♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to a news hour from al jazeera from the headquarters in doha and i'm adrian and coming up, in the next 60 minutes russia will continue to send weapons to the syrian army as a way to help the fight against i.s.i.l. fear on hungary's border as fleeing syrian refugees plea for help. a call for peaceful protests in venezuela after opposition leader lopez is jailed for inciting deadly rallies.

>> there are no homeless, there are no poor people. everyone is equal. >> reporter: with love of one of the south pacific last traditional tribes is in the spotlight at the venice film festival. ♪ russia says it will continue to provide weapons and said to area syria to help fight islamic levante and confirm moscow was providing support for the assad regime and international community voiced concern about russia's possible military build up and we have more on the story and peter sharp is live from moscow and what did mr. sergei fedorov say, peter? >> he said they will continue to supply arms to damascus and made

that pretty clear and what he is saying is these arms are to be used to maintain damascus' ability to combat i.s.i.l. in the region. they are not being sent there to be used in syria's civil war. he also said that the russian foreign minister says that military will conduct exercises in the area. he has always said that and these will be cleared by local areas. and he said he is ready to reopen discussions with the u.s. military to avoid what he called unintended consequences over syria so those talk also be upcoming. one of the unintended consequences of this has been the neighbors, russia neighbors closing their air space to flights to syria, bulgaria

closed their air space and the same occurred yesterday with the ukraine. now the obvious way for russia to supply weapons to syria would be to fly over turkey and it's reluctant to do that, one of its planes was grounded in 2012 and its cargo of radar of instruments was taken off and reluctant to use that root so iran has really come to their help here and said it will allow russian aircraft to use its air space which will give it a direct link into syria. >> peter for the moment many thanks and peter sharp there live in moscow. millions more refugees could head to europe if the syrian war is not stopped according to children's agency unicef and says 8 million people are internally displaced in syria and many could try to escape the fighting fleeing west and panic on a rail way station on the border of austria and they have been crushed against barriers as

they plead with police for help. the wife has chaos at a nearby border camp as police threw food to refugees and macedonia's foreign minister says the country may follow hungary's example and build a border fence to stop people traveling through the balkins and let's go live now to the border between greece and macedonia and al jazeera mohamed is with us and there are a lot of people behind you there, what is going on? no, obviously something has gone wrong with our link on the border, what we will do is listen to her report and we will try to get back to her live in just a couple of moments. here it is. >> reporter: from the island to the ferry to the mainland travel through the night and reach the border in the morning. it is pouring with rain. many are not prepared for this weather. children are soaked to the bone,

yet the refugees are still determined to continue their journey but it is one full of obstacles. macedonia border police had blocked their path and frustrations grew once more. the rain continued to pour. impatient the refugees pressed forward, the police pushed back until it became too much to cope with. this is not the first time for the macedonia border guards to use force. others could just not wait anymore and yet agarisk their ls and some were running out of money, others out of time. the macedonia police eventually let everybody in and by the rush by fear that the border will close once again they left their personal belongings like scars and napkins for babies, sleeping mats, shoes for children and even their tents that they will probably need because they still

have four countries to go through. for a while the border state is here and aid workers and volunteers however were getting ready for another human wave and most refugees stuck on the greek islands have been evacuated and about 20,000 people are expected to stream through here in the coming hours and days. some people living in the area have also come to help. sophia says the plight of these men, women and children hits close to home. >> translator: why are we doing this? because our ancestors are refugees, i'm seeing now what my grandfather and mother experienced. >> reporter: after weeks of traveling, clean clothes are more than welcome for little ali and his parents left syria 25 days ago. they entered greece through the island of roads. she feared her baby would not make the crossing, the sea was hard. >> translator: we are not extremists and know it's going

