goodnight. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes saudi backed forces make significant gains against houthi rebels in a key province. parliament approves a sweeping set of reforms aimed at reducing government corruption. anger in japan as the country restarts its first nuclear plant since the fukushima disaster.

and they have walked for days to escape oppression and we meet the people desperate to find refuge. ♪ hello and we begin in yemen where pro-government forces are making major gains against houthi rebels and pushed them from the lost town in the province in the south here which is still under houthi control and when you aid aiden further south and saleh means most of the southern region is now held by forces loyal to the exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi. there is still heavy fighting a little further to the north and also the central provinces here and the houthis remain firmly in control of the capitol sanaa which they captured last september. carolyn malone has the latest

for us. >> reporter: watching over the province now entirely in the control of pro-government forces local resistance groups backed by a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia are recapturing parts of yemen. they fought houthi rebels and forces loyal to the president abd rabbuh mansur hadi in town and say they are now in full control. >> translator: we managed to clean the city of malitia supporting saleh and achieved a victory. the popular resistance saved the country from going deep in the unknown. >> reporter: the fighters are looking ahead and say they are on their way to the capitol which the houthi rebels still control and fighting on behalf of the exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi. >> translator: if necessary and if the leaders think it's appropriate we need to go further and go beyond here because the aim is to reach even

sanaa. >> reporter: while that continues people across the country including the capitol don't have enough food, water or basic services. land mines have been left behind by houthi fighters and some children are back playing in the streets but security has not returned. fighting may have ended in some parts of yemen but the suffering continues. carolyn malone, al jazeera. al jazeera correspondent has reported extensively from right across yemen and joins me now at the news desk, a significant move and a significant gain. >> it is because prohadi forces were out gunned, out numbered to where the houthis swept through the south and they had no other direction to set up a government in exile and now for the first time they can tell the international community we have reign and it's under our

control. >> how is it then that suddenly everything is flipped and they are making these gains and effectively the houthis are on the run? >> these gains wouldn't have been possible had it not been for the support of the saudis and the emirates. the saudis led a coalition in may and started pounding houthi areas severely under mining, the capabilities of the houthis but most importantly of saleh because this man has the backing of the elite army which has been trained and equipped by the americans. then the uae and saudi arabia started training forces in saudi arabia and providing them with new weapons and seen recently with armed vehicles and tanks provided by saudi arabia and uae in aiden and they are moving now to the town and this massive gains were only possible because of the significant gains made by the saudis and why saudis,

because they were concerned and houthis will make more gains and have huge influence on the border of saudi arabia. >> so promising perhaps in terms of finding a potential solution from mr. hadi's point of view but really the houthis will not be happy with this, what has been going on behind the scenes in terms of a solution? >> i was asking that same question in the nation official and the problems with the houthis making significant gains we done seem to be willing to negotiate a societal. and i don't see them willing to negotiate a settlement and hadi issued a statement yesterday saying that anything that is not in line with the u.n. resolution 2216 that states the houthis should dismantle from the area of control and recognize hadi as a legitimate leader won't be

accepted by the government in exile and i think the u.n. faces a delicate task trying to convince all the factions in yemen that it's time to negotiate a settlement and put an end to the civil war. >> thank you very much for that, thank you. parliament in iraq have approved sweeping reforms proposed by the prime minister to eradicate corruption and cut spending and wants to abolish three president and three deputy prime ministers and also wants to cancel special privileges enjoyed by officials and set up an anticorruption committee and he wants to make state institutions more accountable by ensuring that officials are appointed on merit. well, mohamed is in baghdad. first off, mohamed are you surprised how quickly this has been approved by parliament? >> well, considering how slowly parliament usually debates these

types of issues, it is quite a shock. but considering how much pressure is on parliament right now to act it's really not that much of a surprise that this happened so quickly. time and again over the past few days we have seen the top leadership of this country so many officials come out and say that they are backing these what they are calling much-needed reforms to fight corruption, these parliament and politicians know they are between a rock and a hard place right now especially since the high religious authority in the country came out and gave the green light for abd rabbuh mansur hadi to fight corruption so everyone realizes they are religion the line and the public is mobilized and motivated right now and thousands upon thousands of people came out in the past week and are planning to come out again this upcoming friday despite the fact they responded positively to the calls.

