i'm tony harris in new york. the news continues next live from london. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, i'm lauren taylor, this is the news hour live from london and coming up, at least 55 people were killed in a bomb attack at a crowded market in iraq. rising death toll in china's huge explosions with at least 50 now killed and 700 injured. 7 people sentenced to death in pakistan for last year's attack on a peshawar skill that killed 51 people. floods force more than 11,000

from their homes. and in sport dustin johnson is leading the pga championship, the final major tournament of the year and rory mcel roy is back to defend. the explosion tore through a crowded market in a mainly shia muslim area killing at least 55 people, 200 more are injured. mohamed reports now from the iraqi capitol. >> reporter: in the blink of an eye the scene turned from mundane to murder as a truck packed with explosives blew up in a crowded vegetable market in the city. the predominately shia muslim neighborhood in eastern baghdad is one of the capitol's most densely populated.

as some searched for survivors others found the dead. because the early morning attack was apparently planned to maximize civilian casualties many knew this would be the work of i.s.i.l. it was the third attack by the group in as many days. under scoring just how tenuous the security situation here is. on tuesday i.s.i.l. attacked two other areas where many shia muslims live and dozens were killed and dozens more injured. attempts to deepen sectarian lines at a time when increasing numbers of iraqis are demanding the government work together. fed up with lack of services like electricity and clean water tens of thousands have been demonstrating against corruption, a call that alarmed iraqi leaders who quickly passed sweeping reforms. and it's unclear how the attack in the city may affect the turn

out especially in baghdad which experienced another brutal reminder of the security crisis in this country. mohamed, al jazeera, baghdad. the blast is one of the biggest strikes on baghdad since hadi took office in 2004 and i.s.i.l. attacks escalated as they move to drive the group out of the stronghold in anbar and monday 58 were killed and more than 100 injured in two blasts and the market attack in july killed around 86 people and many of those killed were women and childr children. u.s. army chief of staff on friday is quoted as saying it

could be the only solution and they say the reported comments are irresponsible and with me now is a former iraqi diplomate and director of the iraq foundation works for democracy and human rights in iraq and just to go back to the comments the reporter comments what did you make of those? >> well, serve the iraq world and has his own problems with the administration, how to run the world and what he is saying is a simple fact iraq's future is grim and the political process has reached an impasse based on sectarianism and factionism and this way they cannot come to decision. also the question of fighting i.s.i.l., da'esh, is also not as efficient as the american would love to and maybe partly because

american didn't come with forces as well as the iraq army not doing their bit or this major question is if we want to save iraq they need a new approach to start with it and has to change the internal front which is with corruption, with malpractices and i think a bad decision to start with this package of reform, this is a good indication and could be a beginning but it could be a long hold. >> that is parliament for us and the first hurdle that it should be approved by parliament and it happened and what are you going to do, and what people are saying is that corruption is indemeanoric and where do you start with transparency international it's number five in the top most corrupt countries in the world, where do you see beyond saying these are a few posts i'm going to get rid of, what does he do? >> well, start with he has to be sure he will be able to put the

parliament and the political groups under pressure and this sense the demonstration in the peaceful demonstration as well as the backing of the shia ledger is vital for him. in addition to that he has to come now because the situation in iraq cannot be in a very desperate situation. now the people who are living under the line of poverty is 40%, the economy is in shambles. he has to start efficiently and quickly and also he would be, he has to face the problem of over expectation of the iraqi people. they are looking for blood. they want to see minister resigns and changing here and there. all this could be done but it takes time. on the other hand badi has constituency and this is effectiveness in iraq and so the people are calling on him to

wear the national instead of the party and i think that within the coming few days there will be other steps. >> on the kind of the reform plan and the anbar aid to start this process, tell us why anbar is so important and what difference that action might make? >> unfortunately anbar because they are the result of the previous election and it was corrupt. it was influenced here and there. and so many people who earlier were really not represented of the people. it is ironic to know that the anbar people and generally arab sunnis are critical of the sunni leadership in the government. so this is a sign they need to change. here is the momentum of change that it began. who will install it, there will be many forces who try to stall it. >> okay, thank you very much

indeed for coming to talk to us, we really appreciate your time. thank you. the death toll from huge explosions in the china port city of tianjin is 50 and show the aftermath of the blast and 700 are injured and 56 firemen are missing and this is for homes for people who have been forced out of their homes. >> reporter: the heart of one of china's most important economic hubs attorney apart by multiple blasts. fires burned throughout the night, there were further explosions on thursday afternoon. as a pool of toxic smoke billowed across the city and local people not concerned for the first time about the air they are now breathing. >> translator: very worried about what chemical is in the

