten have been killed in the large explosion that took place at a cultural center which

is just north of the border with syria. take a look at these pictures and show the aftermath of that explosion. according to witnesses that attack was targeting volunteers who had come from istanbul and heading to nearby kobani and 20 others have been wounded this that explosion. syrian activists are saying i.s.i.l. has banned private internet access in its syrian base and say the ban has forced residents and even its own fighters to use internet cafes where they can be monitors. a leaflet has been distributed warning them to cut connection in four days. when i.s.i.l. fighters in iraq last year killed a man and enslaved many women as well as girls but the boys were treated differently and forced them to convert to islam and trained them to fight and kill. victoria has one boy's story.

>> reporter: this is an i.s.i.l. training camp where children are shown how to use weapons and are given religious education. this boy who doesn't want to be identified was taken to a camp like this after i.s.i.l. fighters took over his town in northern iraq. >> translator: they told us how to decapitate people and told us about quarn and attack and weapons and played games with our minds saying we would not go back to our families in iraq. >> reporter: 10s of thousands were forced to leave homes in iraq after their towns were seized by i.s.i.l. fighters and some survived what u.n. says attempted genocide by escaping to the mountain and thousands of others captured and women and children were either trafficked as sex slaves and some were sent to i.s.i.l. training camps.

>> translator: once they showed us the be heading of pilots and others with attacks and other executions everything was there, we saw how they were shooting, they brought it to us every week and they showed us. >> reporter: this boy was sent to a camp in the syrian city of iraqua and he and others were told to practice be headings on dolls. >> translator: they brought dolls and told us how to hold the sword and how to chop off the head because they said they are not good. >> reporter: after five months at the camp he escaped along with his brother but they say many others are still there victims of this seemingly never ending conflict victoria with al jazeera. well a ship has reportedly been sunk off the coast of libya, airforce commanders from tabrook says two ships attacked because they were carrying fighters and weapons and no confirmation of a strike near

benghazi. four italian workers kidnapped in west of the country and sources told al jazeera they were taken to a town which is under the control of one of the armed groups. italy's foreign ministry says they were abducted near a compound of an italian oil and gas country in that region. on to a check of the weather with everton and floods in india. >> we had a few weeks off with a lull in the monsoon rains but those rains have returned with a vengance and massive clouds and crop of thunder heads making their way and pushing to the west and seeing heavy rain and that rain started to push its way up into a good part of pakistan and seeing intense rainfall over the next couple of days and up to the northeast of india and further heavy showers and more of the same going through wednesday. it is the southwest monsoon and

see how the winds go from southwest up towards the northeast and that heavy rain will continue to drive its way across myanmar and beyond and china seeing rain and pushing in the south china sea and southern areas of china seeing really wet weather. 109 millimeters of rain in the province just to the east of hong kong and 196 millimeters of rain in 24 hours here and the wind side of the island look at that 390 millimeters of rain here in the one we have seen some flooding and that flooding will continue, heavy downpours through the southeast of india and expect wet weather in hong kong and push up into taiwan. >> everton much more to come on the al jazeera news hour including havana and washington about to open respective entities but some cubans finding it hard to overcome 50 years of

distrust. i'm rob mcbride in hong kong with the bruce lee legend that is still larger than life nearly 40 years after he died. and in sport find out why this football coach was getting so excited with the gold cup. ♪

♪ you're with the al jazeera news hour and reminder of the top stories at least ten people have been killed in a large explosion in turkey and happened at a cultural center north of the border with syria. according to witnesses the attack targeted volunteers who were heading to nearby kobani

for relief work and u.s. forces in afghanistan investigating what appears to be a mistaken attack which killed at least seven afghan soldiers and police in the province which is a taliban stronghold says u.s. helicopters attacked afghan army checkpoints and defense secretary ash carter is there for agreements with iran and the prime minister says the deal won't prevent iraq from building nuclear weapons. let's get more on one of our top stories and telling you about the air strike in afghanistan that killed at least seven soldiers crossing over and joining us live from kabul and the founder of afghanistan center for research and policy studies and the district governor saying that the strike was likely a mistake due to bad coordination in that area. how do you explain that? >> well these kind of mistakes

have happened in the past. if we remember the past several years the u.s. military bombed not only mistakenly afghan forces but also some of the coalition partners in afghanistan and again today it's a reminder that the communication between the afghan security forces and the american forces are not counting mistakes. >> between the forces and afghan forces forces. >> well indeed because these kinds of mistakes should be avoided and first years of coalition president in afghanistan it was acceptable because there was a little coordination in afghan security forces were not very professional at that time but now we have professional security forces and this communication is a reminder of these kind of mistakes can happen and this is certainly

