>> hello from doha. this is the news hour on al jazeera. tear gas and barbed wire, scenes in hungary at a reception center for refugees. >> african leaders gather as hopes rise for a peace deal in south sudan two end civil war. >> making concrete beautiful and spreading a message of hope. >> with the sport, the reputation of kenyan athletics is once again called into question with two runners failing drug tests at the world

championships. >> hungary is the latest european country to see scenes of desperation and chaos at its borders. overstretched police fired tear gas in an effort to restore order at a refugee processing center. so far, hungary's response to the crisis has involved barbed wire, mounted police and docks. it is now sending 2,000 extra officers to help control the situation and is considering using the army. hungarian police say every day, more than 2,000 refugees arrive in the country and so far this we're, hungary has registered 100,000 refugees top compare that to the whole of 2014, it was 23,000. the country is building a raise

door wire fence at the border with syria. we have a report on the desperate journey of thousands of refugees as they head north. >> by the day, the numbers are hard tore digest. here in what's called the one stop center, an entrance to serbia from macedonia, more than 10,000 people have passed through in less than five days. further up the line at serbia's border with hungary, an e.u. member state, more than 2,000 a day are arriving. the number registered this year has passed 100,000, compared with 43,000 last year. the numbers are staggering. so, too, is the inability of the european union to come up with a coherent strategy in sharing responsibility of helping refugees. >> it's chaotic registration centers such as this one that are really worrying european

leaders. very little in the way of security checks, only 72 hour visas being issued and well, look at the numbers. they are extraordinary. >> it gets more complicated. germany predicts it will deal with 800,000 asylum applications this year. it wants a fairer system of coast at as for member states to take in refugees. >> what's more, the e.u. wants a tougher policy to turn back people who are categorized as economic migrants. in northern serbia, on the trail to try to cross into hungary, most of these people are refugees from syria. they are frightened about what's had. >> we need to go to hungaria and work. he should work. we don't know what happen in hungary. maybe they tame him to jail.

>> we are very worried, because we heard a lot of news that say officers in hungary are hitting people. >> hungary is going to become an even bigger pressure point in this crise. its government is already criticizing the e.u. for not giving enough money to cope with a record number of people intending to cross its border with as her herb i can't. al jazeera, in serbia. >> a little earlier, we spoke to a representative of the united nations agency in do the pest. he was asked if the use of armed forces would actually be effective to deal with this refugee crisis. >> there were reports, different reports from few days. what we have seen from last days that the numbers keep coming in. these are clearly refugees and the visible change in trend is women and children and families. yesterday, when i was talking to my colleagues monitoring the situation on the border with

serbia, they were saying over 1500 have come in. there were some desperate people who came across and begged, but others cannot continue the journey because they are tired and exhausted. we are looking for new approach from the government in the e.u. >> you talk about those enormous numbers and from the u.n. h.c.r., melissa fleming has been quoted it's vital that the human rights and dignity be respected. surely for a country to do that, they need resources, need some sort of e.u. policy to protect them. i mean how is it fair on these poor countries to do that? >> indeed. i think in the history books, probably europe's treatment of this proportion of refugees crossing and opening up the doors while there is a record number of displacement around the world will be remembered and

it's claim of human rights will be judged because of response. no country can deal with this issue collectively. this is a population on the move. people that i have met on the border, hungary and serbia are coming from syria. it's iraq and afghanistan. how you want to treat these people, it's not a single country's issue and they shouldn't be left dealing with it on their own. >> it doesn't seem the war in syria are going to stop soon. this call for a coordinated e.u. policy, what does it look like? when is it going to happen? >> it should happen soon. these people, you talk to them at the border, a minute's wait from us are too much. they are just desperate, tired and exhausted. they cannot continue.

the question they ask is where is the humanity in europe? we keep searching for that and it has to come sooner than later, because these are desperate people, refugees on the run trying to save their lives. >> we'll return to that story later in the newscast. south sudan's president is expected to sign a peace deal with rebels to end two years of civil war. leaders gathered to witness this ceremony. it's expected to take place at some point today. we have this report. >> when the fighting started in december, 2013, people fled to the safety of u.n. bases in several towns. now 20 months later, more than 200,000 people are still living under the protection of the u.n. what began as a tight between soldiers killed and injured thousands of people, but the violence didn't stop in the capitol. it spread from town to town,

destroying neighborhoods and leaving tens of thousands of dead in its wake. the conflict soon took an ethnic dimension when the tribes clashed. when fighting came to her village, she was forced to run. >> sometimes my heart tells me he's alive, but sometimes i get depressed and think negative thoughts, but a lot of people told me other people have faced a worse fate than you, so i stop thinking about it and left it up to god. >> when the conflict began, the army split into two factions with the former vice president announcing he was in command of the rebels, so the last 20 months war has dragged on in south sudan with towns changing hands between rebel and government forces. even those who didn't support either side found themselves attacked in the street.