to be difficult here, some people don't want us but it is still better than syria. >> reporter: it's that belief and hope that gives them the strength to continue a voyage full of uncertainties. >> and we are live from that border between greece and macedonia and what is happening there now? >> well, now the refugees are sort of the system is a bit changed and now they are in groups of 50 and they are 100 meters away from border crossing and as each group of 50 gets through then another group advances and if i look in this direction we keep on watching for more groups arriving. i was talking earlier to a person from unhcr here and he expected that throughout the day this flow will continue there and their estimate is about 6,000 people will cross here. now, it is very common and very organized even though it's a bit hot for the children and a bit

difficult but you know the refugees here keep on listening to the news, there is also rumors going around and they are very worried about what will happen once they cross macedonia and serbia and hit hungary and a lot of them are extremely anxious that the borders might close and all these fences might be built and they will get stranded or they will get separated from their families, some of them told me members of the families have gone already ahead because in the message continuous movement they lose each other sometimes and keep on connecting on chat rooms or with mobile phones so there is a lot of anxiety and they are here and have four countries to go through until they reach germany if that is their final destination and some of them want to go even further north. >> thanks indeed on the border between greece and macedonia. u.s. president barack obama says the united states will take in at least 10,000 syrian refugees next year and the number is a

significant increase from the 1500 refugees it let insofar but total number of refugees that the u.s. takes in won't rise. the syrians will makeup a larger proportion of the yearly intake which will remain at 70,000, it will be a slow process as each person has to be vetted before they are granted asylum, 300 more syrians are expected to be cleared by october. white house correspondent calhane talked about a white house news conference. >> the state department said the goal for next fiscal year is 5,000-8,000 refugees and it's just an increase of 2000 and what does this mean for those leaving iraq and afghanistan? >> um, i don't think i quite get the math on the 5, 8 and 10. >> the goal is for next fiscal year is total of 5-8,000 refugees from syria so is this just 2000 more? >> my understanding is i guess i

cannot account for what they previously said what they are hoping to do for next year. what we had identified is an opportunity for us to scape scale up our response and talk about how the united states could accept more syrian refugees in country next year and that was a directive from the president of the united states and what they are working on so that is what the department will do. >> what about how the hungarian government is treating the refugees? >> i'm not going to stand in judgment of individual countries at this point as they deal with it and what we can all acknowledge is a terribly difficult challenge and we are hopeful that other countries will do what the united states and germany have done. >> security forces in turkey have blocked a delegation of politicians marching towards a kurdish city, the southeastern city is under a military-imposed

curfew, at least 30 people have been killed there since military operation began last week and we have stephanie decker in istanbul. >> reporter: a different humanitarian situation and we are told there is no electricity, no water, lack of food and medical supplies and people cannot leave their homes and cannot go out on the streets and cannot transport those injured or dead to hospitals because of reports of snipers. however, i have to say very difficult to confirm these reports because it's impossible to get in. it has been under military siege now for about a week. the turkish government says it's rooting out what it calls pkk terrorists and they say they killed at least 32 militants including one civilian however when you speak to the other side the pro-kurdish party hdp will tell you 21 civilians have been killed, these are pictures coming out on social media and accuse sniper fire of this with

fighting going on in that city but a very difficult humanitarian situation, that is clear, the numbers very difficult to confirm. the government says it will continue this operation until it clears the area out of pkk militants and comes at a time in the last week this turkey, the most violent it has been in the last couple of years, a concern of course to the people here, everyone a little worried but many people will also tell you this perhaps could be solved politically, nap elections being held only the first of november and we will have to see what happens but incredibly sensitive times here at the moment. nine iraqi soldiers have been killed and 12 more injured in a suicide car bombing on the outskirts on the syria of ramadi and expected to be result of i.s.i.l. fighters northeast of the city and fighters also shelled the area and four are iraqi army vehicles were destroyed. saudi-led military forces have carried out air strikes on headquarters of a yemeni t.v.