they have unanimously passed not just the six-point plan by hadi and passed a 16 points that were proposed yesterday by the speaker of parliament. all in all this does look like it's a victory for the demands of the iraqi people but devil is very much in the details here. right now it's going to go to the implementation phase and that is where it could get very, very tricky and quite a bit lengthier. >> in terms of what is going on in the meantime in the background we saw those attacks last night, two attacks and security very much an issue for iraqis on the ground. >> absolutely. the security situation here by most accounts, most of the people i speak with is really in tatters. you have the iraqi government that is continuing to pound home this idea they are winning the war against terror here and yet the anbar offensive not going that well, this offensive started a few weeks back which the iraqi government said it

would take a matter of days to reclaim control in ramadi and fallujah and has not happened and still fighting aisle there and a reminder of how i.s.i.l. can attack in the country and just yesterday evening which 54 civilians were killed and over 80 civilians injured and it's a possibility that casualty count may even rise today so there is a lot of concern about that. and also the site of very similar attacks also claimed by i.s.i.l. at the end of july where hundreds were killed in shia dominated areas and highly populated areas and really adds a warning note as far as sectarianism here and all the battles ahead for iraqi security forces and the dangers that citizens here very much face. >> mohamed thank you very much for that. next a far right jewish settler organization is given eviction notices to four palestinian homes in occupied east jerusalem

and set up tents in the area to protest and any attempt to force the families out and we will go to west jerusalem, this is a very disturbing new development isn't it? >> that's right. very stressful time for the family who for more than five years have been going through the courts and trying to deal with this situation, deal with this far right pro-israeli settler group which is being trying to evict them from the properties in the area of occupied east jerusalem, as we have been saying they have been served with an eviction notice and could be thrown out of their homes, homes they have been in since 1948 since israel effectively was created. and as we have been saying it's extremely stressful time for them. now the real concern for them is not only that the family could be evicted but could lead to

more evictions in the area of occupied east jerusalem. there has been an awful lot of pressure from these far right groups who are supporting settlers in this area and as we have been saying we have been given eviction notices to this specific family. now, we also understand that in the past that the jerusalem mayor has been involved in this case, he was under pressure from the attorney general to not evict these palestinian residents but again it's a very uncertain time for them as they receive the eviction notices. >> who are the settlers to have the power to evict these palestinians, who gave them the power? many people obviously pointing the finger at mr. netanyahu. pandering is the allegation to the jewish settlers and with what happened, that awful tragedy that happened to the family, two deaths there, many

people are now saying that they have come home and now has problems. >> well, i think the bigger issue here is one of israeli law. we have to keep in mind that there are 50 laws passed by israeli lawmakers that are actively discriminating here in israel and internationally. one of those laws effectively allows for jewish heirs if you will can prove they have some sort of tie to east jerusalem and property or otherwise to effectively be able to take over those properties. this same law does not apply to palestinians who can prove that they once owned property in west jerusalem. now, that is a factor at play here but you are absolutely right, one of the bigger issue here is the current government led by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and he

precedes over a coalition government and the far right in history and also made up by political parties which are extremely prosettler. so he is prime minister effectively has to keep that coalition together and effectively also has to ensure that these prosettler parties are, well, happy. now, when these groups which as we have been saying handed out these eviction notices to these palestinian families it is with the support of these prosettler part lers and the prosettler groups are extremely powerful in their own right as well and leading to what the family is dealing with right now. >> interesting stuff, and thank you very much. greece and its international lenders appear to have reached a deal for an 86 billion euro bailout funds and they held talks in athens and the deal raises hope that aid can now be dispersed in time for athens to make the 3.5 billion euro