air and worried it could be toxic and harmful in the future. >> reporter: close to the epicenter of the explosions the scale of the destruction is difficult for days and survivors to comprehend what happened and why. >> translator: i thought it was a gas explosion, my bedroom wall was hit by a shock wave which threw me out of bed. >> reporter: others thought it was an earthquake or a nuclear explosion. windows were shattered in homes almost two kilometers away, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of families. the flying debris sliced through hundreds of vehicles. temporary housing for migrant workers bore the brunt of the blasts. this is a workers dorm and it has been completely shredded. and it bears testament to the force of the multiple explosions. the people in here were lucky to get out alive. the number of dead is continuing to rise. many of them were firefighters.

government officials say hundreds of people were treated in hospital, mostly for cuts caused by flying glass and concrete. >> translator: my first reaction was to run. i then heard another blast. i escaped and was running wild. i got blood all over my body. >> reporter: the authorities say the blasts were caused by chemicals stored in a warehouse close to where thousands of people lived. and investigation into how that was possible has now begun. adrian brown, al jazeera, in tianjin. sentenced to death in pakistan including a school that killed 150 people most of them children. an 8th person will spend life in prison and it was stormed by gunmen in december last year and the army says those sentenced for their involvement in the school attack are members of taliban and two local armed groups. our correspondent kamal has this

up da update. >> reporter: have been sentenced to death include the perpetrators of the attack on army public school in 2014 and also one of the people dead was involved on the attack on the minority bus in karachi and one of the attackers who was found in the attack was given a lighter sentence of life in prison and all of this is happening with the superimposed room and military courts were indeed legal and there were crimes that were committed by the perpetrated and the military courts now had the jurisdiction to try these people. however, the military said they would still have the right to appeal. people across pakistan are in favor of the death penalty and want the military to be able to

have speedy trials because that was the demand of the people and the special amendment in the constitution known as the 21st amendment so there is support on the ground, however civil rights organizations would be criticizing the move saying that the death penalty should be abolished. egyptian court has handed jail terms to four policemen over the deaths of 37 people who had been protesting in the ousted president mohamed morsi and there is eight years between them and we look back at the details of the case. >> reporter: august 2013 and death has become a regular occurrence in the chaotic streets of cairo, a month since the first democratically elected president mohamed morsi has been toppled by the military and struggle to find the bodies who fought with security forces and some look for family members

among the 37 prisoners gassed to death in a van carrying them to the jail. most of those killed in the van are later identified as morsi supporters rounded up when a camp was clear but some are just passersby, arrested by mistake and jammed in the over crowded space. crowds gather at a nearby morgue and the prisoners rioted and tear gas was fired in the van to try to free a captured and beaten place man. the van is sealed. the prisoners suffocate and die. the officer-in-charge of the n convow is officer faruk. >> my brother was transferred to the prison and the prison was attacked and we don't know what happened to him, we were told prisoners were killed and planned to visit him and many were killed so we came to the morgue to check for him. >> reporter: in march 2014 captain faruk is sentenced to

ten years in jail for the manslaughter of the prisoners and the other officers got suspended sentences. it's the first time since the ousting of president mohamed morsi they faced trial over the deaths of demonstrators. outside the court violence breaks out. three months later in june captain faruk's sentence is quashed on appeal. this latest verdict is from egypt's highest court. it is final and cannot be appealed. rob matherson, al jazeera. five people arrested over attack in bahrain last month and july 28th bombing targeted a bus carrying policemen near a school south of the capitol and two officers were killed and six others wounded and the chief of police says investigators have connected the suspect to iran's revolutionary guard as well as the iran funded hezbollah group.

aleppo has access to water again after being cutoff for three weeks and u.n. children's fun known as unicef restored supplies to the city and they were cutoff in july after al-qaeda's nusra front closed the station and they were forced to drink untreated water from wells and unicef says half a million people are struggling to receive enough water to survive. still ahead prediction ebola could be defeated by year's end. speculation about early elections in turkey is coalition talks break down between the government and opposition. and in sport how on court comments caused more off court problems for tennis' most controversial players. ♪ yemeni officials say six

civilians killed in thai as reenforcements arrive to help maintain the rebel's grip on the city as pro-government forces get more ground from forces and 125 kilometers from the capitol sanaa and people loyal to hadi have taken six districts and he is on an official visit to united emirates for talks and it has been a key backer of the saudi-led coalition attempting to roll back the houthi advance. world health organization says it could defeat ebola virus by the end of the year and director of who chan made a comment with united nations security council and warned against complacency and saying one case can ignite a flare-up and it erupted last year and infected 30,000 and killed more than 11,000.