channel in the capitol sanaa and the building was reportedly used as a weapons store by houthi rebels and saleh and peace talks will go ahead next week between all sides in the conflict and saudi-led alliance have been bombing houthi rebels since march and negotiations between them and the houthis broke down in june. and let's speak to the editor in chief of the yemen post, he joins us live from sanaa, what chance of these political talks then, these peace talks next week making any headway? >> they are the only option with the yemen crisis by war and that has improved over the last six months where no side has been affected by this and the only side that has lost over the last six months have been the people, the 25 million people who are now suffering and ongoing and

very fierce with the war and why both sides are finally understanding that but after thousands of lives have been lost and we do see that these talks say there is no other option and saudi arabia for sure does not want to enter the season next week with war in yemen ongoing. so these talks do have a bright future. the u.n. right now is giving more attention. the houthis are also the demands are less and they are also giving in to the u.n. demand and that is what was needed months ago before this war and crisis and this wouldn't happen in the first place. >> it has taken six months and nothing much has changed apart from the humanitarian situation which has become worse and worse, why now and why has it taken so long, what has changed on the ground? >> the houthis felt that they would get international support

or international recognition in yemen if they control the department. that has not happened. they were not able to get allies and international allies or local allies and then as they realize that they have no other option but to give in to the international demands unless other factions are involved in this. this was not the case six months ago when they felt they were in charge and were this control and all sides must agree to their conditions whether they like it or not and in six months this is what changed and houthis are taking back reality and instance on all sides being involved in the government rather than controlling yemen alone. >> very many thanks to yemen post live from sanaa. here with the news hour from al jazeera still to come on the program, flood water recedes with damage and devastation to people's homes and livelihoods. uk debates whether terminally

ill people have a right to put an end to their suffering. ahead of the u.s. open semi final look at the long and sometimes strained relationship between federer. ♪ supporters of a prominent venezuela leader calling for peaceful protests against his jailing and lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison after being found guilty of inciting rallies and say it's a miscarriage of justice and caroline reports. >> reporter: disbelief of a leader and lopez because convicted of a closed trial that ended suddenly even though many defense witnesses had not made it to the stand and he has been

given the maximum sentence for inciting vie violence of last year. >> and it can put lopez out the street by the sovereign decision of the venezuela people. >> reporter: prosecution said lopez encouraged violence when his people rallied against the president nicholas maduro, 40 people were killed. there are groups of people who agree with that view. government supporters gathered before the verdict calling for the court to find him guilty and to keep him in jail. he has been held at a military prison since his arrest in february last year. >> translator: lopez does not represent anything to us. what we simply want is that he remain a prisoner and pays for his mistakes, there were many deaths because of him. >> reporter: lopez is a harvard

educated politician. he was a popular mayor in the district of caracus on one of the strongest opposition candidates. the united states government and united nations and international human rights groups have all called for his release. [chanting] carolyn malone, al jazeera. a court in india has found 12 men guilty over the 2006 mumbai train bombings and convicted of murder and conspiracy, one of 13 men accused has been acquitted and 189 people were killed when bombs ripped through first class carriages nine years ago and sentences will be handed down on monday and face the death penalty or life in prison. japan's prime minister has held an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss severe flooding in the country's east. at least three people were killed, more than 100,000 had to

leave their homes. one of the worst effected places is an area north of tokyo as rachel reports. >> reporter: it was a long night for hundreds of people after water tore through their city. rescuers worked in darkness but couldn't reach all those who needed help. at daybreak their self-defense force as well as police and firefighters stepped up their response and with the rescues came more detail about what happened. >> translator: it was so quick. the water busted down our door and flooded everything. >> reporter: we were at a shopping center so we had everything we needed. record-breaking rain across the region caused the rir to break its banks and the mayor says 6 1/2 thousand homes have been flooded or destroyed. the japanese government says

it's doing all it can. >> translator: the government is trying hard to rescue those who are waiting for help as soon as possible. >> reporter: the local governments of the affected areas have set up temporary accommodations for those forced from their homes. while the flood waters eased during friday much of the area is still under water. it's not clear when people will be able to return to their homes. the weather bureau says 400 millimeters of rain fell in two days, it is warning of mudslides and further flooding and i'm rachel in tokyo. live to one of the worst affected area north of tokyo and wayne hey is there and you spent the day in the area, what have you seen? >> well, it was a day really when the weather cleared which

