>> announcer: this is al jazee jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha, coming up, in the next 60 minutes, south korea warns the north to stop making provocations as kim jong un puts troops on alert. president alexis tsipras. >> the terror, the confusion was something unbearable. >> reporter: two years since chemical attacks in syria killed hundreds and we speak to

survivors still waiting for justice plus macedonia police fire tear gas to stop thousands of refugees crossing the border from greece. in sport tiger woods find ishis range and the best round in more than two years after missing the cup in the p.g.a. championship. ♪ we start on the korean peninsula where the south korea defense ministry is urging the north to stop its provocations, tensions have increased between north and south following exchange of fire on thursday. both countries say they put their militarys on high alert. north korea's leader kim jong un had an emergency meeting late on thursday and according to state media there he told the front

line troops to be fully prepared to launch operations, the south korea government has moved 80 people on the border in bunkers after exchange of artillery fire and we have harry in south korea and it's not the first time we saw racheting up of tensions between north and south korea, what is different this time around? >> well, that is i suppose yet to be seen. we have seen these heightened moments facing off between north and south of the years. i suppose this is the most closely resembling what happened in 2013 when there was all sorts of threats going back and forth across the border from north korea about imminent war and some kind of nuclear strike so this perhaps is not that high in terms of rhetoric but we do have an exchange of fire across the de-military zone which is a

pretty rare thing and south korea has been warning the north and saying if there is further provocation as they term them here there will be a strong counter attack and it was made in person by the president of south korea as she met her national security advisor and defense minister and senior military commanders at a military command post earlier on friday as she was urging the military to take action first and report it later if there was some kind of provocation from the north. it followed as you said earlier a similar meeting which happened on thursday night, headed by kim jong un. kim jong un ordered troops in a quasi state and surprise attacks against the south. >> translator: the general staff of the korean people's army sent ultimatum to the defense ministry saying they would launch action if they do

not stop broadcasting to the north within 48 hours. >> reporter: the speaker is the source of that so called war fair and started the propaganda two weeks ago for the first time in 11 years, it was in response to what happened earlier this month on the other side of the de-military zone and forces planted land mines and maimed two of its soldiers. >> translator: land mine explosions and shelling by north korea are illegal and grave provocations and urged them to stop the reckless and hasty acts. >> reporter: it's the closest civilian area where the north core korean projectile was fired on thursday and hundreds of people were told to leave their homes near the border and only here is the advisory still in place. >> translator: north korea's provocation is likely to continue so we are advising residents to stay in shelters.

there are some who went out mostly to carry out their daily business but we advise them to come back to the shelter this evening. >> reporter: it's mainly the elderly and the young who stayed behind. >> translator: living in this area i've seen many drills and heard explosions but this time the sound was louder and there was an announcement asking us to evacuate compared to the past i'm more concerned. >> reporter: seeking refuge in the shelter is starting to feel like an uncomfortable habit here. just last year the north korean antiaircraft shell fell right here and north korea had been firing propaganda with balloons launched by south korean activists and this time they have the added preoccupation of a deadline ticking down to 5:30 p.m. local time on saturday. south korea says if a military strike follows it will counter attack strongly. so harry in terms of how this might play out from here on we

have heard south korean government told the north to tone it down so it will be interesting to see over the next few hours how the regime in the north reacts to this. >> indeed, there has been no sign of backing down. south korea is saying it will continue broadcasting propaganda messages until the north starts to take note of the political and military considerations and the north obviously doubling down on the deadline threat and other things that it has been saying in resent days. obviously as everyone here says especially officials north korea is extremely unpredictable and could well be it won't carry through on its threat or do something entirely different and there has been a report in the local media the news agency quoting an unknown government source saying it has detected some sort of missile maneuvering and some sort of missile test could be in the offering in the coming days so we have to wait and see what happens. we don't yet know exactly what