>> if the current intensity of case action and contract tracing is sustained, the virus can be defeated by the end of this year. that means going to zero and staying at zero. from the world health organization spoke to us earlier saying the predictions are not premature, all groups of the ground need to be vigilant. >> it is very, very important that we do not get complacent, together with the population, together with the turkey and all those who have been involved in this response so far. we have seen that one unsafe burial can lead to a number of new transmission chains so we have to be vigilant what we got from the first trial it seems that the vaccine is safe and efficient and again and further studies are needed and need more research to be absolutely sure that the vaccine is playing a big role in ebola outbreaks.

really for the time being we have to focus on these traditional methods that we have been using these past months that helped us to basically get down to the small number of new infections but again vaccine and work on a new vaccine is a very promising sign and hopefully can be an encouraging new tool in the future. myanmar's ruling party is absent as they strengthen political grip ahead of elections and soldiers surrounded the headquarters and it has been gripped by in fighting for months. >> reporter: limited access and in and out of the headquarters of the ruling union solidarity and development party and surrounded by security forces locking many mps inside. for months there has been an internal power struggle between the chairman of the ruling party and the president.

both are fmer top military officers and both said they want to run for president in november's general election. but to declare the candidates before friday's deadline also included an announcement that mann had been dismissed. >> translator: he is not on the new list of the central committee but he is still chairman of the lower house of parliament and union parliament and also listed as a candidate of the lower house and the party too. >> reporter: the secretary-general of the party has also been dismissed and questions of what it means for both men and their position on the ruling party. >> the army and to some extent he and his ministers feel that he has been a traitor, that he hasn't actually been playing ball with the executive and that he has been trying to manipulate the parliament to change the constitution when, in fact, the

army and the president are not ready for it. >> it's also being seen as a blow to myanmar's path to democracy, just three months before the general election. it's supposed to be the least restricted since the decade's old military handed over power four years ago. but in fighting and public protests have already caused election unrest. the party of opposition leader is expected to make major gains in the election. she is not allowed to run for president. the law abandons candidates with children with foreign passports. november's election is being seen by the international community as a test of whether myanmar commanders really are ready to loosen their grip on power, erica woods al jazeera. the president of the west african nation has dismissed the government. and has been president since elections in june last year. but there have been months of in fighting between them and prime

minister over division of power. and donors previously threatened to withhold one billion dollars in aid if he failed to maintain stability. since 1980 he has under gone nine coups or attempted coups. and we are live from paris and a senior analyst think tank the international crisis group and thanks for being with us and why has the president dismissed the prime minister? >> well, it's not very much a surprise. both the president and prime minister are from the same party and then they are pretty much the heads of the two biggest opposed factions from within the party. the president has blamed a number of things on his prime minister in an address he made yesterday but it's a struggle about power, about who runs the show and the prime minister according to the constitution has a lot of influence. >> hasn't this government hasn't been in power for a particularly long time, what can you expect to happen, can it withstand all this tension?

>> well, this kind of thing has happened before in 2006, 2007, changes of prime minister coming from the same party actually from within the pages so there is an institutional way to handle the issue. it's maybe less than the fact this is really not a very encouraging move in a country that has had huge difficulties of reaching out to international partners and the stability and the fact there is an inclusive government and with other parties, the ta fact that the prime minister, the one who has been fired, the good city to reach out to donors and the fact there was sort of promise of international stability, i think all those were interesting points for him and this is being threatened right now. >> and the accusations it's essentially kind of a hub for cocaine smuggling and talk through a little bit of that and is that a fair assessment of

where the state of the country is in. >> old face in africa should be asked questions about how they are ending the drug trade. very significant seizures throughout west africa and guinea. it's not much different really. possibly the fact that tell level at which the drug traffickers were able to operate in guinea had close connections to eye level officials. maybe that is a bit more intense but it's throughout the west african region. >> how much is the risk of the turmoil for the aid that goes to the country? tell us a little bit about that. >> i know, exactly, there is a real credibility problem and the fact that stability was there was an important aspect of getting donors interested again in this very tiny country. it's a tiny country. it doesn't have a huge impact on some regional issues, global