another pressure on the afghan government because the afghan government has to explain this to the afghan people as well as the afghan security forces. and the kind of mistakes continue and take the life of afghan soldiers by the coalition partners. >> and you know i'm sure this, in fact, is not acceptable to the factuallys families of victims who have been killed not only this but incidents you refer to in the past, when these mistakes as they are calling them occur, how is there accountability, is any one prosecuted? how do the families get justice? >> well this is a bad time for the national unity government because the national unity government has been under heavy political pressure in the past several months because of the insurgent attacks in many provinces in afghanistan because

of economic recession and now the afghan government has to explain this to the afghan people and to the families of afghan soldiers because the military is not in good shape right now because a few days and a couple of weeks ago the afghan minister of defense failed to gain the confidence of the afghan parliament so they are ten months after the coalition, the first integration of the new president still don't have a defense minister and afghan security forces have been having difficult months because of the taliban and issues and challenges and this is on the top of a long list of issues. >> just very briefly speaking of the taliban when this happens in that area we understand that the taliban actually moved in and launched attacks on the ground, these are the reports that came in to us but how much of an upper hand does this give the taliban then? >> well this is indeed because

of heavy pressure from the taliban the afghan security forces have been demanding the american forces for air support and this is the kind of mistakes that could under mine this kind of cooperation that is much needed because without support the afghan security forces are struggling and overwhelmed by the number of attacks from the taliban. this is happened not far from kabul and the province is just 20 kilometers south of kabul so this is very bad time for afghan security and on one hand the afghan security forces are demanding support from the u.s. military on the other hand these kinds of mistakes under mine this kind of cooperation. >> thank you for joining us from kabul. now to the start of a new era in relations between the united states and cuba for the first time in 54 years cuba opening the doors to its embassy in the u.s. capitol and u.s. embassy is

back in business in havana after ties were restored and finding out what cubans think of the dramatic changes now underway. >> reporter: these fortified walls were built when cuba was still a spanish colony a testament for a country that was born feeling under siege. in the 1700s it was european and pirate attacks and more resent times from the united states. remembers all too welcoming here with her students to help build this bomb shelter, one of hundreds constructed in havana in the last 20 years. >> translator: the same way they bombed i ran and iraq we felt we had to protect ourselves from possible attacks from the united states. >> reporter: that is why the renewal of diplomatic relations with the enemy has generations of cubans have seen the united states is a long-awaited game changer. >> translator: it's a way of bringing us a little bit closer together after being separated

so long. every cuban has a relative living in the united states so what is happening now makes us feel very happy so that we will never have to resort to this again. >> reporter: in historic terms it was only yesterday that the deployment of soviet missiles to cuba at the height of the cold war brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. this was built in the 1960s and it's all that is left of a lookout post used by cuba's coast guard and would stand here watch night and day in case there was an invasion of the united states by sea and now the only thing that you see are people looking towards the united states but they are just simply fishing. this week's renewal of diplomatic relations does not erase political differences but psychologically it's like a

curtain is lifted. >> translator: no one better prepared to be real brothers you will see. >> reporter: but for getting 50 years of hostilities is not so easy especially for people like this 79-year-old president of the neighborhood cdr or committee for the defense of the revolution says that she doesn't trust the americans. >> translator: to begin with they have not lifted the embargo against cuba nor returned guantanamo to us and we are renewing ties with civilized people. >> reporter: clearly turning this building into a u.s. embassy does not mean that cuba has a friend across the florida straits but it does mean they no longer have an enemy. i'm with al jazeera, havana. a kidnapped soldier has been released by farc rebels in columbia 24 hours before a ceasefire due to begin and was

captured on the border of ecuador to end the longest running civil war. the president of nigeria on his way to the white house for the fight against boko haram and corruption high on the agenda and what else do they hope will come out of the meeting with barack obama? we have that story from abuja. >> reporter: the husband and brother were called by boko haram a couple of years ago. she fled with her six children and two grandchildren here to this camp for the displaced in abuja and she says she is happy nigerian president is traveling to the united states to meet president obama to discuss how to defeat boko haram fighters. >> we want them to give us peace peace.

and they are working upside down no work no anything nothing, nothing. >> reporter: obama and bahair will talk about helping people displaced by boko haram but first many areas destroyed by the armed group will have to be rebuilt before people can think of going home. during the presidential campaign earlier this year bohair says he would defeat boko haram being president but there have been attacks by the group and killed hundreds and he is expected to ask obama for help. >> going with a wish list a shopping list that i will present to the american president to help nigeria battle and not be in the area of deploying troops or things like that but intelligence equipment and that kind of help. >> reporter: some say u.s. is in a difficult position with

