>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour i'm in doha and coming up in the next 60 minutes sentenced to death by firing squad the son of libya's former leader wasn't in court to hear his fate. nato holds an emergency meeting on turkey's military campaign against i.s.i.l. and the p.k.k. barack obama's ground breaking trip to east africa warring factions in south sudan are now

in his sight. columbia authorities are about to start of what could be the country's largest mass grave. ♪ but first a son of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi sentenced to death for his alleged role in suppressing the 2011 uprising and he wasn't in court in tripoli to hear his sentence as barker now reports. >> reporter: he is the man many believe would succeed his father colonel moammar gadhafi of leader of libya but after a guilty verdict islam faces death by firing squad. he was arrested in 2011 trying to flee the country and has been kept in prison by a former rebel

group in the mountain town. the rebel group opposes the legally installed government in tripoli but allowed islam to participate by a video link. >> translator: 36 others were also given sentences on tuesday including former intelligence chief abdul la and prime minister also sentenced to death by firing squad. libya's chief prosecutor says the sentences of those tried in tripoli will be carried out. >> translator: they were asked to obtain these sessions but they didn't come so they were sentenced in absent of islam. the final ruling will be delivered to them by their lawyers. even the prosecution has not been acquainted with the roles to date. the legal period is 60 days for appealing the verdict and it has nothing to do with politics.

>> reporter: a case was brought against islam by the international court in 2011 but libya leaders refused to hand him over for trial in the hague and later won to try him at home and in tripoli important has been repeatedly questioned and human rights say they failed to provide him with proper legal representation and for many libyans the gadhafi brothers and former aid represent the faces of his 42 year long dictatorship and many want it left in the past. lee barker al jazeera. let's talk now to a political analyst and director of the tripoli based institute and joins us now via skype from london and so can we say that justice has been done in libya today or is it just a semblance of justice that we just witnessed? >> the families have been described at the hands of the

gadhafi family and the justice is bitter sweet and doesn't look like the way in which i think many people that came out on for the revolution demonstrated bitterly with arms and been involved in democratic condition in the last four years. i don't think this is the kind of victory they may have wanted and i think ultimately any person that has been given a trial in this way has prejudice and that all be it mostly in their minds know he will be guilty of some form of crime that has been committed in the last 40 years the way in which and the means that have been used to conduct this trial are anything but legal and anything but fair and anything but what many libyans got four years ago so i don't think in this respect justice has really been delivered. not giving someone access to lawyers and being beaten and committed torture to in the

jails in time for the trial. >> i wanted to ask you particularly about that. so he wasn't in the, at the trial in tripoli, instead he is held by one malitia in zintan so therefore is this an indication of how fragmented libya is today? >> there are two parliament governments and to sets of malitias that are fighting for control of the country. neither one is able to and ultimately looking towards a peaceful solution and still looking at people like islam and also looking more broadly across their national political landscape, all names are used in political bargaining chips and islam is no different and doesn't bowed well for a country looking to make those changes particularly towards those that are looked at as victims. this is endemeanoric and systematic how it has been transitioning in the last four

years. >> it has been passed on islam but he is not in tripoli. he is being held in zintan what will be his fate? >> no doubt they will try to you know attempt to execute this law. i don't think the malitia are going to give him up to the authorities in tripoli given they both work for different sides and the malitia is operation dignity and the tripoli government is the operation for the coverage so i don't think they are going to look for any kind of solution going forward and i think it will still remain as it is and i don't think you can pursue the execution of the order. this has been refused seven times that called him in for the trial outside. libya authorities on both sides don't want to work with each other and agree with loss of sovereignty here and also means that unless they want to work together unless they have a national unity government i don't think they will be able to execute these orders.

>> talking to us from london thank you. now nato is holding a rare emergency meeting in brussels to review the threat that i.s.i.l. poses to turkey. the extraordinary meeting is the 28th nation defense block was called by turkey because it is worried about the growing strength of i.s.i.l. in its border region. >> it is right and timely that we hold this meeting today to address the instability on turkey's doorstep and on nato's border. nato is following developments very closely and we stand in strong solidarity with our ally turkey. >> reporter: okay live now to our correspondent who is attending that meeting in brussels barnabie phillips and saying this is an unusual meeting and extraordinary meeting called under the terms of article four. what does that actually mean?