issues and difficult to attack attention and the other problem that may come as well is that in trying to create or strengthen the faction the president has made it also alliances with all sorts of people and it's not clear that it's going to be able to carry on the reform agenda, you know, i mean build such a large and somewhat messy coalition. >> okay, from the international crisis group and thank you very much indeed for talking to us. >> you're welcome. reform child labor laws one of the many pieces of legislation stalled in india's parliament because of squabbling between rival politicians and there are few signs that things will improve any time soon and we report from new deli. >> reporter: this has been the scene inside india's parliament since session began last month with disrupting proceedings over

their alleged involvement in several scandals and failed to find agreement and the issues still remain. one of them looked at amending the country labor laws by illegally allowing children to work in the family business outside school hours. on the eastern edge of the capital her children work alongside her and this takes an entire day to make and will earn the family just under $3, had the bill passed she could legally put her children to work. >> translator: my husband works but he makes very little. and if the kids didn't work it would be hard to get money to feed and raise the family. >> reporter: child activistst see it as a loophole to child labor and says there is no definition of a family business. >> they were already working in the establishments when it's not legal. imagine what would happen, how companies might like to push

manufacturing and outsource more of the work into homes if we did have such a law in place. >> reporter: because the bill is postponed none of these issues have yet been addressed yet alone debated. besides creating a headache for the government the bill has not passed the session, one on juvenile crimes and one on transgender rights and risked to be delayed or abandon and the bills that make it to the next parliamentary session they will have to compete for time and attention for legislation. they warn that simply pushing the bills to the next session not only potentially waters down the bills but also the legislative process. >> it would get abused and parliament effectiveness in the process would get abused and what they want to highlight would get abused and the government would be under more pressure to get legislation through because they lost four months and because of the bill did not get passed in the

session. >> reporter: that means for now the people behind the issue the bills are meant to address will remain in limbo. al jazeera, new deli. still ahead on the program the video that has put five soldiers behind bars and shocked a central american nation. a new cooking fuel that is better for health and the environment in africa. and in sport we will hear about the football game in the occupied west bank that has been 15 years in the making. ♪

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involvement in an army run school where more than 150 people were killed, most of them children. greek officials say they are coping a lot better with huge numbers of migrants stuck on the island and police set up a temporary processing center in a stadium and issuing travel papers allowing migrants to get to the mainland and hundreds are arriving daily on boats from turkey after fleeing from war-torn countries like syria. >> translator: the registration process is going very well. it's very important to say that police were working until 4:00 a.m. yesterday and started again very early today. about 700-1000 people are being registered everyday and i believe most of the people here will be registered by the weekend and the situation will no longer be so intense. meanwhile the greek government is asking parliament to approve an 85 billion euro

bailout deal toaf foyered de -- to avoid defaulting next week and are we really sure this will go through there is? >> well, it should on the strength partly of the opposition vote and what we saw last month when the framework law for the third bailout loan was passed was that cities and the independent greek's coalition partner who hold 165 seats in this 300-seat legislature behind me together lost 39 of their votes but the bill still passed, a threshold of 151 votes had to be covered because the conservatives supported it and we thought it would logically take place and the problem is if they lose that many mps or more possibly this time around as it now begins to

implement the stipulations of the third bailout agreement it may be weakened politically and means in the chamber in terms of practical ability to pass more legislation because further bills are expected very, very soon which will put into place further provisions of this bailout agreement but also in a psychological sense, in the public perceptions so that may ultimately undermine its ability to put into effect all they signed up for. >> tell us a little bit whether there is any kind of public opposition to this, after all virtually not to have austerity is what they ended up with and they are back the street and have they got demonstration fatigue? >> well, don't forget it's the middle of august. we have had a demonstration here behind us on the square but it's mostly the parties to the left who have shown up, particularly the commonest party which sees a

political opportunity and a conundrum of whether to take greece out of the euro zone or austerity and went for the latter and joined the ranks of austerity block and socialists and conservatives and greek and those who have seen the popularity dwindle over the last five years as they try to implement more spending cuts so the communist are here for opportunity reasons. the bill is not entirely bad and it has liberalization measures the country needed and commodities market is becoming liberalized and gas markets will be fully liberalized and there is going to be the bankruptcy law is going to be made much more flexible so that about 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises which are still on the books but are deemed to be practically defunct because they don't have the money to continue

