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warm summer months. once they reach italy many migrants then try to go to northern europe, between 3-5,000 people are camping in largely squaller conditions in the north town of cali hoping to cross the english channel and reach the u.k. more on that situation this a moment and first let's hear from the international organization for migration. >> many migrants unfortunately died on the boat because especially the migrants are forced to embark in the hold of the boat, whether it's the engine, there are no windows and it is very easily unfortunately to die because of the isolation of the fumes of the engine. last week for example people died on one diesel vessels. we are kept in the hold of the boat.

unfortunately they had run out of water so they couldn't drink and at the end they died of thirst. >> reporter: and now to cali in northwestern france where migrants are attempting to reach a new life in britain via an under sea tunnel and al jazeera charles stratford is there. >> reporter: actually come from speaking to medics and they are telling us that they are seeing an increasing amount of injuries here, an indication of just how desperately determined people are here to try and cross those seas and cut through those barb wire fences and make it on the trains and doctors treating around 40 cases a day and often the case they were getting the same person back with the same injuries repeated injuries the next day. they were saying that for these people are so desperate to make it to the u.k. that health is not a big priority so they are taking massive risks and you are seeing a lot of cuts on hands,

broken limbs. we spoke to a group of men from darfor who one of them badly injured his leg and he was saying that they believe around 30-40 men or women and women, sorry, make it across each week. i said how can you confirm that? and they say well because sometimes you will just hear it within the camp, you will hear celebrations among the people here and the camp you will hear screaming and some people will get calls from migrants that we are here on new k numbers. charles stratford with a situation in france and lauren flee is just over the english channel in dover where he has been engaging peoples' feelings about the migrant crisis. >> reporter: that is cali just over there, and they come under the sea or on the ferries are now being watched with a suspicious gaze of authorities. increasingly determined to keep people out who might be hiding

inside. and a british media seemingly possessed of a rage against all migrants, the political class and popular opinion here have decided that by and large the stow aways are almost all up to no good. you hear it everywhere you go. >> thousands would come if they could and just for the free hands out, housing and whatever they can get really. and i mean they say they want to work but i don't think actually that is the case. >> this country is people and not for migrants, it's only for the british and why should they be coming over in the first place. >> reporter: most of it is not true and the stats got stuck there not because of the migrants but by a strike at the ferry port this cali and those who try to explain to the public that almost all of those in cali are likely to be legitimate refugees have had their voices drown out. >> the polls say that david

cameron is talking more fences and that is not going to work because that is based on the illusion they are economic migrants and in reality they are fleeing for their lives and the u.k. and the rest of europe needs to take responsibility for that. >> reporter: prime minister here has spoken of a swarm of migrants coming by the thousands and the local council has a number for those on the children it has to look over. in total it stands at 639, not this year but ever. >> i met a young man whose mother and father were both murdered in front of him and he kept running. i spoke to a young man whose village was attacked and left and doesn't know whether to this day members of his family are still alive. they are young people that have had traumatic experiences and really do need our help. >> reporter: where are they all? taxi drivers said they were here and dover and locals would not drive down after dark and the

foreigners are from the european union and free to live and work in the u.k. >> i couldn't blame the lady next door here with eight kids with a person trying to cross the borders from africa and risked their life with their kids and at the end of the day it's a big mess. >> reporter: never mind that, they say it's a land of milk and honey and right for exploitation and agreed and even if much of what has been said is a fairytale. afghanistan appears to be growing tension within the taliban. a senior commander has told al jazeera he rejects the group's new leader monsur, the highest person to speak out against the appointme appointment. >> translator: the reason we are not accepting him as our leader is because he is a cause

of disunity. a close family is not happy with him and they have left the taliban movement and his appointment was without consulting with a jihad or elder or normal people especially the family of omar which is very respected and should have been informed about the election of mohamed and chosen himself as a leader. electing him shows he has been appointed by an outsider and wanted to impose him on it and that is the unity. >> reporter: more on the divisions within the taliban in afghanistan we have this report from al jazeera's jennifer glasse. >> reporter: and he is considered as the third most powerful taliban leader and shows how deep the split is here over the taliban leadership, he objecting to the election of mohamed mansur to omar and said it was dictators who dictated