payment to the ecb which is due next week. protesters in japan have gathered outside a nuclear plant as it restarts for the first time since the fukushima disaster in 2011. the reactor in southern japan is the first to begin operating under new safety rules and marks japan's return to nuclear energy after the 2011 meltdown at the fukushima power plant triggered by an earthquake and the resulting tsunami and harry faucet has more for us from tokyo. >> reporter: 10:30 a.m. local time the control rods removed from reactor one at the power station and it began and the first reactor for nearly two years was back on line in japan and it will produce electricity in about three days time and for the prime minister this is an important moment and arguing through the term it was necessary to get the nuclear

power generation capacity back on line for economic reasons and suddenly in the wake of fukushima it produced some 30% of japan's electricity no longer existed, power costs went up as a result, fossil fuels had to be imported and burned and this represents the first step in that process. it won't be an easy process because the regulations for safety have been toughened and taking a long time reactor by reactor to be approved and when approved we have seen legal cases successfully brought and prohibited restarts and it's a difficult battle still by the prime minister especially given the remaining very strong public opinion against these restarts and some 60% of people in japan according to most polls believe it's wrong to restart reactors to what happened in fukushima and at the power plant they say

the regulations they provided and saying they will not repeat fukushima and can't be believed and the kind of evacuation procedures that are required there, the responsibility for those procedures remains pretty vague and so the opposition remains but this does obviously present the first step of the plan to get nuclear power back online in this country. plenty more coming up, on al jazeera news hour including reporting from buenos aires where the presidential campaign is on and voters remain deeply divided and anxious wait and certain people are being welcomed into poland and enough to make you sick and rio could be feeling the effects of dirty water. ♪

turkish military says it has launched attacks on 17 targets of the kurdistan workers party or p.k.k. in the southeastern province and began targeting kurdish fighters in turkey and neighboring iraq last month. and turkey's fight with the kurds is complicating the coalition's fight against i.s.i.l. al jazeera state department correspondent roslynn jordan explains why. >> reporter: it's in the second year but it's growing more complex and experts say there is much more going on than the coalition efforts to defeat i.s.i.l. >> the americans want to work with the y.p.g. the people's protection unit, the kurdish group in syria and the turks are attacking that group because they don't want it to expand. >> reporter: the turks longstanding goal from creating their own country presents a challenge to the u.s. led coalition's mission.

for much of the past year the turks denied them access to the air base for launching air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets in syria and they also didn't object to kurdish y.p.g. fighters going inside syria until late may and that is when they came close to crossing the river from the east and considered that a threat to security and created a deal with the u.s. for an i.s.i.l. free zone west of here and part of the deal the zone is also supposed to remain kurd free and the turks are now allowing u.s. f-16s and drones to launch attacks on i.s.i.l. in part says u.s. military officials to prevent i.s.i.l. fighters from moving into their country. the other complicating factor turkish forces have been going after the outlawed group p.k.k. because of resent attacks by the p.k.k. inside turkey. now, there is a fear that the turks may use what they consider

a legitimate security threat from the p.k.k. to justify going after kurdish fighters inside syria and thus jeopardize the coalition's mission. u.s. officials say that fear is unfounded. >> the turks have made it clear themselves that certainly inside syria they are focused on counter i.s.i.l. activities. >> reporter: they are not interested in given them freedom for their political agenda it's clear they have bigger plans and the challenge for the u.s. is keeping both focused on the immediate fight against i.s.i.l. al jazeera, the state department. more than 100 people have been arrested in the u.s. city of ferguson after a fourth day of protests and marking a year since the unarmed black teenager michael brown was shot by a policeman and a state of emergency is now in place and we were there as this report.