was the first piece of good news and noticed the water receded quite quickly, still a lot of water laying rounds the city but it has fallen quite quickly and enabled people who had spent the night in evacuation centers and perhaps in friend's and families home further afield to come back to check on their homes and check on their positions and things like that but still a lot of work to be done here. the city is largely in darkness and certainly this area where the river burst its banks and took everything with it so a lot of work to be done but an i said the water receding quickly and will enable a cleanup effort to get underway in the days ahead. >> have people experienced anything like this before? you said the river burst its banks and heard from people earlier that said it just happened so quickly. >> it did. there were several days of heavy rain so there was a little bit of warning but the fact that the river burst its banks, those

banks are some four meters high and there was reportedly some construction work that was planned very soon actually to fortify those banks in the event of such a disaster, too late to prevent this one. it did burst its banks some 70 odd years ago so it has seen this sort of disaster before but this level of rainfall, the officials are saying was certainly something that they had not seen before in such a short space of time. still some concern too further north adrian where rain fell throughout friday unlike here in the city where the weather cleared, still raining in that part of the country. it was forecast to clear early this evening but there is still a severe weather warning in place for that area, two rivers there have burst their banks sending water through many areas including the suburbs of the city of sindi. >> wayne hey live in the first affected area in japan, let's get an update on the weather

situation in the region, metrologist richard is with us, the rain is gone, wayne was saying but all of that water that fell has to go somewhere. >> it is from metrologist problem and we actually look at the situation and not looking too bad at the moment and cloud we need to pay attention to and cloud to the north associated with a tropical storm kilo. this weather front is expected to cross in the day or so and heavy rain in parts of honcho but nothing like we had, 269 millimeters and more than a month in 24 hours and 668 millimeters since sunday and of that about 450 millimeters fell during thursday and into friday. so it really is unprecedented, one or two hours 750 millimeters

of rain but play it through and there is the rain and could be some flooding there, there is still a little bit of rain across the far north of honcho as wayne was saying in his report but really that is on its way out. then you start to see this area of cloud and rain developing across south korea and pushing in towards honcho but we have a respite and sunday the far north here see some rain again but to be honest as far as what is falling from the sky considering the worst of it is very much over adrian. >> thanks indeed and something to warm your heart a film was shot here and given audiences at the venice film festival a rare insight into one of the traditional tribes and it's a love story set in a remote village. some of the cast left their island home for the first time to travel to film's premier and they were met in venice. >> reporter: until two years

ago the people had never seen a film. now they are the stars of one. in a production they helped cowrite a story of love and tragedy based on their experience which echoes the tale of romeo and juliet. last month they had no passports, no birth certificates but made it to venice to see themselves on the big screen. >> this is such a multi cultural environment we have never seen. tall buildings and cars everywhere and crowds of people. it's very, very strange. everything looks so strange compared to our culture where we live with nature. ♪ the scenery is seductive and lust and stunning, no special effects needed and thought tourists may flood in but they said they want the world to understand their culture. here at one of the most

expensive hotels in venice surrounded by rich europeans sipping cocktails they tell us their community in the south pacific is the happiest on earth. >> in our culture there are no homeless. there are no poor people. everyone is equal. money is very rare. we have overcome traps of money. we have overcome the lows of government because we want to maintain the reputation of the happiness. >> reporter: the directors and their children lived with the tribe for seven months, learning about their way of life. >> they don't live with full culture because they have to, because they are too remote and they don't know about anything else. it's a choice and live an hour's drive from the town where there are shops and people live on money and all the rest of it. they choose not to have anything to do with that.