that and thinks the new leader should be chosen by afghans inside afghanistan. all of this comes as taliban peace talks were to be held and it was the prospect of taliban peace talks that had divisions in the taliban leadership and it was his group that actually started raising questions at the prospect of peace talks became evident early this summer asking where he was and that of course promoting that he is dead. the taliban not being specific about when he died. afghan officials say he may have died as long as two years ago. the splits in the taliban making peace talks much more difficult because the afghan government would like to talk to a united taliban, a taliban with a broad base of support of fighters across the country and of course it comes at a difficult time in the fighting season. at the height of the fighting season taliban in the north and south and east taking quite a bit of land and giving afghan security forces quite a

difficult fight. there has been a desperate plea for international help as myanmar's government struggles to be deal with the worst flooding the country faced in decades and there are fears flood waters will hit more populated areas as carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: it looks like a river but it's a part of myanmar hit by floods, a stream overflowed in the village here and dealing with consequences without government support. >> translator: this situation is not good for us. everyday we need to pay for a boat just to get out of the house and buy groceries. >> reporter: a nearby monistary has opened its doors and monks trying to support the people with donors and civil society organizations. >> translator: i'm very sad for the people because the government does nothing for them. government neglects flooded communities.

it's not good. it has been the same for 11 years. and unless we get more donations we will run out of supplies in ten days. >> reporter: government aircraft are dropping supplies in rakine state and it's hard to know just how badly people have been affected here as phone lines are down and roads washed away. >> translator: first we focus on food. we prepared boxes of rice, drinking water, instant noodles, we have to drop off the rations two meters above the ground and people have to collect and share them. >> reporter: 200,000 people affected across 12 of 14 regions in myanmar, their homes are flooded and cannot access normal services and there are concerns that rivers may burst their banks and making people vulnerable and in need of help. >> the consequences of what we imagine and what we expect is they could be distress use of displacement and schools are shut and children have lost that

and there are also areas with relatively high wraths of malnutrition so the flooding situation could exacerbate those situations. >> reporter: groups and u.n. says the government is best prepared to deal with the disaster than it was this 2008 when a cyclone left 140,000 people dead or missing. but in this crisis some people say they are not getting the government help they need. carolyn malone, al jazeera. let's hear now the head of the disaster and crisis management at the international federation of the red cross and he joins us from geneva and sir thank you for being with us on al jazeera. international federation of the red cross has been in myanmar for a couple of days, tell us a little about what you found, what the situation is like there. >> indeed. the international federation maintains a presence in myanmar and work with the red crescent society responding to the floods since the middle of july when they first started to become a

concern. what has changed in the last few days is that we have seen a steep increase in the flood affected areas as a result of the cyclone which was lingering off the coast and made landfall in bangladesh on the 31st of july and what we have seen like carolyn's report confirms is at least 200,000 people displaced by the flooding and critical humanitarian needs, food, clothing, shelter as a result of people having to move out of their homes into temporary accommodation. >> and how difficult has it been for you to get the aid to the people who need it especially i guess considering the infrastructure in myanmar is often lacking? >> indeed it is very challenging to work in many of these rural affected areas in myanmar because of the lack of infrastructure. again, as the report has shown, many of these communities rely on rivers as their main mode of transportation and being able to move items, release items by

boat is a logistic challenge. of course the communication network is also affected and we are finding with the extensive network of branches we have in myanmar we have not been able to reach all areas and have a definitive figure on the number of people affected by the floods this year. >> it has not been particularly open to the international community. now we see them reach out to the international community for help. are you surprised by this? and also how big a difference do you think that just them reaching out for help might make? >> yeah, this is very welcome and it's something that i think was provisioned for or planned for in the context of their national and their regional disaster preparedness plans. it's pleasing to see the government recognize that the limited capacity that exists, the infrastructure challenges and the international good will and support that is available to myanmar can be called on to