>> well that means that a nato member country feels under threat feels that the border is under threat and in this case it's turkey. the only nato front line state if you like in relation to i.s.i.l. so this is an important moment for nato but it comes with complications as well. for a long time there have been countries in western europe and the united states of course who have wanted turkey to be on board in the fight against i.s.i.l. in syria and in northern iraq. well, it does seem that that is happening in the wake of last week's attacks but it comes with a caveat which is turkey is of course also going after p.k.k. bases in northern iraq and there lies the rub because for the west the kurdish forces in northern and in eastern syria have been an important ally and so to what extent can a viable

military relationship with turkey against i.s.i.l. be productive without alienating kurdish forces in syria and that is going to be a very tricky diplomatic question. >> indeed, the turks are saying they are not targeting syrian kurds despite accusations being levelled against them that they have indeed hit them as targets but it says that it does have the right to go after the p.k.k. domestic kurdish force which is based in northern iraq. it's saying to nato it doesn't need any weapons. what does it really want then in this rather ambiguous battle? >> i think crucially what will happen today is that both sides, nato and the sorry the remainder of nato on one side and 27 countries and turkey on the other want to feel out exactly where they stand. from the turkish point of view

will they get the support and solidarity for what they are trying to do to what extent are the strong objections from nato allies about the involvement against the kurds and what exactly are turkey's plans in relation to i.s.i.l. there has been talk of an i.s.i.l.-free zone being established by turkey across the entire what is it 900 kilometer length of the turkish/syria border that sounds very, very sweeping in its scope. how would it be achieved in practical terms, to what extent will turkish requests we have heard in the past for no fly zone in northern syria be welcomed or turned down by nato allies so there is a lot to discuss but as you say at this point there is no indication that turkey is asking nato allies to contribute military hardware to bring in forces into turkey to help in any of its objectives either against the p.k.k. or against i.s.i.l. >> okay live in brussels and

will keep us across with developments of the special meeting being held by nato. but we can now go to turkey itself and get to the southern part of turkey, very close to the syrian border. and our correspondent there is zaina and bernard smith is in the city there and let's start off with zaina who is very close to the syrian border so this idea then of a buffer zone an i.s.i.l.-free zone we are hearing a little bit about from barnabie is something they have been talking about for a long time. >> long demanding this for years now and wanted a no fly zone militarily imposed no fly zone for a safe haven for the syrian people and prevent syrian airplanes from targeting those areas. now the west has always been

reluctant because of the national implications involved with u.n. security council decision and most likely there will be a russian veto. we heard from the u.s. state department make it very clear there will be no fly zone. it is not under consideration for now. but what is under consideration according to the united states is cooperation with turkey to target i.s.i.l. in the northwest. the area behind me. we have to remember the coalition started to target i.s.i.l. in syria last september but the air campaign was focused in the northeast of the country close to the iraqi border and i.s.i.l. had a strong presence there and able to move between the strong holds in syria and iraq. the focus has really been in that region. and the forces on the ground were syria's kurds and they have cooperated with the coalition and are seen as partners and the syrian kurds have managed to make territorial gains pushing

i.s.i.l. from the border. turkey made it clear they are unhappy with the strength of the kurds and y.p.g. movement and sees it as an off shoot of p.k.k. and calls it a terrorist organization. what turkey wants is concentrated efforts to rid the area behind me, the northwest region of aleppo from i.s.i.l. to protect syrian opposition groups which have been coming under attack from i.s.i.l. like you mentioned there are a lot of details that still need to be worked out and the main question is who is going to police this buffer zone, secure zone no fly zone what ever it's being called now because the syrian opposition groups who operate in this area are not friendly with the united states and turkey will not want to see the y.p.g. take more territory. >> thank you for that and bernard is in the city here and bernard every country in region has its kurdish population