military equipment by nigeria and the law providing assistance to forces that says violates hooum human rights and says the u.s. government already provides what it calls meaningful assistance. some are critical of the trip because president bahair have not formed a government or chosen ministers. >> we still have huge gaps in terms of getting a government started and you expect a visit of this nature would talk about issues issues. >> reporter: there is a feeling other important issues including the fight against corruption the falling price of oil and power shortages may not be properly addressed at the meeting. but for the many displaced by boko haram improving security should be the number one issue at the meeting and say without

it nigeria can't develop or move forward, al jazeera, abuja. the drafting of a new constitution has provoked protests in nepal and people are furious that the government is blaming april's earthquake for shorting consulting process from 15 days to 2 and the constitution started in 2006 that is when rebels signed a peace deal to end the ten-year-old civil war and 2008 they wanted to abolish this and become a republic and says they will be left out of the new constitution. a supreme court advocate in kathmandu and says people have not been given enough time to raise objections raising to citizenship and federalism. >> i think leaders agree in the first year there will be preventing the cities and means you can take the cities with a name of mother and put the province on article 12 that you

need both mother and father and it's one step backward for the constitution which is quite regressive for that point of view. i was there and i saw that the parliamentary assembly member and collecting views in the centers and with heavy security like i saw former prime minister collecting views in the big security in the area. the former people have one or two deaths in their area and have not been in the process to come into the constitutional provision so it's like a very fast check of one and two and how can they comment on that so this is from the process point of view as well. they said sorry and the

first time it said sorry to pows since the war ended 70 years ago and rob reynolds has more from los angeles. >> reporter: an apology seven decades after the fact. >> translator: today we apologized remorse for tragic event in our past. >> reporter: japan's industrial giant mitsubichi used slave labor during the second world war and the first to say sorry one of the last survivors of the labor of the mines 94-year-old james murphy was there to accept the apology. >> for 70 years since the war ended the prisoners of war who worked for these japanese companies have asked for something very simple they asked for an apology and this is

listening very carefully to the statement of apology and found it very very sincere. >> reporter: murphy was capture captured when japan over road it and shipped with approximately 12000 other pows to japan where they were forced to work. and the liberation day for pows at the mine and that is murphy sitting on top of the wall and he doesn't like to talk much about his treatment at the hands of japanese guards but 95-year-old former pow lester tiny who was there for the corporation says the treatment was beyond brutal. >> didn't give us medical care. they would beat you in the coal mine. the civilians would beat you if you didn't work fast enough. if you happened to say i don't want to work too hard they would

turn you over to the guards the guards would punish you. many cases they killed you. >> reporter: japanese government apologized for miss treatment of pows several years ago, of 900 men who labored and suffered with murphy he and one other are alive. if you have a message to your buddies who passed on what would you say? >> i would say rest quietly, it's over, we did get an apology. >> reporter: wounds of war healed at last rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. right after the break you will find out what turned bruce lee into a konfoo ikon and star and a new exhibition has answers plus. on the island here their football team is ranked last in the world and fifa has given them over one million dollars and among other things to build the stadium and people are asking why. that story coming up.

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♪ now to a master of martial arts bruce lee died 42 years ago but his legend lives on in a new exhibition in hong kong rob mcbride has been there to take a look. >> reporter: his statute overlooking hong kong's harbor is always a big draw just as his legacy exists from a generation ago. at a fighting gym where his particular brand of kunfoo is

practiced they emulate his hallmark lightning moves. >> he is an icon of kunfoo. >> reporter: ricky fong is a master who learned his skill from a master who learned directly from bruce lee and provides a living league not only with unique fighting style lee developed and also the accompanying philosophy. >> the life and work and how to raise up as a human being. >> reporter: jeff chin has that philosophy from since seeing the first bruce lee movie in san francisco. like many of his generation he faced discrimination but lee taught him it was suddenly okay to be chinese-american. >> although that period was short, it was this 1973 it was like magic, like overnight

chinese became the big man on campus. >> reporter: coming to hong kong for opening of exhibition hundreds of exhibits chart the all too brief career of lee, from the autographed marshal arts handbook in 1963 through his eventual break in the international movies that made him famous ten years later and a testimony to the struggles of being a chinese actor in america, among the exhibits for the green hor net, the first role is the pay scale saying despite being a costar he was one of the lowest in the cast. fighting on screen fighting off screen, he continues to inspire in different ways. rob mcbride, al jazeera, hong kong. time for the sports news with andy. >> thank you so much. world futbol body set to

announce the latest plan to built corrupt reputation and blatter expected to name the date when his successor will be chosen. seven fifa executives arrested two months ago as u.s. looks into money corruption and money laundering and blatter said he would be standing down after 17 years in the top job just four days after being reelected and correspondence lee weldings is there where the fifa meeting is taking place and blatter to speak in an hour's time and just how tense is this likely to have been and is blatter definitely going to step down? >> i have no doubt at all that the meeting is extremely tense and i spoke to a key figure to push through reforms before the meeting started and premeeting on sunday and likely to get done but expecting it to be done by now and said these things with