respond in a timely way. so we have been working very closely with the myanmar red cross, and iclc and with the government of myanmar to ensure that when disasters strike myanmar that there is a greater sense of openness and a more floyd situation for logistics, communication and transport to get life-saving relief to the people affected as quickly as possible. >> speaking of the people affected we spoke to the u.k. here and told us they have not received any aid yet and obviously the rohinga is a group often discriminated against in myanmar, is that happening, certain groups are being prioritized, have you seen any of that? >> no, we don't have any evidence of that at this stage. of course as i've said access to all areas affected by the flooding is difficult and we are currently under taking more detailed assessments of the communities worst hit and looking at targeting our

assistant in those areas that are in most dire need and make our assistance available on the basis of need, not on the basis of any other criteria and i'm confident other humanitarian agencies are doing very much the same, trying at this point to workout where people are in greatest need and get assistance to those people as quickly as possible. >> the federation of the red cross, sir, thank you. >> you are welcome. and coming up, later in the news hour a corruption case against south african politician julius is thrown out of court and we will tell you why, malaysia corruption scandal and questions of a multi million dollar deposit in the prime minister's bank account and in sport we will hear what the australian footballer at the race and what he has to say about his future. ♪

but first israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has made a personal appeal to jewish groups across the united states in an attempt to halt the international deal with iran. in the web address netanyahu said the deal won't prevent iran from producing a nuclear weapon. >> by keeping the deal iran will become a threshold nuclear weapons power. the deal does make it harder for iran to produce one or two nuclear weapons in the short term but it does so at a terrible price because the deal makes it far easier for iran to build dozens, even hundreds of nuclear weapons in a little over a decade. >> we are live in new york with more details. first of all kristen what are jewish groups in the united states saying about the deal with iran? >> well, barbara, it really depends on who you talk to. on the one hand you have the

american israel public affairs committee, a high powered lobbying group that has come out strongly against this deal. on the other hand you have a more progressive and left wing group called j street which has come out strongly for the deal. i think it's safe to say opponents of the deal have been much more vocal and much more active in pressing their case. the citizens for the nuclear free iran is an organization that is formed and is spending $1.7 million to advise against this deal and to get people to call their congressmen and women to voice their objections. there was a rally here in new york where there is a very strong and very organized jewish community that drew thousands of people, again, against that deal. on the other hand there have been some polls that suggest the majority of jewish americans actually favor it by some 20%. there were two polls to that affect so it's hard to say where

the jewish community lines up. i'm standing outside of the synagogue on the upper part of manhattan and here is a jewish community center, this is a place that is not political at all and it's where people come in the jewish community and the community at large to swim, to exercise and take classes and things like that so i tried to get a little sample of what people were thinking about this deal. a lot of people were reluctant to speak on camera but i was surprised there were actually a lot of people in favor of it. here is a listen to a sampling of some of the opinions. >> i don't think it's a good idea to give them all that money, i just don't, not considering where some of the terrorists came from. >> i think if we have peace in this country and the world and people of my generation that people of your generation will do a better job than our generation did because we can't seem to learn from the mistakes. >> reporter: and kristen it's interesting that benjamin netanyahu chooses to address specifically the jewish

communities in the u.s. so what impact could all of this have on politicians in congress? >> well members of congress are under intense pressure right now from these groups not to support the deal. and of course people on the other side of the issue as well, but just to give you a little bit of a sampling of the kinds of pressure they are under israeli ambassador met with some 50 congressmen to lobby against the deal. chuck shumer a democrat from new york known as a hawk on israel, he is also next in line for the senate leadership, very close to president obama. a strong supporter of presidential democratic candidates hillary clinton. he has remained silent on this issue. but there are reports that his offices received more than 10,000 calls against the deal. and at that rally i was telling you about here in new york the

majority of the signs that were printed up actually targeted chuck shumer telling him not to vote on this so a lot of members in the congress and senate have not said how they will vote on this, a lot of democrats i think because of that pressure, they are playing their cards very close to the vest and we will know in the coming weeks exactly how that plays out. but clearly the obama administration is concerned because the president is also due to meet with jewish leaders later today. >> chris with the latest from new york, kristen, thank you. turkish security forces have launched an intensive operation along the border with iraq and troops are searching for the people who planted a homemade mine in the southeast killing two soldiers and a guard on tuesday morning. the turkish government suspects pkk fighters were behind the attack and they are continuing the aerial bombardment of pkk positions in northern iraq. let's go to malaysia now where questions are swirling about a