doesn't it? obviously the syrians have their kurdish community, the iraqis have their kurdish community as does iran and beyond but the turkish kurds how do they feel right now given that parliamentary successes of not too long ago, a couple of months ago seen now to be very much underminded? >> well, those parliamentary successes are yet to show fruition because there is no new government yet formed. the current ruling party ak are still in coalition talks with potential coalition partners because it lost its overall majority in the elections so those were successes for the pro-kurdish h.d.p. party but they are yet to manifest themselves in parliament. i mean there has been a lot of frustration generally in this part of turkey over the years, over the stalled peace process and that frustration is getting

more and more noticeable at the moment i have just come from a meeting of about 85 or so n.g.o.s, representatives of 85 n.g.o.s here who want to discuss their response to what the turkish government is doing. i spoke also to one of those newly-elected m.p.s earlier on someone who knows the thinking of the p.k.k. the kurdistan workers' party and says the p.k.k. could if it wanted to sort of go all out again in its war with turkey. it hasn't because he said they are still hoping there is a chance for talks. of course the p.k.k. has been active turkish prime minister cited 81 incidents over resent times but there hasn't been any sort of major operation by the p.k.k. in fact, this m.p. tells me the p.k.k. just wants to show the turkish government and says if you can come into our house we can come into yours. >> live there bernard smith and

early speaking to zaina in another part of turkey thank you very much. two policemen killed in bahrain in what the government is describing as a terrorist bombing, six others were injured on the mainly shia muslim island south of the capitol. and bahrain had four years of unrest as shia majority demand more freedom in the sunni ruled kingdom. killed two men believed to have been involved on attack on the embassy in cairo. one person died and nine injured in the blast on july 11 and two suspects killed in a gun fight when police raided their apartment. the saudi-led coalition and houthi rebels accusing each other of breaching the latest ceasefire in yemen and it's day two of the five-day truce but heavy fighting in central and southern yemen as well as in the north close to the saudi border

and we report. >> reporter: the markets in aiden have once again come to life even though the saudi-led coalition in a lateral truce is barely holding. on the city's outskirts pro-government fighters say houthis and loyalists go to the airport and meanwhile a saudi air strike targeted a launch pad in the nearby province. the houthis have not committed to pause in the fighting and see it as a ploy to reenforce government held areas on the roads leading to aiden checkpoints are established to monitor all movement. but the relative calm in fighting mean much needed aid is arriving and getting aid to aiden is the first step to reach impoverished people running out of basic supplies. >> translator: 80% of yemen people are in need of assistance over 9 million need urgent medical help and immobilization of children has stopped completely and presents a threat to their future.

>> reporter: the mood in the capitol sanaa is grim and many just want the war to be over. >> translator: we are entering the fifth month of war and destruction. yemen does not deserve this. the children don't deserve this. in the end of all this destruction the warring sides will sit down and negotiate and it's impossible to resolve this conflict except through dialog and it's better if they just do it now. >> reporter: in areas where houthi rebels are trying to take control there has been no pause in the fighting. and there are reports of shelling and pro-government fighters say the houthis are sending reenforcements on the border with saudi arabia houthis say they fired missiles and saudi forces say they responded to the attack. even in areas where there is support for the government in exile people don't have much faith in the pause. >> we hope that this truce will stop. i mean, it's something strange but as we can see here as you can listen from people we do

not trust the truce. we think that attacking houthis continuously is the key to beat it. >> reporter: truce, what truce? we didn't know anything about it and we heard there is a truce to get electricity and water. we just want things to improve. >> reporter: in aiden damage infrastructure and lack of public services is a constant reminder of the fighting and people here know it's not over yet. al jazeera. israeli riot police confronted jewish settlers as illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank and israeli forces tried to evacuate buildings following a court demolition order and a rights organization order and palestinian landowners went to court on sunday to block the expansion of the settlement by jewish ultra nationalists. the u.n. relief agency facing what it causes the most severe

financial crisis ever and may delay the start of the school year for children in gaza and has a cash shortfall of millions and schools in the middle east may close without funds and daily meals to palestinian children have already been cut. barack obama is due to make a speech at the african union in just a few minutes from now. he is the first u.s. president in office to go to the a.u. headquarters in the ethiopian capitol. on monday president obama joined the leaders of kenya, uganda and ethiopia to talk about the fighting in south sudan. he warned sanctions may be imposed if a peace deal can't be reached next month. well he is also been praising the work of the african union fighting amison which works in somolia trying to contain