the time of this deadline exploration is going to be because south korea has a different time zone of north korea after they moved it back a half an hour and talking 5 p.m. north korean and 5:00 p.m. south korean time, we will have to wait and see. >> a tough peninsula and harry faucet live in seoul. greece's ruling party split, 25 members of parliament say they will form their own movements and this has been since the leader alexis tsipras accepted a bailout program with eu creditors which will lead to more austerity measures hours after alexis tsipras resigned as prime minister and call for new elections and john has more from athens. >> reporter: approximately two dozen members of parliament from the city's alexis tsipras party have broken away from the prime minister's line and said they will form a separate far left

wing group and said this is going to be called the consolidated antiausterity front or the united antiausterity front and it's a play on words of the communist in world war ii where they fought against national forces and that was called the national freedom front. there is no coincidence here, the far left wants the name of its new party to sound like the continuation of the communist fighting formations of old. it wants to suggest to voters they are the true leftist and true inheriters of the world war ii communist generation and they are the ones that will carry the torch forward against austerity, in this case in the upcoming

election. in syria 15 people have been killed in government air raids over eastern aleppo. medical sources told al jazeera the planes targeted a town in the aleppo countryside. it's under i.s.i.l. control and a regular target and opposition activists say the syrian government is deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods. two years ago up to 1500 people died when rockets filled with saran gas struck the town and the government denies being behind the attack and survivors are worried they will never get justice and zaina has the story and a warning that viewers may find some of the images in zaina's report upsetting. >> reporter: the dead and the dying, there was no blood on the bodies and no visible injuries and the attack was different than what they had seen and rockets carrying chemicals landed on the morning of august 21, 2013.

>> translator: it took seconds before i lost my ability to breathe. i wasn't able to breathe or even to scream to alert my friends so i have to like pound my chest really hard just to try to take a single breath. i felt like somebody was tearing up my chest with a knife. >> reporter: 29-year-old survived, hundreds of others didn't, two years later he has a new life in the united states but he remembers that day clearly. >> it was a scene from judgment day. dozens of people, men, women, children running and falling on the ground, suffocating. the terror, the confusion. it was something unbearable. i just didn't know what to do. >> reporter: he did, at the time he was a photographer working in syria. he wanted to document the evidence of a crime he believed the world should see. >> i asked the doctor about what i need to know so he showed me.

he showed me the dark blue of the color that had been sign and the eyes and the things coming out of the mouth. >> reporter: even though he covered the war for many years he says he cannot forget what he saw that day. >> i'm a war photographer and for me to see a dead body with blood, it's normal, and when you see them at first you think they are sleeping. then you realize after like one or two seconds your reality becomes facing what is really going on after the shock. >> reporter: reality faced years before, he was an activist where he filmed the suffering of people who continued to live under siege and since the attack he tried to raise awareness and at the u.n. and u.s. congress but he says it has all been in vain. >> honestly i feel like i did nothing. i feel after all this talking and all the people that i met, not just me, like thousands of

syrians here, we felt like there is no hope. >> reporter: the u.n. did conclude that gas was used in the attack but didn't have the mandate to blame anyone, there is now a new resolution to investigate the chemical attacks in syria and the attacks before 2014 won't be included and yet again denying justice to the people here. beirut. >> reporter: joining us from seoul in the uk by skype is a chemical weapons expert. thank you for being with us. so here we are, two years on, talking about this terrible attack and up to now nobody has been held to account and it doesn't look like that is going to happen any time soon, where would you point the finger of blame for that? >> well, as far as i'm concerned and having been there from the very start and having spoken to al jazeera on the day of the attack i still have no doubt that the regime are responsible

for this, all the evidence points to them and all the evidence i've collected with syria relief doctors has points to the regime. i think there is some hype. i think now the u.n. security council resolution has been passed to investigate these crimes and importantly russia has agreed to support it that if all sides support that then there is a very good chance because the u.n. security council are being told to find out and find out who the perpetrators are and i think they will be found to be a perpetrator and there is hope and hope that these people one day will face their time in the international criminal court just as the generals are from 15 years ago. >> well, you mentioned there what happened with the atrocities in serbia and many blamed the international community for their initial lack of action on that. do you draw any comparisons between the two here and the fact there hasn't been much