multi million the deposit in the prime minister's account and he is cleared of wrongdoing the origins of the deposit remain unclear and opponents are in the firing line and we report from kuala lumpur. >> reporter: headquarters of the magazine in kuala lumpur and it's quiet since there is a three-month ban on all publications and investigating a money trail and apparently funds from the finance ministry ended up in the bank account of the prime minister to the tune of $700 million and they stand by the article and demanding clarification of the government's decision and they filed for judicial review and were unable to comment at this time. it was "the wall street journal" that initially reported it seen documents implicated prime minister and he has been fire fighting the accusations levelled at him and when questioned by his own deputy and by malaysia attorney general he

decided to fire them both last tuesday in a major cabinet reshuffle and such moves are drawing national concern. his criticism of the government's handling of this investigation has him barred now from leaving the country. >> i have not been charged and not requested to assist in any investigation. it clearly points to an act of desperation into their attempt to intimidate the big critics, again the prime minister and his handling of one relation. >> reporter: the actions of the government are like the 1980s when several reputable newspapers were shut down for a period. >> i really think that it's a serious indication of failure to engage in a healthy, democratic way with relations with the states and citizens. >> reporter: the government are making their position clear. >> because of the nature of allegations made by this could very well under mine the

security of the nation and stability of the economy. we believe a temporary suspension of the publication is the best way to go pending investigation both by the thai government and also by domestic investigator and authorities here in malaysia. >> reporter: resent elections are seen by folks and opinions move to opposition parties. malaysia has just over two years before the next general election, enough time for the government to recover and restore faith in the public. but more issues like this will only reenforce opinions but the party that has been in power since independence may no longer be trusted. robin with al jazeera, kuala lumpur. malaysia police have an arrest warrant for editor of a u k-based website reporting on the corruption allegations and that is called the report and the editor is claire brown who is here with me in the studio and thank you so much for being with us. now they have an arrest warrant

out for you and you are claiming you have been followed around london by teams of stalkers engaged in illegal harassment and tell us more about that. >> i've had an interesting couple of months, i have been hacked, my radio station has been jammed which is quite normal. i've experienced people following me, photographing me. the people i have met with have been identified by pro-malaysia government blogs including the general subject matter of our conversations and indeed these perfectly innocence people i happen to meet in one case was arrested on his return to malaysia a couple of days ago. there is a lot of aggressive action against me designed to intimidate me. >> you are confident it has to do with your work? >> absolutely, yes. they have been openly hostile and i have been called an enemy of the state, my blog has been barred, it's an unprecedented move in malaysia along with two

very respected newspapers which have been closed by the malaysia government in the past few days. >> as we were mentioning in our report and tell us about your work on your website. what are your views on the continuing questions over the corruption allegations? >> well, i think the recents actions of the malaysia prime minister speak for themselves. there were several investigations, official investigations that were underway into this absolutely enormous financial scandal surrounding disappearing billions from their development fund known as war malaysia and development and these were being investigated, certainly. he struck about a week ago. he sacked his deputy prime minister who apparently had been asking too many questions about it. he sacked his attorney general who had been in charge of one of the task forces. he closed down the public accounts committee. he changed the special branch head. he sacked a number of the more

prominent members of his cabinet who had been questioning what was going on with the investigation. a long with vilifyiing myself and other newspapers who had been doing good investigative work on this scandal. >> so where do you see it going especially seeing as we see the newspaper being closed down and you in the u.k. are having difficulties, what do you get the sense of the conversation going on in malaysia about this right now? >> what you are getting is a total clamp down on the investigation into this scandal which it has to be said was getting very close to implicating the prime minister and of course one of the most resent stories that i together with "the wall street journal" covered was the fact that some $27 million or sorry $50 million had gone from one ndb associated fund into the prime minister's personal account.