al-shabab and barack obama praised the work of force and a.u. soldiers are being blamed for killing civilians in a series of road accidents and mohamed reports from mogadishu. >> reporter: husband run over by military vehicles belonging to african union soldiers. it happened in somali capitol last year his body was left on the streets for several hours. and she is now struggling to raise their kids. >> translator: we were married for 27 years. we had a very happy life. all our children were going to school then one morning they took him away from us. now our life is just a misery. our children didn't just lose a father but also lost their chance to finish going to school and have a happy life. >> reporter: the african union troops are deployed in somalia as part of the effort to fight the armed group al-shabab but people here say they are scared

of fear of being run over. no one knows the accidents involved with african union soldiers in the city and most traffic accidents go unreported. families of victims we spoke to say they feel powerless to stand up to the soldiers. these small legals are looking after more than 100 such cases and 20 are civilian deaths all of them are from the last four years. >> translator: the local courts are powerless. if and when they rule against the soldiers they use enforcing the court's decision, they are above the law. >> reporter: and that is exactly what happened here. he won a court case against african union soldiers after they shot dead his son following a traffic incident. the soldiers were ordered to pay compensation but that was four years ago and he is still waiting. >> translator: they say they came to order and they are killing people. they killed a man who is driving

his car. he was no threat to them or to anyone. >> reporter: and she wants the african union to apologize and pay compensation so her children can go back to school. al jazeera, somalia. we are staying in africa because richard will take a look at the weather particularly in central africa, richard. >> we will see how things are shaping up at the moment. you can see on the satellite imagery we have a fair amount of cloud showing up in aratray and ethiopia. looking at the forecast there is quite a bit of rain showing up here certainly for the ethiopian lands across parts of south sudan. let's move further toward the west and west africa and seeing rain pushing quite a long way north now into parts of chad and mali and rains still being reported across parts of west

africa where we see rain in the next few days and rainfall total comes from guinea and sierra leone and gambia and sinagal in 24-48 hours and plenty of rain and nigeria is pretty wet for instance but this portion of west africa where we will see pretty intense rainfall and it's this part of the world just off the coast we keep a close eye on because it's here we monitor the tropical waves and all hurricanes form right across in the caribbean region and 85% of them begin life in this part of the world and it's massive dry air in the atlantic and should ensure that hurricanes in the caribbean will not develop for sometime yet. a comprehensive look at the weather there from richard. now a dozen pacific rim countries are due to meet in hawaii on tuesday of what could be decisive talks on an

ambitious free trade agreement known as the trans pacific partnership or the t.p.p. the 12 countries involved are shown here in orange. the idea is to slash the cost of trading and eliminate tariffs altogether. the group has a total population of around 650 million. the t.p.p. would effectively turn this into potential single market for many businesses. but critics say the t.p.p. will expand protections for holders. and pharmaceutical firms will be able to prevent the distribution of genetic drugs so medicines could become more expensive. australia is one of the countries involved in the negotiations and as andrew thomas now reports there are mixed opinions over exactly what benefits the t.p.p. could bring. >> reporter: its products monitor water and air pollution

and they exported them around the world. but tariffs and regulations made some big markets, mexico in particular difficult to crack. the boss hopes the trans pacific partnership, t.p.p. will change that. >> we are quite confident we have the mechanisms and products and services and advantage to take on opportunities that t.p.p. would bring. >> reporter: all 12 pacific rim countries involved in t.p.p. talks which together makeup 40% of the global economy exports of eying opportunities and supporters of t.p. p. bring cheap goods and services to all impact to raise global g.d.p. by $300 million but the talks have critics and have been protests. the secrecy of negotiations have frustrated many. >> we don't know anything and that is just outrageous that people are going to be held accountable to an agreement we never saw in the first place. >> reporter: what little is

known causes concern. labor unions worry it could cost jobs, green groups say it could empower corporations at the expense of the government and warn the provisions of t.p.p. will expand the monopoly rights and medicines among the products to be more expensive for longer. >> intellectual property provisions that u.s. is pushing as part of t.p.p. agree to by vietnam then half of, over half of the current patients receiving treatment in vietnam would no longer have access to treatments. >> reporter: another concern is potential to allow corporations to sue governments threatening their profits and they are challenging australia of packaging laws under a treaty and could be more under a t.p.p. critics say. after almost a decade of negotiations t.p.p. talks could conclude here in hawaii later this week. one country that has not been part of them is china.