action from the international community towards what is happening in syria? >> yes. i'm very disappointed with that. and about two years ago the british government voted in parliament not to take action after guta which was the red line. the british government had another vote fairly shortly coming up, and they have the chance to take action and maybe to destroy islamic state in syria and iraq but that will have an implication. i think the fact that the international community has sort of sat on its collective hands for the last two years certainly hasn't helped and i think when we see the 5 and a half million coming into europe it should galvanize the people and outside

and inside syria say they would like to stay in syria and it's an act to enable them to do that. and i think there is some hope saying turkey and u.s. are talking about north syria and i think it will make a huge difference to allow charities to continue their amazing work in syria so that we can get aid in there. but it's up to the international community now to act, otherwise this is going to drag on and we could well be fighting islamic state in the streets of london, new york and paris if the international community continues to sit on its hands. >> how easy is it in your estimation to get a hold of something like saran gas? the reason i ask that is because of these reports now that i.s.i.l., the reports that i.s.i.l. has been using the same chemical on peshmerga forces in northern iraq so how easily

accessible is this? >> well, it should not be accessible at all but has used mustard gas with the peshmerga just over a week ago and it would appear they got ahold of the chemical weapons either from houssain 45 miles north of baghdad which was over run in july of last year for four months or probably more likely when the u.n. took assad's chemical weapons out of syria last year there was a lot of reporting that some of it went missing and cia believes assad has deadly mustard agents and some went to islamic state and so i suspect it's probably in poor condition and probably don't have very much of it but should re-galvonize efforts to

attack and the islamic state because as they get more desperate the psychological war campaign they are lodging against the community, the ultimate terror weapon is chemical weapons is a kiosk and we need to make sure there are no repeats against peshmerga and other coalition forces that we saw last week. >> good to speak with you, gordon, joining us there from seoul in the uk. australia is considering a request from the u.s. to carry out air strikes against i.s.i.l. in syria. australia is already involved in an air campaign in neighboring iraq and said he will carefully consider the pentagon's request, the decision is expected in a few weeks. israel's army said it killed four member of the armed group

in an air strike and reported that a car was targeted near the village and said five civilians were killed and they carried out a series of attacks on thursday after rockets from syria landed in northern israel and the occupied golan heights and israel said they were fired by islamic jihad and said one of the soldiers was killed in the israeli strikes. plenty more still ahead in the news hour including surrounded by sewage and people in south africa are forced to live dangerously on hygieneic conditions and low on staff and supplies, we are in iraq where the country's healthcare system is struggling to survive. and in sport find out if yanukovich could keep opponent and temper under control during the u.s. open. ♪

ahead the first police in macedonia fired stun grenades to dispurse thousands of refugees trying to cross the border from greece and has a state of emergency on the southern and northern borders and 42000 have entered the country in the last two months and many are fleeing conflicts in iraq, syria and afghanistan. >> translator: we expect the involvement of the army will bring two desired effects and increase security with citizens in the regions and allow comprehensive approach towards people, applying for asylum according to capacity and international obligation signed by macedonia which we want to respect. >> some areas of south africa facing a sewage crisis with rivers of waste flowing through several communities and they are not coping with increased demand and causing a smelly and unhydrogenic problem for people living nearby. tonya page has this report now

from dennysville on the banks of the dam. >> reporter: the dennysville treatment plant is filled to the brim and operating at double capacity because it has not been upgraded to handle the number of people living here and the access is pumped on the road forming a wide, shallow river which goes by people's homes and dead animals and some living float by. cows have been wallowing in it. nearby people are trying to make a living recycling rubbish and the work worse by the added health hazard. >> the water because we are going through the water. >> reporter: the river of waste flows through farmland where water is drawn and treated before being supplied to 10 million consumers and it emerged last month that half the municipalities are releasing unsafe levels of e.coli