further, just under $700 million had come from an arab bank in singapore into the prime minister's personal accounts again. now these were raising enormous questions obviously. this information had come out as a result of the investigations into 1 ndb and this is what we reported and made it very close now to the prime minister. the prime minister took a month to come out with a reason for the money, the $700 million that had gone into his personal account and he said that it is a personal donation but he is not using it for personal purposes and that is it. no more information. malaysia is scratching its head right now. >> what about the international community then, what kind of pressure do you think could be brought on to malaysia from the outside? >> of course these transactions are international and a lot of international links so there are international bodies that are looking at this and one mdb was

involved in a number of international projects. soma laysha is not an island in the global economy and they are being looked at and of course you are seeing a run on it and seeing money flooding out of malaysia and internationally and unfortunately what this has done is raise a huge question mark over malaysia's expensively cultivated image as a moderate democratic country. i mean, they are bringing charges against me for undermining, supposedly democracy whereas, in fact, what we are seeing is the lack of democracy in malaysia where newspapers were threatened a couple of days ago by the new deputy prime minister with very harsh instant action, without warning if they someone. they are intimidating everybody and trying to shut this down and the world is asking why. >> are you worried about the charges with the arrest warrant?

>> they are ludicrous charges. i am not going to get extradited from the united kingdom under charges that don't exist in any normal democracy. it's hard to understand how i undermine democracy, all i've done is conduct normal investigative journalism and frankly if there was something wrong with my reports they could always sue me which i'm mindful of when i write something. they have not made up their mind if i forged documents which they accused me of or obtained criminally leaked documents and obviously it has to be one or another but what i have done is cause concern to the public and that is my fault and not the government's apparently. >> good to have you back in the studio to find out what happens and claire brown editor of the sara-wak report thanks for coming in. lots more to come on the programming including death row,

and pakistan authorities hanged the person who was just a child when he was arrested. plus why venezuela people are being forced on to a gluten-free diet and australia faces england and facing problems ahead of the fourth round. ♪

>> 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 >> what did you see when you went outside last year? >> there was a dead body in the middle of the street... for 5 hours. >> there's a lot of work to be done. >> they need to quite talking about what should be done and do it. >> there's clearly an issue and we have to focus on how we

bridge that. >> a lot of innocent lives are still being lost. reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, the number of people who have died attempting to reach europe by the mediterranean this year surpassed 2000. a senior taliban commander has told al jazeera he rejects the new leader mullan akhtar mansoor, the latest member of the group's higher ranks to speak out against the appointment and myanmar made appeal for international aid after the worst flooding in decades. the corruption case against julius malema has been thrown out of court and was facing racketeering, fraud, corruption and money laundering and al jazeera miller reports.

>> reporter: welcome words for julius malema for the judge hearing his trial for corruption, racketeering and money laundering and opposition leader and two business men implicated in illegally obtaining a government contract worth $4 million but one of the accused was ill and wasn't in court for the resumption of the trial which has already been delayed several times over the last two years. the judge refused another postponement and state prosecutors did not want to have malema tried separately so the case was dismissed. >> i gave the state a practical option, they did not use it. why they did not use it because they didn't have a case against me and they had one postponement after postponement so i become a citizen in south africa with a permanent dark cloud over my head. >> reporter: state prosecutors say they are considering their

options. >> process is that top of this is not enough for the state and they can oppose this with a view of getting a certificate to reinstate the matter. >> reporter: malema supporters are not concerned by legalities and they are just happy he is a free man. now he is free from court malema will return when the national assembly reconvenes and he has been a thorn in the side of the ruling party and its leadership. with corruption charges out of the way, malema is likely to press on with trying to force president jacob zuma to answer corruption allegations made against him. miller, al jazeera. police in london are investigating a former british prime minister as part of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse claims.