that is significant. president obama has made it clear he wants the united states to have law to asia and sees this trade deal as central to that. these talks were to fail he thinks china would establish its own free trade zone based on its standards, not the u.s. this t.p.p. deal then is as much about politics as economics. andrew thomas al jazeera, hawaii. south korea says the out break of middle east respiratory syndrome or mers is over health officials lifted the quarantine on the last person suspected of having mers and 36 died in south korea since it was detected in may and almost 200 others were infected. >> translator: considering various situations such as the lifting of surveillance on hospitals and the fact that no new patients were diagnosed with mers for 23 straight days the government and health workers

now feel that the mers outbreak is no longer a threat to the country. >> reporter: the greek government has officially started bailout negotiations with creditors in athens. the prime minister is urging his party to unite over the bailout measures. earlier this month nearly a quarter of the party rebelled over the proposals. parliament eventually approved the measures. important suspect in the death of a former russian security agent alexander has refused to give evidence of a british inquiry and is one of two men suspected of adding radioactive palonium to his tea at the london hotel in 2006. and he had earlier agreed to give evidence by a video link from moscow but he says a simultaneous investigation in russia is preventing him from appearing and denies any

involvement in his death. forensic experts in columbia due to uncover what could be the country's largest mass grave. as many as 300 people killed by security forces in para military groups are believed to have been buried there and we reports now from the outskirts where relatives of the missing have been gathering. >> reporter: hoping their long campaign could soon be over. family members of those who disappeared from the sprawl inging party gathered for a symbolic ceremony here and marks the beginning of the exumation of the country's largest mass grave. >> translator: today we start flooding with light the dark impunity we have been subjected to. >> reporter: the names of hundreds of victims are read out loud and written on script

silhouettes and most disappeared 13 years ago in one of the darkest chapters of columbia's civil conflict when government troops and armed gangs carried out military operations to regain control of the area in 2002. victims say that para military groups and even state security forces have tossed up to 300 people in this landfill. this was an open secret here but while everybody knew few of them did anything to uncover the truth until now. >> translator: it was impunity. there is a hidden truth here which we can only hope will finally come to the surface. >> reporter: she has been searching for her husband for a decade. he was last seen being forced off a bus by armed men. >> translator: i don't expect to find his entire body but hopefully we will be able to find something to punish those responsible for this. >> reporter: prosecutor carlos

recognizes authorities should have intervened sooner. >> translator: today we have new legislation, mostly reduction of violence means we can reach these areas and civil demobilize para militarys talking to prosecutors and this is in evolution of the conflict. >> reporter: a team of forensic experts will begin removing debris on tuesday but it will not be an easy task. tracks have continued to dump waste here for years but the families of the victims say they can wait as long as the closer they have been hoping for so long will finally be dugout of the earth. al jazeera. still to come here at al jazeera we are going live at the a.u. headquarters where barack obama is expected to speak in just a short while. ♪

♪ hello again, let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazeera. a son of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi sentenced to death and says the verdict is a judicially sanctioned execution after a trial and faces war crimes to corruption for his role in suppressing the 2011 uprising. the united states and turkey have agreed on a plan for a buffer zone inside syria to combat i.s.i.l. fighters nato

is holding a rare emergency meeting to review the threat that i.s.i.l. poses to turkey. president obama is due to make a speech at the african union focusing on security in east africa. he has already threatened more sanctions on south sudan if the warring factions cannot reach a deal. we can go live now to mohamed who is in the ethiopian capitol outside that very impressive building built by the chinese but barack obama soon to become the first sitting u.s. president to address the a.u. >> indeed yes, the president is right now in talks with the chairperson of the african union and the commission of the african union and in a few moments he is expected to come up to the nelson mandela in this building and speak to diplomates