>> reporter: activists gather at a church in st. louis and prepare to get arrested. >> so we march and we march with the chance and all of that. >> reporter: church leaders and peace activists take part including well-known philosopher cornel west. >> we have a black attorney general and head of homeland security who is black and cannot give justice for poor and black people and now we are moving toward pressure on the federal government. >> reporter: some have come from out of state. this 13-year-old girl is from ferguson. >> the kind of change this brings us and they say we are serious and they will take us serious instead of thinking we are a joke or a game and i don't think there what's been a change because yesterday at the one-year anniversary they shot someone else. >> reporter: they descended on the federal courthouse with a message for the department of justi

justice. about 50 climbed the barricades pushing up against police as the crowd chanted and cheered them on. in less than an hour they were arrested. this has been a textbook case of civil disobedience and everything has gone according to the organizer's plan and they were aggressive and forceful but peaceful. a stark contrast to the evening demonstrations on sunday which were much more tense and unpredictable. activists blocked traffic on west avenue the scene of looting and rioting a year ago refusing orders from police to move to the sidewalk. down the street from the standoff police say several shots were fired between two groups of men, when police pursued one of the men in an unmarked vehicle down the street he shot at them. police fired leaving tyrone harris in critical condition.

>> the police all four fired at the suspect and the suspect fell there. >> reporter: lynch condemned the violence. >> violence obscures any message of peaceful protest, it places the community as well as the officers who are seeking to protect it in harm's way. >> reporter: it was a bloody end to a day of peaceful marches in memory of mike brown whose death at the hand of police one year earlier sparked a national movement, his family had called for peace. al jazeera, ferguson, missouri. in the united states a state of emergency has been declared in colorado, more than 11 million liters of toxic sludge was released from a deceased gold mine into local streams and that was actually three times the amount than previously thought and we have the director of the san juan citizen alliance for clean air, pure water and

healthy land. he hopes the spill will raise the issue of pollution caused by mining. >> as a community we are very sad as well as worried about what the future implications will be for communities up and down the river and you have been to the colorado river and it would be wrong to say we are surprised and unfortunately we have been living with pollution from abandon mines in the head waters for decades if not over a century and it's unfortunate that it happened that there is a silver lining and it will raise the spector of pollution that has been playing in our community for a very long time. unfortunately it's very hard to know at this point and still waiting on critical data from the epa with regards to what exactly the pollution is and how it's disbursing through the eco system and we don't know now and know the immediate impacts were less worse than they could have been so far it appears that fish populations has survived the

initial plume. that is not necessarily an indicator for a medium and long-term health, no one can adequately answer that question right now and i think that is what is causing angst among the communities because we simply don't know. >> reporter: kirchner chose the successor as an open primary and results show how october's election is still up for grabs and we report from buenos aires and voters are deeply divided about who could best tackle the country's problems. >> the presidential campaigning in argentina is officially on. on sunday they voted in the country's primary elections and that turned into a preview of what could happen in october's race. and the powerful governor of buenos aires was the only candidate for the ruling party. he won with almost 38% of the votes. >> translator: argentina doesn't want to go back, they

don't want all the recipes of the past. they want to build on what has been achieved all these years. >> reporter: he lost his right arm in a 1989 boat racing accident got more votes but not enough to win on the first round. the opposition alliance led by the mayor of the city of buenos aires is the main challenger to the ruling party. he promises a change from what he calls are the government's populus policies that led to high inflation and recession. >> translator: i don't believe that presidents know it all. i don't believe in leaders. i want to be a leader of a team that will try to get the best out of everyone. >> reporter: the presidential elections are set for october and will confirm whether the powerful party will remain in power. considered a relatively moderate figure inside the movement and

that is why many of kirchner's followers don't like him but he is a key ally of kirchner as running mate and has a lefte ee stance in campaign speeches promising more spending on education and public works. this is going to be the first election in 12 years that is not going to have the kirchner name in the ballot for the presidency. and she is barred by the constitution for running a third time. even though her popularity remains in the high 30s, analysts say it is far from the 54% approval rating she enjoyed in 2011. >> translator: her popularity has dropped since she was reelecteden and not plummeted like chile and running the campaign without her image because he needs to broaden his support. >> reporter: primary elections were a test and with elections