operating will now find it more easier to go under bankruptcy protection but make no mistake there are also spending cuts. the outgoing social welfare administer thinks pensioners for one will lose about $3 billion worth of pension money just this year and next because of what is contained in this bill. so, yes, there are people out there who are deeply unhappy and not in town at the moment and are escaping the city heat but their unhappiness will be much more visible in the autumn, lauren. >> thank you for the live update from athens. turkey's main opposition party says talks to former coalition with a govern act party have failed and meetings between the prime minister lasted two hours and he has one more week to decide on the coalition or call for an early election. >> translator: considering a government partnership is not

formed with the republican people's party after a month-long negotiation. early elections are a possibility, a strong possibility. >> reporter: the grand bizarre in istanbul is nearly six centuries old and hundreds of thousands of visitors walk through it everyday but its roof needs urgent repairs and may even come crashing down without restoration and we report as part of the series on preserving global heritage. >> reporter: above the half a million shoppers and tourists that walk through istanbul's grand bizarre everyday emergency support is all that is stopping this ancient roof from crashing down. decades of neglect and water damage have left brick work crumbling. sammy from istanbul's chamber of architect is shocked by the danger the roof poses. >> translator: right now safety is at stake. istanbul is in an earthquake

zone and expecting a serious quake but actually with the building in this condition we don't have to wait for a quake, it could collapse at any time. the building is barely standing right now and the reenforcing measures which have been taken obviously are not enough. >> reporter: a few days after our interview a torrential rainstorm exposed how vulnerable the roof is. the roof of the grand bizarre was once covered with lead but 30 years ago in a botched restoration the lead was stripped and replaced with tiles and cement. and he represents the grand bizarre's traders and admits it's a wonder the bizarre hasn't yet gone up in flames. >> translator: we had our own small fire fighting team but these days they can spread rapidly and ignite quickly at night in these types of structures, if that happens we don't have pipes to circulate air and we need new chimneys and

smoke detectors. >> reporter: the work should begin by the end of this year. two years behind schedule. it's been slowed down by bureaucracy and the fact that the almost 4,000 businesses here and when the renovation work eventually starts it's going to talk about five years because they are only going to work at night so that they don't have to close the bizarre during the day. until that work is finished the traders here can only hope there will be no earthquakes or tremors. for 560 years deals have been made and bargains struck with the brand bizarre but if delays are delayed longer the traders and the city's rich cultural heritage that end up paying a heavy price. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. in part two of the global heritage series on friday will be in the west bank city of ramala, palestinian

archeologists discovered the burial place of st. steven who is believed to be the first christian martyr and will hope for more visits and restricts the tourists. a new type of cooking oil is being promoted by nigerian manufacturing as better for the environment and people's health and it's only available in west africa but believe the oil has much more potential and carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: at home in legos she is using a new kind of cooking fuel that helps her breathe more easily, she suffers from asthma and also environmentally aware and is very glad to find a bio gel that comes from a sustainable force. >> it will definitely be good for me which means that my kitchen, my environment has oxygen which gives life. >> reporter: the gel released as carbon dioxide but far less toxic than the fumes by burning

wood and charcoal and uses the sawdust from mills that would go to west and an invasive weed which is one of the world's fastest growing plants, when plants grow they absorb carbon dioxide and makes it better than fossil fuels which release more carbon dioxide and linked to global warning. >> there is so much that we could create a world that is green and clean and that has helped my thinking in ways by which i want to invest and we want to put my money to work and the kind of legacy i want to leave behind. >> reporter: some other bio fuels create ethanol from crops like sugar cane denying people valuable fuel sources and they need to be produced from a resource that is widely available and less in demand like sawdust weeds used by the nigerian start up.