>> they cut me with a machete. i fell down. i didn't even know that was happening. after two or three hours, i found myself in hospital. >> the united nations has demanded both sides reach a peaceful resolution and the pressure has been on the president to sign the peace deal. some of the top rebel commanders have made it very clear that this peace deal means nothing. unfortunately for the people of south sudan, that could mean that this war isn't over. al jazeera, juba, south sudan. >> two workers from the humanitarian group doctors without borders have been killed in separate attacks on villages in south sudan. they were killed last week in remote areas in the unity state. officials from the group say they have just learned of the

violence. exact circumstances are still being investigated. >> saudi arabian troops crossed into yemen. the saudi army attacked houthi positions in the southern province. you have covered yemen a lot. i saw you talking about airstrikes and unrest near the border yesterday. i thought well, saudi arabia is not going to sit on their hands on this one, are they? >> they had to react to that. basically what we've seen is the houthis intensifying their attacks. this is serious for the saudi government, they are intensifying the attacks. they have taken control of areas inside yemen particular on the border area that sounds the city.

>> has anything changed in yemen? we just report back and forth things like you've described, taking territory, losing territory, retaking territory. is anything moving in a remotely positive direction? >> in search of a sense of clarity how things are moving forward, it's very difficult to tell because of the complex political landscape in yemen. we've seen that houthis have lost significant areas in the south. they no longer are in control of aden, now under the control of pro-government forces backed by saudi arabia and united arab emirates. taiz is on the highway the that leads to sanna. >> how would you describe the fighting where the houthis aren't in control? >> basically, the saudi-led coalition is now providing the

government forces with significant weaponry and hardware to maintain those areas, but the houthis control huge areas where the fighting is probable going to take place in the coming weeks. >> plenty more ahead for you in this news hour. actually, we'll bring you something -- got a bit of a mix up. here we go, sport, smile. making history in the champions league, smiling at the camera. we'll tell you about that in the sport a little later on. >> russian president vladimir putin has been showing off his

countries army. russia and iran are expected to sign a $1 billion deal for missiles we have this report from rory challands. >> as russian jets shredded the sky above him, vladimir putin looked satisfied with what he was watching. a display of military and technical strength being observed by potential customers from the middle east. salt beside him were the king of jordan and abu dhabi's crown prince. he opened with a patter of a hopeful salesman. >> r.b.i. is open for fruitful business cooperation in the aero space industry. we aim to promote russian passenger and transport planes who are actively on the internal and external markets. we will extend the unique space potential to strengthen the leading positions in production of military and aviation equipment. >> much has changed since this buy enyell event was last held

in 2013. western sanctions and the fall of the ruble have had a crippling effect on shush's civil aviation sector. defense exports are now one of the few areas of russian city where there's growth. >> deputy prime minister tasked with showing the iranians around, it is no secret that the russians are anxious to send exports to them again after the lifting of sanctions. >> we are building relationships, working on technology transfers and other issues. one of the areas where lots of investment will be made after sanctions are lifted is aviation production. >> defense sails are driven by russia said own massive military modernization program. though there are signs at least in aviation that this is slowing down. >> when it comes to domestic

procurement, russia is having to clip its wings because of the worsening economic situation. the developments of to new long-range bomber has been postponed. orders for its new generation war plane have been scaled back. instead, the military is opting for cheaper options, like updating and modifying trusty older work horses. at any shopkeeper knows, a good flow of customers is essential. the latest to arrive in moscow is the egyptian president al sisi, expected to visit max, too. >> lets talk about this meeting, what are they expected to talk about? does syria go up oxygen da? >> i'm sure it will, yes. we're expecting a press conference in the next few minutes or so, but going into the meeting, they were trading