two months away both candidates will have to convince those on sunday who did not vote for them. al jazeera, buenos aires. we have the weather now with rob and we are going to stay in south america and some bad news there too, rob. >> yes, division between winter cold and winter brazil with a line of persistent rain and satellite pictures shows it well in the last two or three days and this line through the andes is brightly topped and persistent rain in quite a few places and this is where the andes are and falling there and the figures sent to me are for example buenos aires 88 millimeters of rain from the entire system and seems fine over a big plain but stick it in the mountains we have mudslides and chile and this was as a result of rain falling in the mountains and sometimes snow and rushing down and taking mud with

it and yes there have been fatalities and now temporarily this weather is slightly better but over the next 24 hours you have yet more rain coming up, and down the andes chain and snow and it doesn't look overly bad on that side of chile there is near rain on argentina side and the same potential once more. we briefly have time to just jump north and talking about colorado and a bit further north in montana this picture looks like winter and it's a summer storm that brought so much hail it left that scene. there are no more in the system for now but thought it is of interest. >> rob, thank you very much. we have plenty more to come on al jazeera including a major milestone looms for sub sahara and africa as the region is on the verge of eradicating polio and law enforces struggle to put a dent in the philippines thriving drug trade and in sport

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♪ we've got more to come on the al jazeera news hour and let's take you through our top stories and forces in yemen say they have retaken a key southern province from houthi rebels and say they pushed the rebels from the lost

town in the province that was still under houthi control. the iraqi parliament is unanimously voted in favor of prime minister reforms for corruption and cut spending and abd rabbuh mansur hadi wants to abolish six senior positions and establish an anticorruption committee. well despite protests in japan engineers have restarted the first of 25 nuclear reactors under new safety rules and power stations were shut down four years ago following the earthquake and resulting tsunami which caused the reactor meltdowns at fukushima. now, russia says draft ideas are being discussed on how to unite international efforts in the fight against i.s.i.l. the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov made the comment after meeting with his saudi counterpart in moscow and we will get the latest from rory in moscow for us and what has been said about the collective action to end the war in syria?

>> well, the relationship between saudi arabia and russia is very much a work in progress but it is a relationship that both of these two countries are working on at the moment quite firmly. it's the second visit from a dignatory in the last few months, a crown prince visited here in june. but that doesn't seem to be actually that much that is concrete yet that has come out of this relationship. we are hearing the language of possibility, we are hearing the language of continuing discussion. mainly for the reason that russia and saudi arabia don't actually agree on some key issues in the geo political arena and what they stand on roughly the same page is i.s.i.l., i.s.i.s., islamic state, whatever you want to call it and have been talking about it and discussions collaborations between security forces in how to tackle i.s.i.s. but, again, not that much has

actually come out of it in terms of hard policy and they are also talking about establishing some kind of international framework for combatting i.s.i.s., again not that much in terms of policy. the only thing really we heard that is concrete that has come out of this meeting so far is the saudi king is being invited to russia at some point in the future at his convenience. >> okay, that is an update of what is going on so far and the talks are ongoing and we will speak to you through the day on al jazeera, thank you. now sub sahara and africa appears to be on the verge of eradicating polio and because of vaccinations the number of polio cases dropped from half a million in the 1980s to just 34 so far this year. well, at the moment 80% of the world's population lives in

polio-free regions and the americas were declared polio free in 1994 and europe eradicated in 2002 and india and southeast asia followed in 2014 and only two countries in the world remain with a polio indemic and it's pakistan and afghanistan and joining us from geneva, the spokeswoman from the global polio er ratification and this is great news. >> this is great news and we are happy and all the credit goes to health workers in every country in africa who have gone over the years to every single home to vaccinate the children and deserve the credit and it's a moment for celebration and also a moment where we cannot afford to be complacent and the work must go on, the job is not done. >> when you say we can't afford