bacteria. >> we need to stand up and fight because our constitution and our human rights are being violated here. >> reporter: in a government order of south africa 824 sewage treatment plants roughly half failed the inspections. and 30% were ranked critical. although the picture looks dire overall the government says the water and sanitation situation is improving. >> even though we are looking and we are seeing progressive, upward movement but we cannot be satisfied that we are where we need to be. what kind of assistance do they need and what is it that we need to do. >> reporter: a planned upgrade of the plant can't come soon enough. these cows are eating grass that is growing in the dirty water. the overflow from the sewage treatment plant. but activists say what is worse is that there are plans to replace the cows and farmland with 2 1/2 thousand new homes. and that will put more families

in harm's way. her backyard is regularly flooded by sewage and she has photos to prove it. >> they will come and fix this pipe but they don't do anything. >> reporter: while the government insists it is doing something progress is too slow for families who have to walk past pools of sewage everyday. tonya page, al jazeera, at the dam south africa. we have head of environment affairs for a november governmental organization aimed at protectioning the rights of minorities and joins us from johannesburg and how would you assess the over all water quality in south africa? >> yes, thank you, i think the visual has a picture of the ticking time bomb south africa has on water quality around the country. we also are facing an el nino at

the moment with major droughts in the future in south africa and obviously our water is scarce. we are a water scarce country but the quality is really severe and we need to drastically take steps and fix the whole situation around the country. >> where does it start then and who are the main polluters and what are their major sources of water contamination in south africa? >> i think it's obvious and the water phase and the government is in a state at the moment with co elections next year. so there is a sense of protection but obviously at the end of the day one needs to look at constitutional rights of the environment and food security in the country in general. the biggest polluters currently is our own government, three municipal structures due to wastewater contamination and

sewage water there is 4300 million liters of water that is not properly treated that has been discharged in our water courses everyday. this has a severe, you can obviously see the impact it poses. last year in south africa we saw three babies passing and being hospitalized and 13 babies that passed and the people are walking and children are playing in the sewage and townships, it's really a big issue and if no one is being held accountable it's currently the state in the country we won't see any progress in the near future. unfortunately like i said the water act in the country legislation protects human rights. it's supposed to. it's criminal to pollute water. unfortunately we don't see that the states and its officials are being held accountable for the same neglect and obviously the

contamination of water in the country. >> you talk there about lack of accountability so what needs to change then, i mean what is it going to take to reverse that situation? >> yeah, obviously we need political role to start off with and we are limited with the water resource in the country and if we don't start looking after it we might see bigger threats in the near future and cholera out breaks in zimbabwe way and affected 3,000 and in the past we had about 400,000 people. now the dam which you show in the visuals actually supplies water to 2.7 million people in south africa, that is where joe hand -- johannesburg is and if it's not looked after it could have severe consequences and we

need accountability and law enforcement from our government officials, the department of water has the blue scorpions and they are compliance enforces and need to take the necessary steps and i do personally believe from our point of view as soon as we see a municipal official being locked up due to negligence because you see a lot of corruption in south africa still and these guys are not looking after protecting our water resources and providing good quality service and water then we won't see a difference so we need someone to be locked up to be the example and i think in general water quality will change in south africa if we see the law being implemented. >> acute problem in south africa and good to speak with you from joe j johannesburg and let's lok

at the weather. if you look here you can see them spiralling around and sammy not a problem i don't think, this is north towards japan and then it gets caught up in a jet stream flow and goes way out towards the east. this one, different fish altogether and this is going to tonight to move northward and northeast wards and close to taiwan. the problem with the system is it's getting slower,, in fact, it's going at such a pace at the moment it has a slow jogging pace at 9 kph and it will produce an awful lot of rain going by the island and you have seen the impact and the philippines and you can see the eye wall across the philippines and across central and northern areas of the country and had vast amounts of rain coming down over the last 24 hours and also powerful gusts of wind and 200 kph and i suspect as the system continues to move to the north the gusts in the valleys are

possible for taiwan. we are still going to get heavy showers effecting the philippines went hansed flow coming from the west but eastern side of taiwan as the storm goes slowly by and could see 300 millimeters of rain and the risk of land slides. thanks, richard and ahead on al jazeera silencing critics and journalists in ecuador accuse the government of a witch hunt plus. i'm nicole johnston in islamabad and we will take a ride on this metro bus system and find out whether it's helping the capitol with its problems. and in sport the sprinter who is dividing opinion ahead of the world athletic championships in beijing. ♪

great time for a shiny floor wax, no? not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. timing's important. comcast business knows that. that's why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. even late at night, or on the weekend, if that's what you need. because you have enough to worry about. i did not see that coming. don't deal with disruptions. get better internet installed on your schedule. comcast business. built for business.