what they were going to talk about and general security in the middle east was one of the you hot poetics there. both have slightly different agendas, both russia and egypt have slightly different things they are trying to push. what russia is looking for is some way of bolstering president assad, its long time ally in the middle east by trying to get involved in the international coalition against isil. that's something that egypt is not really going to support too strongly, because it's very economically dependent on that saudi arabia and saudi arabia does not want anything that will prolong president assad's spell in charge of require i can't. now egypt would like some help in its battles against isil and other armed groups on its

periphery, namely in libya and the sinai peninsula. we'll have to see whether there's common ground, whether these two countries and these two leaders can find ground on ways to help each other. >> thank you. rory challands live in moscow for us there. >> israel immigration officers arrested refugees in tel-aviv after released from detention, accused of violating the terms of their release. >> the 20 asylum seekers were arrested in tel-aviv after freed from the detention camp deep in the desert. 1200 people have been released in the last two days, bussed to various parts of israel. under their release terms, former inmates are banned from living and working in two israel cities, including tel-aviv. those arrested insist they were passing through the city to other towns.

the resort city is also off limits. the mayor of the town of arrat has promised to stop refugees from entering. this man escaped fighting in darfur. despite living in arrat for seven years, he is banned from returning. >> i'm not allowed to go to work where i live. if i am caught, i will be returned here immediately. i don't know where to go. the minute you leave here, that's it. >> 1700 people have been detained here under squeal's so-called antiinfiltration law. some people for as long as 20 months. now the supreme court has ordered the release of anyone held for more than a year, but only under strict terms that limit their options. 1200 inmates have been freed this week, but under strict terms that limit their options. this is where many refugees want to go. israel's business hub, tel-aviv. the city has large existing african communities and growing

levels of anger at the treatment of refugees. many arrived here after escaping war and economic hardship in sudan and eritrea. large numbers live here in limbo without access to social services or health care. they can't be legally deported. they are not allowed to work and few are being granted asylum. israel automatically grants citizenship to jews but wants to restrict the number of africans entering the country. a fence was erected in 2012. financial incentives are offered for those agree to go leave. the alternative is a life in detention or tough existence in israel's towns and cities. al jazeera. >> rob's here to talk weather with us. you were talking about floods in australia in the last hour. more floods elsewhere in the world. >> in the foothills of the himalaya, anything in the

foothills. if you look at the satellite picture in the last 24 hours, it's been happening for weeks on end now, the monsoon season in nepal. although it's not been heavy recently, 36 millimeters in kathmandu, when you do that daily, rivers swell. the river which comes out of nepal then flows that and bursts its banks. more people affected by yet more flooding in this part of the world. now the rain isn't necessarily stopping immediately. there is evidence a bit further south where 90 millimeters have been recorded in the last more than a day. that general picture is going to be the reflected forecast. more is likely to happen. the same hat attitude is just a bit further east wards in china.

it's not surprising to get flooding in china, but this is fairly sensitive once more. i can't say that's the end of it and obviously the ground is still fairly unstable. >> thank you for that. developing story out of the united states, two television journalists have been shot and killed during a live outside broadcast in virginia. tom ackermann is in washington, d.c. to talk us through this. i've seen this footage, it's quite harrowing. perhaps you can talk us through what happened. >> we are getting fragmentary reports about the authorities' search for the gunmen, but according to the television station and as you can see from the live broadcast, 24-year-old reporter allison parker and 27-year-old photographer adam ward were interviewing a personality a shopping mall near the city of roanoke when a shot

range out, rather shots rang out and both were killed at the scene. it is not clear what the motive might have been. the interview was not of a political nature. it was about tourism, so it is not clear what exactly the reasoning, if any, the gunman might have had in the course of this, but as we said, authorities are now searching for the gunman. >> a seemingly random shooting of two american journalists in suburb i can't, this will get people talking and focus the conversation on guns in the united states again. >> actually, this is in a rather rural area of virginia, not in suburbia. just yesterday on tuesday, an 8-year-old child was grazed by a