edward heath was prime minister between 1970-1974 and led the conservative party for more than a decade. police gave no details about the alleged abuse but it's part of a wider investigation into a number of prominent names. heath died a decade ago. the u.n. refugee agency says 100,000 people have fled fighting in yemen over the past four months. the agency says it only has a fifth of the funds it actually needs to cope with the number of people leaving. the civilian death toll in the conflict has risen to nearly 2000 and more than 4,000 have been injured. the u.n. envoy to yemen says his plan to end the four-month conflict is increasingly gaining acceptance among the warring parties and comes after anti-houthi fighters recaptured the biggest military base from houthi rebels and al jazeera reports. >> reporter: yemen's largest

military base is now under the control of pro-government forces. the base was seized from houthi rebels and forces loyal to former president saleh. forces who call themselves resistance fighters used air support, tanks and armored vehicles provided by the saudi-led alliance. >> the victory is a turning point, the southern resistance was able to manage themselves enough to in a semi military fashion to gain this victory. >> reporter: anti-houthi fighters say this victory brings them closer to advancing to the contested city of thai, the scene of some of the fiercist fighting and the forces in the south are on exile as houthis are pushed on the defensive. >> translator: without the implementation of council resolutions we cannot initiate a political process that will include houthi and militias

after they committed all these crimes. >> reporter: the military complex has been used by u.s. forces against al-qaeda as well and it's not a game changer that pro-government fighters want to be, the union of opposition to the houthis has proparty and members and scecessionists and o not want to push further north into houthi-held territory. >> they are adamant they will not go to north territories and by north i mean north of the borders of 1990 which is thai and up words to sanaa. it's going to be a task for the yemeni government to actually raise some sort of resistance in these northern provinces from its own people. >> reporter: as the war continues the yemen has dropped in value by nearly 20% in the last few days, that is expected to cause already high food

prices to soar further and 80% of the population faces shortages of water, food, fuel and power. the most stressing task is to provide aid to the million who are stranded under intense fighting. al jazeera. pakistan has executed a man on death row for murder despite appeals by international human rights groups for mercy. the family of shafqat hussain say he was a minor when he was arrested in 2004 for killing a child and tortured into confessing and nicole johnston has the story from islamabad. >> reporter: shafqat hussain was hanged in karachi before dawn and his family traveled to be there insisting that shafqat hussain was 14 years old when he was convicted. >> translator: tell me did i get justice? i am older than him. guess how old i am? he was 2 1/2 years younger than me. >> reporter: his family has fought for his life. human rights groups including

amnesty international say shafqat hussain was a minor when he was sentenced to death for killing a seven-year-old boy and had been tortured to confess. however a government investigation found he was 23 years old when arrested and pakistan lifted the six year moratorium in december last year after the pakistan taliban at actualinged an army run school and killed 132 students and shocked them in action and declared people on death row for terrorism crimes would be executed. however a reuters investigation found most of the people who were hanged were convicted murderers and 1-6 have been found guilty of crimes linked to terrorism. >> our question is are these terrorists being executed or are they ordinary convicts being executed? 99% of those being executed are those who were convicts already on death row who have already served 13-14 years which is the life sentence maximum for

murder. >> reporter: many pakistanis support the death penalty. >> it's difficult and a bit too early to say to end a death penalty. as i said all the prison system and our society at large it doesn't have that information informing the criminals because once you have a criminal you become a criminal. >> reporter: there are more than 8,000 people facing the death penalty in pakistan and since the moratorium was lifted over 190 people have been hanged. this place is pakistan in the top three countries in the world for executions along with saudi arabia and iran. this year there has been a significant drop in number of attacks in pakistan. the government argues one of the reasons for this is the fear of being executed. but shafqat hussain's family says the legal system is too weak and corrupt to protect it from being accused.

nicole johnston islamabad. >> reporter: government forces in sudan accused of war crimes in the province and interviewed by amnesty international say hundreds of civilians have been killed in deliberate attacks on the army on schools and hospitals. the human rights groups says unexploded emissions prove that prohibited weapons such as cluster bombs have been used. south is the focus of fighting since 2011 as south sudan was pushing for independence. south and the blue nile states link themselves to south sudan even though they are north of the border in sudan itself. in the run up to south sudan independence a rebel group called splm north was fierce both states were being isolated from the south. a quarter of a million people have now fled into neighboring south sudan and ethiopia to escape the fighting and amnesty says it's almost impossible to