hello again you are watching al jazeera and our top stories south korea's president has ordered the military to take action first and report it later and follows an escalation of tensions after an exchange of artillery fire on the peninsula on thursday and north korea says it ordered the troops to be ready forward. the party has split, 25 members of parliament say they will form their own government and comes hours after alexis tsipras resigned as prime minister sand called for new elections. police in macedonia disburse refugees trying to cross the

border from greece and a state of emergency on the southern and northern borders on thursday. secretary hammond will reopen the uk embassy on iran on sunday and the london embassy will be opened at the same time and in 2011 after crowds stormed two diplomatic compound for sanctions imposed by the uk. the reopening of embassys in both countries is a sign of warming relations after iran and major world powers signed a deal on to iran's nuclear program. let's talk to an iranian arthur and journalist and is live via skype and thank you for being with us, first of all what sort of practical effect will this restoring of relations have for both iranians and british

people? >> well, generally for iranians is they will have better access because there are a lot living in the uk and have access of getting visas rather than going to turkey and the bay for getting these others but also i think the british community is very key to go to iran and establish their old relations again and investing in iran and having better trade with iran and these are immediate and also the third factor is as iran's relations with the west is gradually open britain would like to have a warm relationship sorry, a warm relation with britain. >> and what should we read into the timing of this coming just a few weeks after the announcement of that international deal on iran's nuclear program? >> i think it was pressure by the british trade community because they saw the germans and french and other nations sent the senior officials to iran and

therefore i think it was the pressure that britain brought forward, the opening of the embassy because of the prime minister cameroon said it would be opened before the end of the year and brought forward for considerable time for the pressure of the business community. >> and where and i mean obviously if you look back through the history of iran and its relations with the united kingdom, where does this -- there is obviously a section of the population in iran that bears a lot of animosity towards the uk and where does that come from? >> historically britain and russia have been meddling since the 19th century and early 20th century and iran was occupied in the first and second world war and britain was part of it and i think this historic facts remains there. but also we have to remember that this week was the anniversary of 1953 august 1953

where prime minister and democratically elected prime minister was overthrown by the british and american intelligence services and these are all in iranian's mind and also there have been problems after the revolution. there is historic and both psychological and the iran's see in britain as the sort of less as they used to give in the honor and why britain had complaints really of iran's nuclear policy as well as iran's support for radical groups and muslim groups around the world and there are many issues. this opens or reopening of the embassys would be the beginning of the operations and i don't expect it to go back to normal for many years. >> good to speak with you on this, joining us there from london, thanks for your time. now, iraq's top shia iatola has

warned the country faces possible partition and government reforms need ob introduced immediately and the latest is one of several the clerc made and a role in the anticorruption drive. more protests are expected in iraq after friday prayers to keep the pressure on the government to follow-up on its promise of reforms and people are sick of power cuts and food sort shortages and violence and the health system is flat lining. >> reporter: at the hospital the doctor doles out medical care and dispenses hard truths. >> it's a tough challenges and living in a city with violence, daily violence, a city, living in a city with low infrastructures and trying your best to give the best to those patients, it's not easy.