fifa and doing it a long time and they are never easy and where we expect already to have word from fifa about if reforms have gone through or a date for the new presidential election we have to wait a little longer and you asked about blatter it would be a huge surprise if he were to in any way try to carry on. i think this is now being over blown because mr. blatter wants to go on his own face and stop humiliation but many in the executive committee want him out straight away and there is a chance he will step down at any moment but looks like they will probably have to wait a little longer and december would seem the most likely date for the election of a new man. it might spill in the new year and this is what they are discussing because the date is a quite difficult one to nail down. >> in terms of that succession could you wait for the man to replace blatter? >> this is the intriguing thing

and it was always going to be he who replaced blatter and blatter remains on promise in 2015 and why the falling out and is he going to throw his hat in the ring and i think he is waiting for certainty and wants to be sure he will win any election perhaps against the candidate from outside of futbol from a figurehead and not straightforward and the talk is he is getting support and not just europe but needs support from africa as well conceivably to be sure that he can go from becoming european futbol leader to world futbol leader. >> likely somebody outside of the world of futbol they can stand president or perhaps over see some of these reforms that blatter is due to announce? >> i think it's sensible personally but it's a genuine possibility and i have been told over the past few weeks there

have been efforts to try and persuade the right person to step in the meet. aside from that the change fifa organization use the name but i think that that might be a bit farfetched. but the we are looking at that character and someone who comes from outside of futbol and not tainted by years of corruption in fifa and if people are not guilty from the executive committee they are tainted by it and if it was persuaded to come forward that would be a challenge if he decided to go for it. >> reporter: at the meeting in zurich and plenty more through the day. fifa handed out 1 billion dollars in the past few years to country whose have little hope of ever competing at a world cup, the money is meant to build infrastructure and promote the game and also helps leaders buy loyalty from member association and we report from the caribbean island.

>> reporter: welcome to the caribbean island nation. many here call it paradise because of the white sand beaches and turquoise waters and fishing and sailing for 16,000 people who live here it's part of life for many. the national futbol team is ranked the worst in the world by fifa rankings and has been 15 years since they last won an official rank and years since they scored a goal and lost to el salvador 12-0. the stadium was completed five years ago given to the futbol association by fifa and fifa gave 1.7 million to them in the past decade. could the stadium have been built without the help of blatter and fifa? >> not this time. >> reporter: fifa says the money is meant help to spread the wealth and develop the game in small, poor countries that

might not otherwise have funds to build a team and how it's seen by the president of the local futbol association and why he is so grateful to blatter. >> to have nothing to this is a great achievement of the executive. >> reporter: but some see something more sinister going on. >> the political consequences of going against the leaders of fifa are dire and that is what they have learned and why you have the margin lock step every time and something with fifa and the powers are absolute and uncontrolled. >> reporter: fifa has not responded but in the past denied similar accusations, is it money to buy loyalty to fifa or simply aid futbol development or both and many are ambivalent of a building continues. these are dorms built by visiting teams right next to the stadium, this too was funded with fifa money and despite the

problems fifa is going through the money continues to flow here and just gave $600,000 to them in march so they could continue the second phase of this project. but now as fifa faces increased scrutiny and structural change there are doubts the money will go on the beaches to shore up a team which scores so few goals. al jazeera on the island. mexico are in the semi finals of the win over costa rica and at 0-0 the incident in the final second of time and deemed worthy of a penalty and gratefully stepping up to accept the opportunity and have a look at the celebration with mexico coach miguel. mexico will play panama in the semi final and going against trinidad and 1-1 and penalties

and panama coming through the shoot out and stay in with the chance of winning this title for the first time. irish getting ready for the biggest round of his career so far and has a share of the lead heading into the final round of the open championship. 22-year-old hitting a six under par of 66 and could become the first amateur winner since bobby jones in 1930. and joined by 2010 leader and australia's jason day, this man is jordan spieth and one shot behind as he bids to win a grand slam of major titles this year and won the masters and u.s. open the final round played on monday due to a series of weather delays. england cricket captain described this unacceptable with a defeat against australia

winning by over 400 and england had 103 on day four. >> i sense the hunger from the senior players in particularly and lead that and young players got that enthusiasm and hunger anyway because they want to get out there and play and sense the hunger for success from the senior players and need it if we want to continue to have success. >> very important meeting throughout the day but that is it for now. >> for the time being andy thank you very much. well before we go let's tell you about this 19-year-old australian person who won the rubix finals in brazil and felix completed the famous block puzzle, there he is in under six seconds. he narrowly missed the world record of 5.25 event features 17 different competitions with speed cubers racing for the best in each category. that is it for the news hour and back in a moment with more news

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