accredited to the african union as well as dignitaries here. among the things he is supposed to speak about include mainly peace and security in africa as well as the fight against terrorism. president obama is expected to offer training to african union peacekeepers in various parts of the continent and training that will be done by the african command of the u.s. army. what he also is expected to speak about are the african union on its peace keeping missions particularly in somalia and he is also supposed to talk about the gains that the african union mission in somalia have received recently in terms of taking territory from al-shabab and african union commission is expected to have more funding for the african union peace keeping mission in somalia as a time when the european union is

cutting back funding it had been giving to the activities. one of the things that is going to dominate the speech of the president is the south sudan peace process which is one year and nine months and up to now where there has been no resolution. now, the president on monday afternoon had met mediators and also different sides in the conflict and together with the president of uganda and kenya and the prime minister of ethiopia they have given them a new deadline which is august 17th which they say there must be a breakthrough before then otherwise there will be more sanctions that will be put on the parties that are involved in the conflict in south sudan. >> okay interesting speech then we are expecting later on mohamed for now thank you very much and we will go back to mohamed as soon as the president starts speaking. now when the philippines

president took office he promised to reduce national poverty and to improve his country's economy but five years on many say he simply failed. his final state of the nation address was over shadowed by street protests as we reports now from manila. >> reporter: violence outside the philippine congress. hours before the president's final state of the nation address. an estimated 15,000 protesters gathered from different provinces across the country, unrest that has not been seen in resent years. this was meant to be a peaceful rally but now hundreds of protesters have managed to break the police barrier. this is his last year in office and a message that the protesters are trying to send is clear. >> what happened was corruption remained our sovereignty was under minded, human rights violations persisted and all around government neglect. >> reporter: for young people

who say they are faced with agonizing positions over their future the government is a disappointment. in his speech to congress the president highlighted government achievements. the economy has grown and direct investment has more than doubled and much of the economic reform centered on corruption that for decades held back the economy. >> translator: this is a referendum for the past, you decide if the improvement we are now enjoying will become permanent or we will be considered in a momentary recovery from a long history of failure. >> reporter: the philippine government's negotiations with the most powerful group in southeast asia the liberation front and finally bring an end to the insurgency in the south which lasted for decades. governments statistics show poverty levels have risen to more than 25%.

with no marked improvement in the delivery of social services. more than half of philippines die without having had access to medical care. >> translator: we did not address the fundamental issues of land for our farmers and the problem of wage and job security for philippine workers both in public and private sectors. public hospitals and other social services are being privatized and corruption remains rampant. >> reporter: race to replace is well underway. these are decisive times. whether he is seen as a president that served his people welcome paired to his predecessors, they say only history will be the judge. al jazeera, manila. okay that is a scene live there at the african union headquarters in the ethiopia capitol and there you see zuma who is the president of the

african union introductory remarks for the president and seen the president file in alongside the prime minister of ethiopia who is sitting beside her. so we won't stick around for these opening remarks. we will come back to here as soon as we see the president take to the podium which could be in just a little while. there you see there a wider shot coming up, of the president and the ethiopian prime minister there. we will leave them for now and we will go back as soon as they say president obama starts to speak. but in the meantime let's have a look at this story because the thai prime minister is saying his government is working to solve the issue of human trafficking and it was just on monday the u.s. accused thailand of failing to tackle labor

abuses. so it remains at the bottom of a three-tier watch list compiled by the state department in its annual report. for two years in a row. neighboring myanmar is in a slightly better position but as we report from the capitol it still has a long way to go. >> reporter: being on a tier two watch list is the second worse to occupy and the u.s. recognizes that human tracking is rampant her but efforts to comply with the law. in the report the u.s. says there are sustained efforts to combat human trafficking and something human rights won't disagree with and for years they told the u.s. to down grade myanmar for robust action to fight human trafficking and activists point in particular to the government's persecution of the minority known as rohinga and deny citizenship and freedom

of movement and they say these policies actually drive tens of thousands of them to see the country and into the hands of human traffickers. this went to the boat people and refugee crisis in southeast where people were left marooned on boats and drift on the sea and the straits when the trafficker traffickers abandon them and this is the second time it has been on the tier two list and they will be downgrade next year if there is no improvement. once it is on the tier three list it means the u.s. president can impose whatever sanctions he sees fit. to chilie and burning of a u.s. resident and six former officers have been charged with the murder who died during a prodemocracy strike against the