>> reporter: while this government-run facility is cleaner and better stocked than many other hospitals and clinics in iraq, many consider this place decaying and diseased. shortage of supplies and well-trained staff is nothing new in iraq but things are getting worse. even storing medicines at the right temperature is difficult. the medications stored inside here must stay constantly refrigerated and that is why the cooling units have to keep working and during the record heat wave with power cuts this hospital and others are relying on back-up generators. back inside patients find that even on a relatively slow day wait times are long. >> translator: if i had a critical condition and needed immediate surgery, i'd have to wait a month to get my turn and that's not practical at all. >> reporter: going to a private

hospital would be far too expensive for this couple. the ministry of health is not the only institution in the country struggling to deliver medical aid and u.n. recently announced a funding gap forcing 80% of front line services in iraq to shut down. one million people are affected. >> it means all the kids that would be immunized are not going to be immunized and the pregnant women who need help before or after will not receive assistance. >> reporter: three million people are displaced inside iraq. >> it's painful and hurts and the people who need us most right now we are walking away from them. when you are in a clinic that yesterday provides antibiotics and today it's closed because we don't have the funding you have nothing but shame, you are ashamed. >> reporter: another blow to a country whose people need more help but are receiving less and

less. mohamed with al jazeera baghdad. now to the first in our special three-part series cities on the move. today we are in pakistan's capitol islamabad where every week thousands of people from the countryside come to work, until recently there was no public transport but as nicole johnston reports that has now all changed. >> reporter: there is a new way to get around islamabad and commuters seem to love it. the pakistani capitol finally has a public bus. 68 of them, in fact, taking people along a 23 kilometer journey from islamabad and it cut the time it takes to travel between the two cities in half. the stations are spotless and there is free wi-fi. the half a billion dollar project took 13 months to build and once you get inside nice, cold air conditioning. the front of the bus is reserved

for women. >> the problem is traffic and used to travel in vans especially for the women because normally there are guys and boys really bad but after this it completely changed. >> reporter: the view isn't bad either. in fact, many parents are taking their kids on it just for fun. and peak hour the bus is usually packed with people heading home from work or going into the city for fun and shopping. what is unique about it though is all types of pakistanis are using it from the poor to the very well off. since the metro opened three months ago transport officials estimate the number of cars on the road in islamabad has dropped by about 30%. there are a few small problems. people aren't sure about using the automatic ticket machines so there are long lines for the count counter.

>> translator: the bus service is marvelous. we all love to go on it. the other taxis and vans are expensive and cost $6 and the metro is 20 cents. >> reporter: they already have a metro bus and karachi will be next, it's part of a long-term plan to upgrade pakistan's public transport. >> more than 200,000 that we take buses and after ten years or so we can transform this metro bus to the metro train. >> reporter: the bus means poor people who couldn't afford to travel around the capitol now can as long as they can find a seat. nicole johnston, al jazeera, islamabad. in thailand a multi-faith prayer service held to the shrine that was attacked on monday. ♪ 22 people were killed after a bomb went off at the shrine, a

popular sight at one of the city's busy intersection and more than 100 others injured. sri lanka has been sworn in as prime minister and won 106 seats in monday's election and 7 short of majority but has made a deal with the faction of an opposition group to build a coalition. 700 generic medicines made in india will be ban in the eu on friday. the eu says the clinical trials for the drugs were manipulated. india's pharmaceutical is the world's third largest and $15 billion worth of medicine and $3 million worth of drugs went to europe and india says the ban will cost businesses $1.2 billion and india has responded to the ban by referring talks on a free trade deal with the eu and we have more now from new deli. >> reporter: multi-billion drug

industry has been hit by a ban on 700 generic drugs and eu regulator say the clinical trials were manipulated and ban in all 28 member states until retesting can be done and generic manufacturers here say banning all the drugs based on a technical issue is unfair. >> have already done so much of the work on those molecules, they should be given some chances and should be analyzed in another lab. >> reporter: if and when that happens those in the generic drug industry say the damage to their reputation has already been done. >> we lost the prospective buyers which we could have got as a contract manufacturer. secondly we talk about degradation of companies or the small indian companies like us, we will face a lot of difficulty in the district. >> reporter: the fear is the bad reputation could spread and affect sales in other countries