to be come complacent. >> we know there are children who are not vaccinated in the african content and know there are places where we have not found the virus and we need to be sensitive. the things we need to double our efforts is find children and vaccinate them and find the virus and know where it is to make sure children around it are protected and those are the two areas we need to focus and redouble our efforts. >> how is it that pakistan and afghanistan are described as having a polio indemeanoric and why are they high up on this risk list? >> well, most of pakistan and most of afghanistan are actually polio free. polio is persisting in some parts of both countries and really what we need to do there

as an international community and as the community is there is to again find children who are not being served by the health services and not getting the vaccinations they need and to find the virus to make sure our surveillance is very sensitive and now they are the only two remaining countries we can put all our efforts into those while making sure we really secure this gain in africa. it's a historical gain in africa as you noted. >> reporter: okay, we will leave it there, fantastic news being done there and work being done by the world health organization and thank you for your time. aratria does not have war or famine but the second largest asylum seekers and thousands also make that dangerous trek to find refuge in ethiopia and this report is from northern ethiopia.

>> reporter: there is no let up in the steady stream of people who flee from their country. this heavily disported border is coming up, for them. we found the family at one of 20 crossings on the november northern border they have and they had to walked walk for three days to get here. >> translator: life has become unbearable here and i never wanted to leave my country. i'm a simple shepherd who has no interest in politics but they kept harassing me. >> reporter: they arrive in ethiopia everyday and first taken to screening centers before being transferred to refugee camps. most of those flees are young people who say they want to avoid this, an exercise for men and women finishing school and school labor is supposed to last 18 months many of them are

forced to suffer for decades and he is 21 years old. he has been trying to get out of here since he was 14. >> translator: they have no age limit, as long as you can carry a gun you belong in the military. even my father who is partially blind is in the army. i don't want to lead that kind of life. >> reporter: young children have been leaving and thousands as young as six and seven are unaccompanied and this is their section of the refugee camp in ethiopia's region. and chairman of the refugee community. >> translator: children are as affected by government policies as the rest of the society. they are forced to flee when their parents are arrested for refusing to join the army. >> reporter: some of the refugees say they want to go to europe. >> other refugees who have been returned or deported after having reached as far as even egypt in a way to cross over

into europe. >> wanted by the number of people who are living the government asked the u.n. security council to bring human traff traffics to justice and many here rarely disagree. northern ethiopia. >> agreed to accept 2000 asylum seekers as part of the e.u. effort for the crisis but the decision has not been widely welcomed as we report. >> reporter: poland is not a country with a migration problem and at an accommodation center in war saw they wait for the outcome of asylum claims and relatively few in number and most come from neighboring ukraine and migrants from further afield are viewed with deep suspicious according to resent public surveys.

>> i'm afraid it's going to happen like something in france where they wanted to take the process from everywhere from the public places and i think we have to protect sort of our beliefs and our culture. >> reporter: poland's pledge to take 2000 migrants over the next two years is small but significant in a country with strong views about preserving the cultural identity. these men have fled war-torn syria and take english lessons and ask we protect their identities and among a group of 50 families accepted in poland but because they are christians and not muslims. >> we are working with christian leaders, with bishops and priests in syria because we really needed to know the people

we are bringing they are safe to bring. >> what do you mean by that? >> when there is a conflict in syria, there is i.s.i.s. and terrorist there and a war going on and we don't want to import terrorists to poland. >> do you think countries like poland should take more people from syria like yourself, should help more people? >> i think poland now we have to thank her for getting us but i don't know how to dictate that for them but if they can please. >> reporter: as poland will take the place with european nations to ease the migrant crisis there is some sort of a debate taking place here, no to islam and no to islam phobia and it has narrow perimeters and the basis for it is fear. the present government has shown