bullet fired by a fellow elementary school student, who brought the gun to school. even in west virginia, 29 students were held hostage by a 14-year-old who brought a gun to school and held the students in his class at gunpoint for several hours until the authorities talked him down and everybody was safe. there were no injuries there. as you can see, the prevalence of guns in america is by gun safety advocates rewarded as the principle cause of this kind of violence, simply the availability of guns. it might be noted, of course, that while most of the large cities have recorded a drop in fatalities and in homicides over the last several years, there has been an upswing in the district of colombia, washington, d.c. as well as new york. people are worrying whether that

lull or respite to the united states enjoyed in large cities might be coming to an end. >> if you get anything more, do come back to us. two television journalists killed on air in the united states. >> the names are familiar across the united states, freddie gray, michael brown, young black men killed by white police officers. now, though, some communities are trying to reduce racial tensions by retaining officers on the use of force. this report is from john henry. >> it's not a silver bullet, but some police believe this might be key to easing racial intentionallies. across the u.s. and canada, police are testing the latest in non-lethal blunt impact projectile, causing excruciating pain, but stopping short of killing. it's the latest in moves by

north american police departments to respond to a wave of protests following a series of deaths of unarmed black men at the happened of police. in ferguson, missouri, a new judge is dismissing all arrest warrants more than five years old and allowing defendants to set new dates for warrants issued before that. >> this is an opportunity for them to make a fresh start. they won't have a warrant, the cases will still be on the books and they will still be given a notice to come to court, but they don't have to do it under fear of arrest. >> in maryland, wherey i don't get followed the april death of freddie gray in police custody, the attorney general on tuesday handed down new guidelines that forbid police from pro failing suspects based on race, or gender identity. >> we can set standards so that law enforcement and broader

community view people at individuals, accord them respect. >> community activists say those are improvements but don't go to the root of the problem. a racial divide with mostly white police force on one side and young black men on the other. >> it's helpful. there's a rich history of distrust with the police and the african-american community that dates all the way back to the jim crow era and the civil rights movement. you have to change the training then. once you change the training, you have to hire people that really understand the african-american community that can really work, you know, work to build that bridge within the african-american community. >> activists in black neighborhoods say until the police in their neighborhoods look more like them, that racial divide is likely to remain. al jazeera, chicago. >> plenty more news ahead. we'll report from sri lanka where journalists are wary of promises of a free press. >> i'm reporting about the

refugee crisis. >> those stories and headlines coming up. coming up.

♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage, all of taylor swift's music videos, interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. >> trying to tied the flow of

refugees, considering using the army. >> the president of south sudan is expected to sign a peace deal with rebels. >> two television journalists have been shot and killed in virginia in the united states while conducting an on-air interview. it all happened live on television. we have edited this picture down so you don't actually see the moment of impact, but quite harrowing pictures coming from a live t.v. report. that's the news anchor in the studio there. >> we're going to go back to our top story, the situation in hungary, the police using tear gas and razor wire to stop

refugees from crossing the hungary border. they are using a fence that they haveual the border with syria. it sounds cold warresque. is the fence the problem or the policies the problem leading to all of this? >> clearly hungary is facing a difficult challenge here. i think that it's the policy that is the bigger problem. the fence in itself doesn't change the situation much. hungary is receiving as many asylum seekers as before or even more. asylum seekers cut through the fence. the fence is just a symbol of the government's political response, which is characterized by anti immigrant sentiment and the utilization --

>> it's almost a p.r. campaign against immigrants, if you come to hungary, don't take hungarian jobs. how does that affect the hungarian people. >> the campaign was far from being supported by the population. you have many examples where civilian activists tore down billboards or wrote on it, drew on it, so you have a lot of people who reject this populist tone. on the other hand, i wouldn't underestimate the effect of the campaign, which is really a p.r. campaign. it did have an effect of turning up antiimmigrant sentiments. >> what should the government be doing? it's taking a hard line approach, talking about fences, but in fairness, they've got up to 100,000 applications for asylum this year. it's a small country on the front line. no country of that size could

absorb those numbers. it has to do something. i'm not saying force is necessarily the right idea, but what should they do? >> it's true, but the refugees who come to hungary and it needs to be a point of entry, those people immediately leave for western european you canaries, or the overall majority of them, so amongary is not a destination. also, it puts a great burden on the reception infrastructure of hungary, but other countries who face similar pressures chose to pursue more moderate policies. i think the common e.u. response is the only way to go. >> very interesting talk to you, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> the german cans lower has been jeered by a group of protestors on a visit to a shelter for asylum seekers.