>> the amounts you will need for a truly sustainable solution for africa in the next two, three decades are very significant. and therefore it's important to start already now looking at such much more advanced fuel. >> reporter: the bio gel being produced in nigeria and sold in ghanna and requires a special stove that costs $14 u.s. dollars and the fuel costs 5 cents and selling to 350,000 households so far. cooks like i rein converted to the green gel with a promising future. carolyn malone, al jazeera. five guatemala soldiers behind bars accused of brutally beating two young men and it was videotaped on a mobile phone and put online and it questions the military's continued role in civilian policing and david reports. >> reporter: abuse of power

captured on video, guatemala soldiers viciously beat two men many a town two hours west of guatemala city and it was rumed they were delinquents and warned this is how they were trained and it went viral in guatemala with actions and others shocked by the barbarity and disregard for the law and guatemala authorities launched an investigation. on thursday the soldiers in the video were arrested and brought here to public prosecutor's office. over the coming days they will face a judge on allegations of abuse of authority and maltreatment of a minor. more than 15 years they helped with civilian policing combined patrols were set up to assist the police force created at the end of the country's civil war but police are unable to curb violent crime and guatemala's president himself a retired general ordered more soldiers on to the streets.

analysts says that puts guatemala people at risk and combining patrols must be under police command. >> translator: it's worrying that in the video we don't see any police officers in the patrol. in spite of its institutional failings the police are trained to several the community and guaranty the safety of citizens, soldiers in these combined patrols don't have specialized training to carry out this kinds of work. >> reporter: military officials are quick to highlight guatemala's role in peace-keeping missions abroad and support they receive at home. community leaders in the town where the video was recorded signed this document asking that the army continue their patrols. >> translator: i think this was an isolated incident and we are cooperating with relevant authorities to deal with it and i don't think it will have serious repercussions like violators of human rights and we have guatemala institutions and ensure the safety of its citizens. >> reporter: some guatemala

people are calling the soldiers heros and say they should be released. a court will now decide if these men went too far. david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala city. labor unions and civil society groups in ecuador staging a day long national strike on thursday and marching on the capitol and demanding the resignation of raphael and we have more from kito. >> reporter: protesters are gathering here in the center of kito and many of them indigenous groups who traveled more than ten days to come here to the capitol. they will be joined later in the day by workers unions, teachers and doctors, they all have different grievances, some want tax reductions, others want better education and to be able to manage the land and water. now, supporters of the president are also gathering at the same time at the doorsteps of the

presidential palace in support of the president's policies. president raphael enjoyed a very strong popularity merely half of the country still approves of his policies after 8 1/2 years in office. most of these protesters agree on one issue, they want the government to share the plan to amend the constitution that will allow the president raphael to run for a fourth term and president raphael has said any violence will be rejected. people will be detained. and he has said that this strike will be a failure. more rain and strong winds expected in argentina buenos aires province where a series of storms have flooding and thousands forced to leave their homes and at least three people have died and we report from there. >> reporter: trying to take assistance to those cutoff by the water. volunteer firemen are working day and night to help those in

need as the rivers and streams in the northern part of buenos aires flood the area. experts say 35 centimeters of water fell in a matter of days and she lives in lajuan and trying to save what little she has left. >> translator: i have never seen anything like this. last year something similar happened but not like this. this is a disaster. thousands of people have been affected. at the university of lujuan 80 have taken refuge and hundreds of others placed in schools around the city. and she and her daughter say they have no where else to go. >> translator: we lost everything. all our belongings and we are trying to get some clothes and food here but i'm not sure how we are going to go on. >> reporter: this is the second flooding in the last year. the sixth in the last four. people have been living in this university for almost five days

and most of them have been victims of flooding in the past and that is why they are demanding more government action. the government says they have invested millions of dollars in the area. and he claims more funds are needed to prevent the river from flooding again. >> translator: we understand that large-scale developments need to happen here. they need to broaden the river so it adjusts for the increased water levels, after six floods more precautions need to be taken but can only be done by the federal government. >> reporter: many of those effected live in the city's poorest areas near the river. they claim they cannot afford to move. they only hope that immediate action is taken so the next storm doesn't force them out of their homes. al jazeera, argentina. the colorado river is showing signs of improvement after last week's toxic contamination, the head of the epa is facing criticism over the

way the emergency was handled. and we report the agency may be sued by those effected by the spill. >> reporter: the farmers of ship rock are angry. >> due to the fact we are denied freshwater and access only to water that has toxins we are in a world crisis. human rights. the basic human right is to have freshwater. >> reporter: this chapter of the navajo nation rely on the san juan water for crops and livestock and the river where last week's plume of toxic waste was spotted runs into the san juan and the leak occurred on wednesday and were told thursday afternoon and wasn't told much. >> did not tell us any specifics as to how much waste was coming our way or what was contained in it. we apparently were supposed to do our own research.