some willingness to compromise but a likely victory for the right in autumn elections may see this narrow opening to migrants shut. al jazeera, warsaw. around 1,000 fighters battling fires in portugal and hundreds of homes being threatened by the flames, the largest blaze is in the northern region near the spanish border. campsites have been evacuated nearly 80% is considered to be in a state of severe drought. international monitors in haiti say the results of sunday elections should stand despite problems with how the poll was conducted. it was marred by delays, alleged fraud and sporadic violence and as we report from the capitol port au prince the full results won't be known for a week. >> reporter: the streets of port au prince were peaceful and people went about their business

as usual the day after the election. people gathered in the shade of a tree to watch political news shows on haiti television. opinions among haiti people varied and motor bike taxi driver thought the election was a big success. >> translator: everything went smoothly, i voted, it was the best election ever. >> reporter: eve voted but then his polling place was trashed by protesters just like more than 50 others around the country. now he is not sure his vote will count after all. >> translator: because it was a total catastrophe, one of the worst i ever seen. >> reporter: peddling soft drinks from a cart did not bother with the election. >> translator: i didn't go to vote. what is the point when you know we will stay in the same situation? >> reporter: the vote was marred by violence and also by

incompetence and many people did not vote because they had trouble finding their names on list of eligible voters posted at the polling places and opposition political party say the government and the supposedly independent electoral council created confusion at the poles. >> there are some people in haiti who don't want elections, it's a fact. you don't want elections and they want it the same way for to have like stability basically. >> reporter: officials have not revealed the number of votes cast but most observers expect turnout will be low on the order of 15-20%. this is the headquarters of haiti's provisional council and speaking after the polls closed the head of the council said he was satisfied the elections had gone off successfully but human rights groups that monitor voting all over the country tell a different story. >> they said everything was

okay. >> reporter: he directs the haiti human rights defense network. >> add it to our council and they go away for august 9 election and a lot of the violence and illegality and when people went to the vote and couldn't find their name, they couldn't vote. >> reporter: democracy maybe taking root in haiti but it is still very much a work in progress. as a haiti proverb has it little by little the bird builds its nest, port au prince. they seized cocaine and heroin worth a billion dollars and the illegal drugs seized during a four-month mission to intercept traffickers in central america and contained 32 tons of

cocaine and two tons of heroin. the drug trade-in the philippines has become so lucrative that mexican dealers want a piece of it, suspected leaders of the cartel was arrested in manila earlier this year after selling $272000 of cocaine to under cover agents and there are allegations that the drug trade is thrives because people are in colusion and this is from manila. >> reporter: planning the drug raid for months, at the end only six meth were found here, a small quantity where 1 # 100 kilos are consumed everyday according to this woman who asked to keep her identity hidden and 15 years she has worked as a fixer, putting international drug sellers in touch with local distributors and also a police informant.

>> translator: the chinese are the ones who run the biggest in the philippines, it's through connections they are able to come in. >> reporter: some are transported by sea and we also have our own factories here and just bring in the chemicals needed for production. the most popular drug is meth known as shabo but a market for cocaine, marijuana, extasy and there are mexican and west african drug operators. much of what comes in the country does so and what drug enforcers call low volume, high frequency, that is small quantities carried by many carriers creatively like in the lining of suitcases, hidden in the soles of shoes or fabric role or own person. the drugs are mostly consumed locally and officials say many of the users are from less affluent communities and with

less than 900 agent the government's antidrug office says it's doing the best it can. >> about 46% of detainees so i think we are doing enough but sometimes people that are impatient they want the problem to vanish magically. it's not going to happen. >> reporter: he says no matter how hard the government agents work they are not likely to wipe out the trade. >> translator: because the officials themselves protecting it and in some instances they themselves own the business so it would be hard to eradicate this for example like me if i am recognized for sure i will disappear. wiped from this earth. but if you have money, you have the means to fix things then you stay free. >> reporter: it all comes down to money. and there are millions of dollars involved.

law enforcers say they are aware the task isn't easy but they are out to prove despite the challenges they can at least put a dent in the trade. al jazeera, manila. stay with us on al jazeera, coming up, next we will be hearing from the world best golfer as he defenses his title for the last major of the season. ♪