angela merkel was visiting a town where violent protests over refugees erupted in the weekend. the center currently houses 600 people. the chancellor said there is no tolerance in germany for zenophobia. >> we must put our efforts into making clear there is no tolerance for people hoop question the dignity of others. there is no tolerance for people willing to help where legal and human help is required. >> eight south african police officers convicted of murder will be sentenced late last month. the men were found guilty of handcuffing a taxi driver and dragging him behind their van. tanya page has more from the court in pretoria. >> the judge called these former police officers liars and murderers. he said they killed the man for blocking a road with his taxi. this mobile phone footage helped convict them. the judge said they acted with

common purpose in handcuffing him to their van and dragging him 200 meters. these images went environmental when they emerged and proved damning. >> convicted of murder. >> what happened once the footage ends is almost worse. the pathologies said he was beaten and that caused his death. >> african police are often accused of usings excessive force. many people say they simply don't trust them, although that's unlikely to change with this verdict. one family says it now that verdict. >> justice isn't enough for his family. >> we need compensation, because he left behind four children and an elderly father, who all need to be supported. >> there is a sense of relief over the guilty verdict. the public's been let down

before at efforts to hold police to account. six months before he was killed, police shot dead 34 striking miners. no one has ever been charged. a month after he died, seven police officers caught on camera shooting a protestor in the chest with rubber bullets were acquitted of his murder. the national prosecuting authority had this message. >> brutality within the police force will never be tolerated. police are expected to protect the community, prevent crime. they are expected to investigate crime within the framework of human rights. >> by the end of the verdict, the defendants had their heads bowed low. they are now in custody. the people who are supposed to protect are now convict killers. tanya page, al jazeera, pretoria. >> still in africa, zimbabwe's president spoke for less than half an hour, setting up plans

to revive the economy. the u.n. said 1.5 million of the population need food ate this year. >> sri lanka has been described as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, the new president has promised to change this and offer greater transparency in reporting. >> she is all too familiar with what happens when a journalist speaks out of turn. she said in 2010, her husband, a writer and cartoonist was abducted by people loyal to the then-president. >> for the last five years, i've been fighting for justice for my husband against the sri lankan law. i've struggled with protests here and internationally. >> this journalist is the editor

of a newspaper known for publishes stories the government would prefer left untold. he's been intimidated, received death threats and been forced to write anonymously. >> to give out the right information to the public, it's important to eliminate the fear factor planted in journalists in the past. >> during the presidential election in january, a large number of journalists supported another candidate, believing in his vision of politics and the role of institutions like the press after coming to power, he relaxed many restrictive media regulations, including opening the northern region to journalists. city center allowed access to web sides banned by his predecessor and created a less restrictive environment for the

media. >> there are questions about how far he is willing to go when it comes to freedom of the press. >> unlike other monitoring bodies around the world, the press council has legal powers and can send print journalists to jail for up to two years. city center appointed new council members in june. one of them told al jazeera the agency is necessary, because sri lanka's media industry is in its infancy. >> just because the press council has the powers in district court doesn't mean it can just grab a journalist and put them in jail pop so far, no one has been put in prison. it's a blatant lie being spread. >> analysts say city centers decision to reoh point the press

council goes against what he stands for. >> they should not have done that, because they claim as a people's government, so something that this would have thought twice before they appoint. >> journalists say they will continue to try and speak the truth as theyified for those who dare to do the same in more restrict i have times. >> to afghanistan, where the capital maybe short of many things, but what it does have plenty of is concrete blast walls. they're the perfect blank canvas. we report on how they are being transformed, hoping one day, coulkabul could be the world's graffiti capitol. >> an effort to create stability, this anti corruption message warns that the people and god are was watching. across the street, they are painting hearts as a symbol of healing the nation.