dictatorship and his female friend who was also set on fire and survived with serious injuries called for an end to the lies and cover up of what happened. protesters in canada say they are outraged at the shooting of two black men by police and andrew from south sudan was shot death earlier this month in toronto and failed to drop the hammer he was carrying and he was shot during a traffic stop last year. the policeman involved was cleared of any wrongdoing just last week. now cancer rates in a small farming town in argentina are three times the national average. a herbicide is suspected of being the cause and the biggest producer of this chemical says it is safe if it's used properly. in the third of our special series on health concerns surrounding the chemical daniel reports.

>> reporter: more than half a million liters of chemicals are sprayed each year on the farmland here. some contain the chemical glyphosate which the world health organization says probably causes cancer. >> translator: think about the risks but you are not scared and i was young aren't and i have no finger nails because we have to handle delicate things so you take the gloves off. >> reporter: he sprayed crops for a living and now has liver cancer and five chemicals found in his blood. this land is regularly fumigated and right on the edge of town just a few feet away from these houses where people daily will be touching eating and breathing toxic chemicals. this was founded in 2005 with a doctor highlighted unusually high cancer levels. this map graphically showing the spread of the disease.

>> translator: hearing off the street a nine-year-old girl died last year a friend of my grand daughter. >> reporter: most have cancer or other diseases they believe are caused by the spraying. and he has colon cancer called in a team of scientific investigators from the universities. >> translator: we want all the fume machines to be sent far from the town and also want the chemical deposits stored far from the town. >> reporter: residents citing the report voted for a cleanup, for an end to unsafe storage of chemicals and for this kind of dumping on the town tip. >> translator: we are up against a lot of economic interests because we are questioning the agricultural production model based on application of the substances which are detrimental to health. their response was to question the scientific validity of our reports. >> reporter: in towns across

the province here owe their livelihood to the lucrative crop which needs heavy spray using chemicals like this. and major manufacturers insist their products if used correctly are safe and the biggest producers of the chemical declined our requests for an interview. >> translator: i'm in a bad way because i did bad things that is why i'm in this fight so that things will now be done properly. >> reporter: some have left town fearful for their children. but most stay and fight against the chemical sprays and for cleaner air, uncontaminated food and healthy soil. and it may be too late for him but the sun has not set here just yet. daniel with al jazeera, argentina. now a week of mourning has been declared in india for the former president a.p.j. the

83-year-old was giving a lecture when he collapsed a and he was known as the missile man and we explain why. >> reporter: for a country that prides itself on scientific traditions he was one of its best success stories. the son of a boatman from the southern indian state he worked as a scientist with the government's defense and space agencies for several years. he helped india conduct a nuclear test in 1998 its first in more than 20 years. >> translator: the device is very sad news for the whole country and the community of scientists. as the president of india his work, life and words are still a guide to the country. >> reporter: known as the people's president one of his most enduring qualities was his ability to work with politicians

and leaders across party lines. >> when i heard about it i could not believe to my knowledge he was not ill, he was not in bad health he was active and he was doing all that. so really it's sad news. >> reporter: he died in the northeastern india city doing what he loved, giving a lecture to students and the indians said days of mourning and i'm from al jazeera new deli. that is the scene live in the ethiopia capitol, the headquarters of the african union speaking and addressing delegates is zuma the chair woman of the a.u. and making introductory remarks just before president obama takes to the podium. he of course in so doing will become the first sitting u.s. president to address the african

union and we will take you right back there as soon as he gets to the stage. >> i've been asked to keep my voice down cause we are so close to the isil position