>> reporter: ship rock's livestock has to rely on one watertanker, circulating the 42 square kilometer reservation. as for the crops there is the rain. >> it would have to come on a regular basis once a week and it would have to be substantial rain to soak into the ground. >> the season is lost. >> the season is lost. >> reporter: the epa has released some test results. >> the levels have returned to preevent conditions. >> reporter: but the navajo are going to wait for the results of their own independent tests before they take the epa at its word, the epa has been criticized but there is criticism of others too. this is the little town of silverton, it's long resisted a major federally cleanup of the leaking abandon mines and it was from here that the toxic waste entered the river.

>> silverton's fears was reduction of property values and tourism and it's a community that would really like to mine and a real reluctance about having a federal agency taking control. >> reporter: so for decades a few hundred meters from tourists catching the steam train on the silverton railroad toxic metals were making the same journey in the river and there is debate underway and will the spill mean concerted action is finally taken to address 100 years of waterway pollution here from unregulated mines or will the epa take the fall for the clumsy attempt at remediation and things will return to preevent conditions. the epa did cause this spill but it did not create the problem. al jazeera, the navajo nation. still ahead on the program and andy here with the sport including find out if tiger woods could hit golf's major tournament of the year. ♪

♪ it's time for the sport with andy. >> the world's top two golfers mcillroy and spieth tee'd off and spieth has won two majors this rear and mcillroy is back from injury to defend the title and will start with a bogie at the first hold and johnson is the early leader on six under par despite consistently being contention and the american is still to win a major title and tiger woods is trying to avoid missing the cup at the first

major and just finished the first round and trouble on three over par and johnson out in fronts on his own for now with a two-shot lead with a 66. five years ago this whistling course in wisconsin he was within sight of the trophy before guilty of a minor rules violation and cost him two shots and the title. controversial australia tennis player nick is in trouble again and fined undisclosed amount with an incident with his second round match at the masters and caught on camera making a lewd remark about his girlfriend and he apologized and he went to retire to the match from injury and posted on twitter and said i would not say to my worst enemy and beyond belief and i hope the governing body doesn't stand for this and this is what he has to

say. >> you know, i thought you know he was getting a bit lippy at me and just in the moment sort of stuff and i didn't really know. i just said it. >> reporter: nadal hard court season off with a two set victory over ukraine and he has dropped to number nine in the world rankings. after making early exits at the french open and wimbledon and he has one more hard court warm up tournament before the final grand slam of the season at the end of the month and beating world 60 in straight sets. >> won by the game during the whole night and 5-4 in the first set. the rest was positive match i think. second seed andy murray through to the last 16 of the

match against tommy had been stopped by some rain on wednesday. and fall in the first set and murray returned for 6-4, 7-5 victory and he will face luxenburg in round three. goal keeper and madrid target won't be considered for friday's primi game left out of the team for the opening game of the season and set to play at the villa and united the way forward and key to a successful season. >> we have to improve the way measures because at home we were one of the best i think in the league of points and i want to create from the efforts so we did that away, we have to improve a lot. a football team will play a

match of opponents in the occupied west bank for the first time in 15 years and they will play in the second leg of the palestine cup and given permission to cross israeli territory and last week there was a reverse goal entry of the match and 0-0 and regardless of the final score this will be a victory for palestinians. >> translator: this is the first victory in 15 years because the israeli occupation authorities separated the clubs in gaza but now the palestinian sport is united. i hope that the palestinian politicians will come together and unite. therefore this is a historic day. >> reporter: in cricket india against sri-lanka and the captain and problems got worst when they lost two quick second innings wick ets and one of the former players said fans just need to be patient. >> we are going in a space so it

will take time so i think at least one or to years to become again, we had so many great players all retired and the young players are playing so a little bit of struggling so advantage for india at the moment. great ball to a great pitcher and he has become only the second japanese player in history to throw a no hitter in baseball for the seattle against the baltimore orioles and a base hit from one of his pitches as he struck out seven and walked through and the first hitter by an american pitcher in nearly three years and the only other japanese player to achieve that place. okay, plenty more sport from me later on but that is it for me now. andy thanks indeed and that is it for the news hour and mary ann will be here in a couple of minutes for another full round

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♪ a truck bomb explodes in a crowded market in baghdad, 55 killed and 200 injured. ♪ hello, i'm mary ann and this is al jazeera live from london and coming up, dozens dead, hundreds injured and thousands left homeless after multiple explosions ripped through the chinese port of tianjin plus in northern buenos aires argentina where dozens of people have been forced out of their homes by the