get humanitarian aid to people. >> this aerial bombardment had been carried out using fighter jets and they have been dropping cluster bombs and other in ddis criminate weapons and schools and hospitals should not be targeted but sudan is not only targeting hospitals and schools and other civilian infrastructure and also bombing civilians in areas where they try to hide, in caves, in fox holes. very difficult to get aid into these areas for 1.2 million people in this area there are only two hospitals available. opposition activists in burundi is in hospital after being shot in the neck in the capitol. human rights campaigner is an out spoken critical of the

president and opposed to controversial decision to run for a third term and said to be conscious but doctors say it's too dangerous at the moment to remove the bullet. fire crews in california have managed to build a buffer zone to help protect thousands of homes threatened by wildfire and more than 13,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. the blaze which is now named rocky fire has roughly quadrupled in size over the last few days and around 60,000 acres has been ruined and more land is expected to be devastated. the issue of staple shortages in venezuela has already seen toilet paper, coffee, sugar and milk hard to come by and linked to price controls and now flour is in short supply and lopez reports. >> reporter: empty ovens, idle

mixtures and have gone without flour now for close to a month. >> translator: they promised us flour for monday and tuesday and wednesday and it never arrives. we don't know when it will arrive. >> reporter: for close to three years now venezuela people live with the shortages of the basic food stuffs but something about going home is hitting a raw nerve. >> translator: i feel offended as a venezuela to live in such a rich country but where one can't find bread. >> reporter: none of the bakerys in this small neighborhood have a steady supply of four, and a decade of currency controls is what halted production in the country and lack of liquidity is weighing in but vent waylands have adopted and some hoard and others trade on the black market and others due without and others substitute and bakers lend each other flour. >> translator: we've had to

change our mentality to adopt this economy. there is now a sense of solidarity among baker's and those who cover and those who don't. i owe close to 60 sacks of flour. >> reporter: but every crisis has its opportunities. and vent waylands have turned to an i ndiginous made of root. >> translator: it has benefitted the sales and no longer can cover demand and do not lack it but are hit by shortages of plastic for packaging and stickers for labels. >> reporter: and because this is gluten-free the people have entered negotiations with a foreign pizza franchise to provide them with a pizza place. lopez with al jazeera, caracus. still to come on the news hour the huge mountain carving in the u.s. that many believe is a symbol of racial hatred. and in sport we will hear from

kenya runners who deny allegations that many of the top athletes are involved in doping. ♪ >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> comedian mo amer. >> are we filming a short? what's happening? >> confronting stereotypes. >> i was afraid to be myself. >> mixing religion and comedy. >> get over it, you know who i am... got the chuckle, now let's really address it.

>> and challenging islamophobia. >> i was performing and would say "i'm an arab american"... and you could hear a pin drop. debate over racism in the u.s. has reignited after confederate flags were flown at georgia's stone mountain which celebrates confederate leaders and the controversial flag has been retired in south carolina and alabama after nine african/americans were shot dead at a church in charleston but has supporters as robert ray reports now from stone mountain. >> reporter: it's a granite

monument over 800 feet high just outside the city of atlanta. the huge stone outcropping was the sight of the rebirth of the ku klux klan in 1915 when several members of the then secret society gathered there and ignited a flaming cross to proclaim its revival. ever since then many have seen the mountain as a symbol of racial hatred. >> the history is related to white supremacy. >> reporter: it took nearly 50 years has davis and robert e lee and thomas stone wall jackson all leaders of the confederacy. atlanta councilman michael bond has proposed keeping the monument but adding historical georgia natives like former president jimmy carter and martin luther king junior. >> it's over 280 years old. and yet the confederacy was only four years of that and so the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is

historic georgia and that is really far from the case. >> reporter: the naacp has a very different approach and they want the monument completely removed. >> for people claim there are a lot of artistic expression but that art is not worth another black life. ♪ over the weekend hundreds rallied peacefully at what they call the pro con -- confederate at the base of the building. >> they can use it for good, it's just a symbol. >> reporter: others at the rally like the self proclaimed head of the ku klux klan came with other intentions. are you with the kkk? >> i'm with the kkk and very proud to stand up for my heritage if people knew what the hell they were talking about they would know that the kkk was started by six confederate soldiers. >> let him go, let him go.