>> who is in charge, and are they going to be held to accout? >> but know we're following the research team into the fire >> they're learning how to practice democracy... >> ...just seen tear gas being thrown... >> ...glad sombody care about us man... >> several human workers were kidnapped... >> this is what's left of the hospital >> is a crime that's under reported... >> what do you think... >> we're making history right now... >> al jazeera america >> beyond the verdict and on the streets. >> there's been another teenager shot and killed by the police. ♪ andy is here and means time for the sports. >> nadal efforts for season playing at the ham burg open this tuesday, for the first time in a decade he is yet to win a major title by this point in the year. his last match was a second-round at wimbledon in the world ranking tenth and he builds up to the last grand slam of the world, next month's u.s. open. >> i have no idea i'm not

having the best season possible but that is i'm working hard to try to be great for the things that are coming later and just wait for my moment. >> reporter: international olympic committee meeting in malaysia when it chooses the host for the 2022 winter olympic and that decision coming up later in the week and who will bid for the 2024 summit games and u.s. city of boston pulled out due to lack of public support and they have to mid september to submit a bid with los angeles now the frontrunner. >> i refuse to mortgage the future of the city away and put them on the hook for over runs and refuse to commit to signing a guaranty that uses taxpayers' dollars to pay for the olympics. >> reporter: south africa clyde died at age of 66 and has been ill with a brain tumor, in 1991

he was south africa's one day captain and ban for playing international cricket for 20 years and he was aged 42. australia chris rogers hoping to be fit for the test against england on wednesday and the series is posed at 1-1 with australia running last time out and 47-year-old is recovering from dizziness that saw him hurt in the second set. that was after england anderson struck on the helmet with a delivery. and rogers has been a key man with top scores of 95 and 173. >> it has come through pretty well since the net and it's good to go. i think we will have a date tomorrow i'm not sure but it seems to be good. >> reporter: england under huge pressure going in the game and

batting at three despite his poor runner form and dropped with johnny there with the team as england looked to regroup after that huge defeat in the second set. >> we got excitable when we played downstairs and desperate to go out and show what we can do. look what we did. it was a great performance and it's all about this week now and making sure when we get an opportunity to get ahead in the game we take it. >> reporter: now one of the toughest foot races in the world gets underway in a few hours time, the ultra marathon sees runners taking on big distances in extreme weather conditions. the water basin is in the death valley national park in california close to nevada border and the lowest elevation in america is 85 meters below sea level and 100 athletes set out on a 217 kilometer journey that will take in three mountain rages for a decent of close to

4500 meters. if they can't complete the course in 48 hours cutoff mark they will fine issue at the summit, the highest point in the u.s. and we have this. >> reporter: some people call it a race, others a run, others say it's just survival is what most of the athletes will be facing is survival when they compete in the bad water 135, 135 mile or 217 kilometer foot race. it starts here in the death valley national park of california. as you might be able to tell nothing really survives here because it is so hot. this is one of the hottest areas in the entire world. certainly in north america. right now it's 120 degrees fahrenheit 48 degrees celsius and a little after 6:00 p.m. local time. now over 134 different athletes from 24 different countries have

already started arriving here and it starts here at one of the lowest points in all of north america and finishes in mount whitney one of the highest points in the country. within the world of endurance athletes this race has taken on almost mythical status and one of the most different races in the world and the obvious question is what drives people to want to do it. >> i want to see how far i can take a body, how far i can push it yeah. that is what is driving me. to see if i can take the challenge. >> i suffer a lot but i take all and endure. >> reporter: this race is about survival but it's also a competition, the course record set was in 2007 when a brazilian man finished in 22 hours and 51 minutes. now for the women that record was set in 2010 when a woman from the united states finished

a little over 26 hours. the few who make it to the finish line will deserve a big celebration but probably not as energized as this routine, here are the jacksonville sharks at the arena football league on a touchdown with the rock the johnson signature move the people's elbow so i'm told and the sharks count down tampa bay with 63-16 win. excellent stuff. you can check out that and the rest of the sports on our website, al jazeera.com/sport. russian president pronouncement and blatter deserving on a nobel peace prize our top story there. okay that is sports for now. >> thank you very much indeed. do stay with us here at al jazeera because of course we will take you right back to president obama's speech to the a.u. ♪

♪ sentenced to death by firing squad the son of libya's former leader wasn't in court to hear his fate. ♪ hello again, you are with al jazeera live from doha also to come in this program nato holds an emergency meeting on turkey's military campaign against i.s.i.l. and the kurdish p.k.k. president obama's ground breaking trip to east africa and due to become the first u.s. president to address the african union in just