including the lucrative u.s. market. many of the drugs being banned by the eu are so widely available here and many other countries and local manufacturers are asking the indian government to do what it can to lift the ban and it goes beyond a single industry and already affecting a free trade deal between the european union and india. india has cancelled talks that were set for the end of august in response to the drug ban. further stalling the free trade deal that was supposed to be signed last year. this trade-ex pert and saying it will slow negotiations even more. >> not expect this and an exporter then the point, at some point the indian side will say what is the point of going through the fda anyway. >> reporter: india is signalling it's willing to wait

to make sure the major industries get the best deal and warn the eu's drug ban may end up being a case of bad medicine and focusing trade-in other parts of the world, new deli. speaker of brazil's lower house of congress and the former president have been charged in the country's largest corruption scandal. he is accused of taking a $5 million bribe on contracts linked to state oil company and he is the first sitting politician to be charged in a multi-billion dollar scandal. ♪ on thursday thousands of supporters and opponents of the president marched across the country and approval ratings at an all-time low and unemployment rate is the highest in five years and the economy is sliding into recession. ecuador's government has ban journalists from reporting on a volcano that erupted after 70 years and it's to guaranty

public safety but we report from the capitol and journalists say the ban is one of the many restrictions on press freedom in the country. >> translator: after 31 years in a program he says he now watches every word he says on air afraid his radio station will be fined by the government says his son. >> translator: if the government disagrees with our contents we have to publish exactly as they send it with their vision on the issues and includes saying we are liars. >> reporter: and their station could even lose its operating license given by the government. >> translator: they are shameless, sick clowns, psycho paths and manipulative and dishonest. >> reporter: doesn't trust the private media and constantly latches out against it.

private t.v. station has eliminated investigative reports on corruption to avoid the president's criticism and to prevent punishment. >> translator: censorship applied through the law and not that you violate the law and you are punished, you are punished if you do not violate the law and telling the truth does not exonerate you from penalties. >> reporter: since its creation the law has gone after and fined 143 news organizations, only one of them is public, the rest are private. any information aired or published is subject to scrutiny by a panel named by the government. she directs a government-sponsored radio station and says the private media responds to private interests, the end game now is to make journalism independent, rigorous and responsible. >> translator: there isn't any persecution. obviously the private media

dislikes that type of control over content. the law doesn't prohibit publishing information but if you want to publish you have to do it well. critics say the communications law has not helped improve journalism and instead they say community radios and small newspapers are disappearing or are being used as propaganda tools by the government. the fines imposed on investigative manage magazine and newspapers forced them to close. journalists say the new regulations mean their outlets is be discredited or immediately punished even if they can proof prove they are telling the truth. al jazeera. elections about to be reheld in about 20% of its districts. violence during the first round on august 9th left at least people dead and dozens of polling centers forced to close and will be held in late

october. still ahead on the program the home of one of communisms founding fathers goes on the free market. and in sport find out if one of crickets all-time grates can end his test match career in style. ♪

♪ hello again and it's 75 years since one of communisms most famous revolutionarys were is as nated in -- assassinated and took refuge in countries and made a home in a sprawling

mansion near istanbul and bernard has been to the island he called home. >> surrounded by the mansions of capitalism's millionaires is the crumbling former home of one of communism's great revolutionarys. newly exiled from the soviet union he arrived in 1929 and now his former refuge on an island near istanbul is up for sale for $4.4 million. but in a twist that make an old communist smile whoever buys the prime real estate won't be able to use it for a private home. >> translator: the owners wanted to restore the house as a private residence, four years ago it was designated a public cultural facility and perhaps the ministry could buy it but it's a very difficult restoration whoever takes it on. >> reporter: estimated a restoration would cost $1

million and he chose the place because it gave him a sense of security from the assasins before traveling to europe and on to mexico and it was there he was murdered with an ice pick on stallin's orders and he is a historian and an expert and follower. >> translator: he was not the kind of person to get sad. we however should be upset that the state of this beautiful mansion and he did consider coming back and in a letter to turkish authorities sent when he writes upon my return, i'm sure if he came back and saw it in this state he would be saddened. >> reporter: it has changed little since he was here and cars are banned and elsewhere the world life has moved on and like the philosophy champion his house could soon just disappear.