it's all the work of this artist and a group of volunteers. with a few hundred dollars of their own money for paint and supplies, they are working to change the kilometers of blast walls that make him feel under siege in his own city. >> when you put a picture on a wall, the wall disappears and you are in a new state. >> he wants that new space to be about a new afghanistan that he and his fellow painters can help create. >> it's time for afghanistan top create things other than weapon and war. it's really time to give an artist and art a chance. >> he wants everyone to participate. when a policeman takes an approximately, he offers him a brush. he does the same for an old man just passing by. >> even people with no education

can understand when they see a message like this. >> that's the idea. he wants to introduce artistic literacy. this is the first of a new series, called heroes of my city, celebrating its people. these are street sweepers. other murals will be of school children and an old man on a bicycle, a hero for not add to go pollution and traffic. >> it has always been heroes, heroes with guns or swords. so we want to celebrate the people that we see every day who are working on the streets. >> while they may have started with an anti corruption painting, they hope their work will be uplifting and help bring afghans together. >> because of the security situation, the city is in fear, so we are trying to do something which grabs the attention of our people in a good way. >> those who take part say it's therapeutic, a way to contribute and share with fellow afghans.

>> he hopes this project gets bigger. he plans to invite international graffiti artists to paint here or share designs for the afghan to say point. his agreement is to make this city the graffiti capital of the world. al jazeera, kabul. >> sports news on the way. we'll learn why this keeper could cost the team a semifinal place. details coming up in a moment.

>> the middle east is facing a water crise. the n.g.o. said by 2040, the region will experience eight of the 10 worst droughts in the world. saudi arabia, qatar and israel will be among the worst affected. many countries will have to stop growing their own food and lack of water will make conflicts worse in syria, iraq, palestinian and elsewhere in the region. in jordan, the situation is already critical. >> a resident of the northern city little he used to take his steady supply of water for granted up until three years ago. many refugees from neighboring syria settled inside hometown and now everyone has to share what little water resource they have. the authorities imposed a

pumping schedule. his area gets water for a few hours once or twice a week. his rooftop tanks are almost empty. >> we are living in a constant state of anxiety and insomnia. we now have to worry about whether water will come our our taps. >> people purchase water from tanker trucks. the population jumped from 60,000 to 180,000. 85% of refugees in jordan live in towns and cities as opposed to camps. the refugee crise put pressure on facilities that provide water built decades ago to serve fewer people. officials say jordan has to receive aid promised by the international community for hosting the refugees. >> jordan water resources are enough for 4 million people. the size of the population has reached 1000:00:00 p.m. this is how acute other water shortage

crisis is, our water level basin has dropped and we've been forced to big into our wells and drain them. >> some water facilities have been jump graded to improve supplies, but there's still a huge need. >> jordan is not able to provide enough water to its citizens, let alone hundreds of thousands of refugees. although this station increased the amount of water pumping by 50%, more jordanians are facing severe water shortages than they did before the refugees arrived, causing frustration and at times resentment, too. >> with water shortages reaching emergency levels here, there are fears tensions could rise. >> we demand the transfer of syrians living here. they should return to camps. we never complained about water or piled up rubbish before. >> many people say it's only a matter of time before the main

sources of water run out. this is why they say long term investments are needed to preserve the health and security of one of the most stable countries in the region. al jazeera. >> live to stockholm. the director of the water program at world water resources institute, thank you for your time. i've heard that the next big conflict in the world will be over water. what i get from your report is that it's acute. it could be happening a lot sooner than we think. >> yes, i think that's true. a lot of the areas in the world in the middle east are arid and challenged by limited water supplies to meet the needs of their economy and people. what we look at in this report is how that might change by 2030. we've looked at both potential increases in demand, if we project out current use of water, and also how climate

change may impact supply. we looked at the relationship between demand and supply. 43 of the most water stressed country in the world under business as usual are in the middle east. >> what can countries in the middle east do, without putting too fine a point on it, it is so hot here, it doesn't rain much, all the water has to be desalinated, bringing its own problems, as well. what can be done? >> it's a good question. i mean, the middle east has been dealing with this situation for millennia, really. it's the natural climate of the area, but what needs to be done is water resource that is exist, both the scant resources need to be used sustainably and managed very sustainably. those resources need to be supplemented by as you pointed out, desal mated water and water

reuse for even potable water uses. that is happening in singapore and places in the world that are water stressed. it's not a new situation in the middle east. >> sorry to interrupt, just conscious of the time. do you think the governments are thinking about it in terms of conflict? yes, growing your own food and water supply will be one thing, but as you pointed out, this can fuel conflict. that's a whole other thing to worry about. >> it certainly can. what we think we see already is that it can add at a multiplier or an accelerator of conflict. i don't know that it's fair to say that water itself, even in an area like the middle east is the source of conflict or the only cause for conflict, but it can certainly be an additional factor. we saw that in syria after serious droughts over the course of a decade pushed poor farmers into cities where they had jobs and that added to the strain on