the rally is this way folks. >> reporter: this klan member would not give al jazeera his name and people at the rally had him removed and scenes like this are adding fuel to the debate over all symbols of the confederacy, robert ray, al jazeera, atlanta. andy richardson with the sport. >> thanks so much barbara, achievement arriving at the right place for the game and little is known in the careers of palestinian footballers and for the first time in 15 years as sized from the occupied west bank in gaza to play a rival team and had to get permission for the athlete to travel across the territory and there is a 24 hour delay the sport has made it and palestine accused israel of restricting it between footballers and the west bank and they say they have no control over their government's security forces. >> we are very happy to come to

gaza because it's the first time they are facing problems in gaza against the people here and against everybody and citizens are suffering. we are here for sports. i don't want to speak about politics but it's very important for us to come and show the world that the palestinians are united and together. >> reporter: athletics body has strongly rejected allegations about widespread doping in the sport and claims in a german documentary and english newspaper are sensationalist and misleading and has done everything in its means to have an effective blood testing program and the world antidoping agency was well informed of our testing and never once questioned its competence. the database is not a secret document but was never meant to find its way in the public domain. kenya is one country facing allegations of being involved in a systematic doping program. the country's former marathon world record holder disputes

that charge. the late data medical says that dozens of kenya runners produced results that were highly suggestive of doping and the athletics bodies say they are a part of a smear campaign but says more could be done to protect more young runners. >> something very big and in kenya not only much but comes to creating awareness and making sure that the control mission is really done. of course many athletes are not fully aware of what these drugs are or how to avoid. >> specific for that to go and athletes because all athletes will not be put in a position or

damage the image of the athletes who are good in sports. >> reporter: adam goodes returned for the footballer and subject of a fierce racism debate and he was taken indefinitely from the sport after months of booing from supporters and he is expected to return to the next game on saturday in the swans. >> last week there has been a lot of discussion, a lot i have not read but involved in before and i think those discussions needed to be had and i'm really hopeful those discussions are behind us now and we can all move on. i think people had doping and spoken about the issues and hopefully now we can move forward and for me it's about going out there and playing football. >> reporter: mitchell johnson says jimmy anderson's absence will be a massive loss for the host and they were 2-1 in the five-match serious and resumes

on wednesday in noting ham and was pivotal to the test and inju injury. >> massive loss for them that is for sure. and, you know, you have to bring somebody else in and has to match him and it's going to be pretty difficult to do but we will miss him but they are on a high as well and they will keep riding that high i'm sure. >> admitting the test match but i genuinely believe he is confident of making this and do everything he can to be right for that but having him around he is obviously an integral part of the squad having his feedback so he might be able to help out with that. dallas cowboys and jerry jones said he was happy to see two of his players fighting in training and he said incidents like this are quite normal and they are clashing with the quarterback there and he is well-known for his confrontational behavior and tony roma stepped in and tried

to diffuse the situation. andy murray looking to put wimbledon disappointment behind him as he goes to the u.s. open and the two time leader champion is in washington, there he is, for the city open and took time out to take a tour of the white house. he is just home on the country's hard course and won the u.s. open in 2012. >> i wanted to just try and sort of stay and match and played a lot of matches over the last few months and thought it would be good to try and keep that going so that is why i came here. it's very tough conditions so it's good preparation for the rest of the american hard core swing. >> reporter: plenty more sport from me in a couple hours time and that sit for me barbara. >> that is it for this news hour and my barbara sarah and julie mcdonald will take over in a few minutes with more of the day's news and i hope you will join us for that, good-bye.

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♪ as more migrants arrive in italy new figures reveal just how many fail in their attempt to make the dangerous mediterranean crossing. ♪ hello, i'm julie and this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up, two sides of iran's nuclear deal and israel prime minister have groups to block it and a barrel bomber appears to make his case for it. going to dissent in the taliban and another senior official against the group's new leader. and myanmar cries out for