bernard smith, al jazeera, the island in istanbul. tiger woods looking like the tiger of old and here is andy with the sport. >> tiger showing some signs of life on the golf course and shot his best score in the championship in north carolina and he had a 64 in the opening round that included 7 birdies. now woods has failed to make the cut at the last three majors but the number 286 is a couple shots behind the leaders, his last tour win, that was at the bridge stone invitational back in 2013. >> i felt very good out there and hit a lot of good iron shots and made some putts and could be 2-4 under par and turned into 6 and got something out of my round and something i was telling joie it was nice to get

something out of it today instead of going the other way. one of cricket's all time great had disappointment in the test match and out for 32 in the second test against india, the 37-year-old was aiming at the 38 career centuries and should get a chance to bat one more time and 104-2 to india 393. australia is going strong in the fifth and final test against england and closing on a century and england have already regained and have 3-1 series lead. nadal is happy despite being knocked out at the master, the 14-time major champion beaten by fellow span yard lopez in round three but content with his level of play. >> accept the lose and keep going.

nothing more they can say and nothing more than they can do than keep going and keep believing with the work things are going better. i think having less bad days months ago and it's always an improvement. >> reporter: second seed andy murray moved to quarter finals after saving a match point and murray recovering from 5-2 down in the third set to record a 3-set victory. next up for him is richard. top seed in world one is yanukovich not looking the best at the grand slam of the u.s. open and yanukovich losing his temper here and the second set and didn't lose the match and eventually coming through in three sets and he will face rinker in the last days. >> so this is going to be the first time we met up at the french open final and, well,

both of us are still not playing our best but hopefully we can rise to the occasion to have a good match. in the number one williams made it through the quarters and has a chance to win four grand slams going in the u.s. open and needed an hour to beat her in straight sets in cincinnati and will take a rematch the final. world athletic championships gets underway in beijing on saturday with questions of doping questioning the build up and accusations of widespread doping and in the center is american sprinter with the quickest 100 and 200 meter times this year and served two suspensions for doping. during his career and teammates say he has fair backing. >> he is just doing his job, you know. he is back running and running fast and i'm happy for him. you know, that is a you problem.

y'all just keep bringing it up over and over and focusing on that when there is tons of other great athletes you know that are representing usa. australia named a 31-man squad ahead of rubgy in september in the uk and a match against the united states on september the 5th. 13 world cup have been named and former nick white have been left out and australia in a tough group and includes england and whales. >> that was a hard conversation for me last night and credit to james and the other players with the attitude with the disappointment that i had was brilliant and feeling for me and that is difficult ultimatim and want to go forward. san antonio spurs voted nba

best teammate by the professionals and there he is lebron james was not nominated for the award and lebron is in manila at the moment and trying to be a better on court leader and revealed the key inspiration behind his success. >> it feels great to be able to be someone that people look to to be able to accomplish more and to be able to rise to the occasion and i just come from the upbringing and people that put me in a position, my mom who has so much strength and power to raise me by herself with the nature and all the other we have on the way. >> reporter: plenty more on the website and check it out at al jazeera.com/sport and build up to the world athletic championships in beijing and get underway on saturday, that is it for me for now. >> thanks very much, andy, we are back this a couple of minutes with another full bulletin on al jazeera. don't go away.

>> a fourteen-year-old... murdered. >> whistling at a white woman... in mississippi? >> america tonight opens the case... >> never thought that he would be killed for that. >> that started the push for racial justice. >> that was the first step in the modern civil rights movement. >> could new evidence uncover the truth about that gruesome night? >> i wanted people to hear the true story of till.

♪ south korea warns the north to stop making provocations as kim jong un puts his troops on a war footing. ♪ i'm in doha and also ahead macedonia police fire tear gas to stop thousands of refugees crossing border from greece. the ruling party splinters in greece following the resignation of prime minister alexis tsipras. >> the terror, the confusion, it was something unbearable. >> r