the conflict. >> from the world resources institute, great talking to you, thank you. >> australia rivals the middle east for hot, dry weather, but right now, heavy rain forced people from their homes in coastal areas south of sydney. some streets are knee deep in water. not a problem here, making light work of the flooding. a dam could spill over, flooding areas downstream. >> a whale swimming to freedom in new zealand, thought to be the same while swimming in an inlet tuesday. after stranded, it refloated with the high tide, a little nudging from a local wildlife group. they can weigh 11 tons and rarely are spotted in and you can land said waters. >> i spotted one when i was in auckland recently, just bi-the

way. >> very good. >> kenya is investigating after two athletes failed drug tests at the world athletics championships in beijing. 400-meter runners tested positive for a banned substance in precompetition testing at their team hotel. according to the iaff, running a record in the heat but didn't start in semis. >> they are the latest kenyan athletes to fail a test. it doesn't bode well for a country atop the medal table with four goals. in february, another was banned for two years and stripped of her boston and chicago marathon victories.

>> olympic chan hurdle eerie veiled he'll undergo a kidney transplant. he spent six months in hospital at the accepted of 2013. he won his 110-meter hurdles heat earlier. >> after bas boston's failed bio host the 2024 failure to win the bid to host the olympics, another city has stepped in. l.a. will use previously built venues. >> spain has become the first country to have five teams in the champions league group stage in the same season after two time runners up valencia scraped

through a tie with monaco, despite a defeat tuesday. they went through 4-3 on aggregate. >> there was the spontaneous celebration with a collective self area, so we were together, beyond and happy. now there is a new project and we go one step forward toward this project. this togetherness makes us competitive. the players are all in this together, dedicated and devoted. >> barcelona, real madrid, athletico madrid join. spanish teams have won four of the last seven champions league titles with barca the current champions. england has had just one winner, chelsea, in the same period. that's despite the fact that english premier leagues t.v. revenue is $197 million more

than the entire income of spanish clubs. >> earlier i spoke with andrew warsaw, the chief correspondent for inside world football. eggs that european club's success helped translate into victories for the spanish national team and the english football could take a leaf out of their rivals books. >> the premier league statistically has roughly 30% of its players eligible to play for england. the rest are either fallen stars or plus a he healthy dose of some might say fallen mercenaries and of course an inability to develop future stars at grassroots and academy level, which they've been managing to do in spain very successfully, and in england, we're playing catch up, so that's another huge reason. >> celtics went out, that tie ending 4-3.

tel-aviv are through to the group stages for the first time in 11 years as they knocked out basil on goals. this moment, waiting to long to clear the ball, it rebounded off the striker. the loss was 4-1. >> fears over bad weather could put competitors in danger. the annual event was one of the biggest on the motor sport calendar, racing off road. a prolonged weather system, el niño is expected to be particularly strong this year

and could cause floods and landslides. the race will have to be rerouted through the remaining hosts, bolivia and argentina. >> the north could be in a very critical time with loss of infrastructure and human life. taking that into account, it would be very important for the defense minute city and interior might be industry to participate. security resources should be aimed toward the north and not you the south for this sporting event. >> nadal is optimistic of his chance at u.s. open despite struggles throughout the season. he took time out from practice to attend a promotional match in new york. he pulled out because of a wrist injury and appendix surgery last year. he insists there is still plenty of tennis in him.

>> after not having a great season, i say i am looking at every day and working hard every day. i know i am playing better and i'm feeling better mentally than a few months ago. then may the results, when the results arrive, i feel closer to the season being what i want the season to be. >> for more, those two kenyan these who failed dope tests, head to our website, we've got moor news from correspondents around the world. >> we're back in a couple of minutes. another bulletin with the latest world headlines and that developing story out of the united states, a reporter and cameraman shot dead on live television. we're back in a moment.

tear gas and barbed wire, chaotic scenes in hungary, as unrest flairs at a reception center for refugees. hello once again from doha, this is the world news from al jazeera. south sudan's president says he will sign a peace deal to end nearly two years of civil war, but he still has reservations about it. saudi troops cross into yemen to attack houthi positions. we want the people that come here to say