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>> thank you, 15 members of the usa team have come down with a stomach illness after the world junior rowing championships and part of 40 member squad that took a trial run for next year's olympics and there were concerns about the water quality at the venue in the brazil city and independent analysis last month showed high level of viruses and bacteria and the rowers are 16-19 have been suffering vomiting and diarrhea and blame it on water pollution and others reported illnesses at the event with more than 500 young rowers but they are not ruling out the symptoms were caused by food or drinking water. >> translator: i have been coming to this lake for more than 30 years, since i was 13 years old. throughout all this time i never seen any kind of disease. it didn't happen to me and i never saw a disease related to the quality of water and like hepatitis for example and never seen any of these cases and the

quality of the water today is much better than it was five or ten years ago. the olympic committee visiting rio to check on the readiness ahead of next year's games and so far preparations appear to be on targetarget. >> the program brought some of the finest companies in brazil to support the olympic games and delivering the venues on time for the different test events and these venues will be a great legacy to future generations here in this wonderful country. >> reporter: the champions of england for two of the last four years have started a new permi league with 3-nil league and new $70 million signing sterling made his debut for the city but this is his return to form and the ivory coast and vincent and

company got the third. >> started to see some very with a lot of problems and death of his brother and with his agents and so i think that he was not proper of what he had to do last year but we spoke long before this and assure we are going to see the same we saw two seasons ago and happy for him and the team, very important day for us. >> reporter: the season gets on on tuesday in the super cup in the georgian capitol and the game between the winners of the champion and europa and he will be missing because of mumps and barcelona trying to make it the fourth cup after winning the spanish league and the copa-del-ray. >> translator: i don't care if

we are the favorites to win or not, if you think that way of potential and what we received that doesn't matter. what we have to do is start on the pitch and we know the rivals will be a tough one and it was very hard to beat them in resent matches and it's always a difficult situation and exciting to play in the super cup and know we have to do well in order to win. >> europa league are in the super cup for the second year in a row and last year they lost in royal madrid and faced barcelona in the super cup before and won that game 3-nil back in 2006. . >> translator: this is just another opportunity, an opportunity that we, that i, want to make the most of. we are playing a mayor rival and favorites and we have plenty of things in our favor and we are working on our strengths to defeat our rival. >> reporter: the world's best golfer rory mcillroy declared himself 100% fit for the pga

championship, the northern ir h irishman playing at whistling straights ahead of the tournament that begins thursday in wisconsin, an ankle injury has kept him off the course for over a month. he will tee off along world number two jordan spieth in the two rounds and he won two in the season and chasing a third and mcillroy top ranking on his side. >> playing well and winning golf tournaments takes care of the ranking and it's a great position to be in and it's nice to be there but playing well, competing in golf tournaments like this and ultimately winning them keeps you there and that is my main focus this week. if mcillroy defend his title will be the first since tiger woods in 2007, the 14 champion

has gone two years without a title and 7 without a major victory and now ranked 278th in the world. and yakovich will play for the first time with the masters and world one faces thomas baluchi and he won in front of fans and beat portugal in straight sets and face the american champion in round two. and rain delay for fifa first round match but when it got going he needed an hour to get past the french man winning the match 6-3, 6-1. the women's tour and is serena will play but her sister is out

6-love, 6-3 and the first round matches to finish on monday due to rain. two-time olympic champion made a return at the world championship in indonesia and failed to qualify last year in copenhagen and beat the america 21-8, 21-11 and has recently suffered earlier exit in both the taiwan and indonesia open. that is all the sport for now. >> thank you very much. now, if you wanted to clean these windows take a look you probably would need a ladder 320 kilometers long to reach them from earth. they are actually at the international space station and two russians had a way to wash them and stepped out six hours and carrying out one or two tasks and a lot to cleanup and stay tuned, there is more on al

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