♪ proud to show off their customs on the red carpet and on screen, tanner is proof no matter how foreign stories of love and loss are universal, charlie with al jazeera t venice. the movie was shot on tanner one of the island's hardest hit by a cyclone that struck in march this year and al jazeera andrew thomas is there. >> reporter: the film tanner was shot here in the village on the island of tanner south here, this space was used as one of the main back drops for the filming. the shooting actually finished in 2014 and the directors were back in australia editing when in march of this year a huge category five cyclone struck and tanner particularly hard. devastating just about everything in its path, flattening the houses of the participants and actors in the film and directors in australia had no way of knowing what

happened to the cast and crew, it was a week before they found out that everybody had survived. and this village has been rebuilding, most homes are backup. later this week i'll be reporting from here more widely on how this country is getting back on its feet six months after that huge storm. >> approaching the midway point on this news hour and still to come on the news hour, dozens and out-of-pocket and in zimbabwe they find their land was too good to be true. indian students show off their invention which is indebted to be sure that sign language isn't lost in translation and after an off season tom grady -- brady goes back doing what he does best, next in sports.

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hello again and adrian in doha and the news hour and top stories and they will continue to send weapons and aid to syria to help it fight the islamic state of iraq and levante and sergei fedorov's comments come a day after moscow confirmed it was providing support for the assad regime. panic at an austria rail way station as people are crushed against barriers and pleading for police for helped and happened in the border town and the u.n. children agency says millions more people could head to europe if the syrian war is not stopped. air strikes by the saudi-led

military alliance destroyed a t.v. station in the capitol sanaa and the building was reportedly used by houthi rebels in yemen as a weapon's store. people in singapore are voting right now in the most competitive general election in decades. just over an hour and a half of polling to go the ruling people's action party has been in power in singapore for the past 50 years but widening wealth gap and demand for change has led to opposition gains in resent years, for the first time opposition parties have candidates in all regions. they are expected to win some seats. al jazeera's rob mcbride is there. >> people were already lining up when the polling stations opened. voting here is compulsory but the wider choice of candids for a general election that is usually predictabled added a new dimension and casting his vote

of the founding father. >> and we have impact and like people to listen and absorb more always but i think we got our messages across. >> reporter: he presented his people's action party as the obvious choice to manage the economy and provide strong leadership. subtle references were made to the political instability taking place in neighboring malaysia and while the haze that has hung over singapore for much of the election period has been a reminder of the forest burning going unchecked in nearby indonesia. the ruling pap party has played on the need for unity at a time of regional uncertainty often for praying this republican as the tiny red dot at the heart of southeast asia and combine it with the worsening economic environment it makes a strong argument for staying with what you know. >> whether the government is doing their job. >> are people generally happy or no?

>> well, i am so i'm hoping they are. >> there is a lot of talk in terms of people wanting to have a choice but when things are really good i don't know that the choice is actually required sometimes. >> reporter: but this campaign has seen a maturing of singapore's opposition parties in a tightly-controlled city state not used to decenting voices. spurred on by a largely younger generation wanting more choice opposition rallies have been well attended. >> in the past this pervasive the term is used culture of fear has really kept people from going even to listen to what the opposition has to say so i think that is the key difference that in some ways really over shadows the actual results themselves. >> whether they make the gains they have been hoping for this election represents a work in progress for those with opposing views, rob mcbride, al jazeera,

singapore. >> one of the candidates in guatemala's presidential election says last sunday's poll was rigged and is battling to reach the runoff vote which will be held in october and neck in neck for second place with former first lady and the millionaire business man says the votes have been counted more than once and they dismissed the allegations as baseless. brazil's president held an emergency cabinet meeting after the country's sovereign debt rating was cut to junk status by one of the major credit agencies and standard and pores say scandals with the president joe and a stagnant economy prompted the move and as lopez reports he may now have to go back on some of her election promises. >> reporter: he and his wife said they could barely get by on $50 a month he made as a street vendor. their life however took a turn

for the better after he was given this house as well as a $50 stipend, a cash handout program designed to help those living in poverty. >> translator: i used to live on the edge of the river. actually almost in the river. it was risky and hard going. and with a new house i have a dignity i never enjoyed. >> reporter: this is part of the housing program that gave millions of brazilian people a chance of owning a home however as brazil's economy takes a turn for the worst millions more are not as lucky and bonds on wednesday went to junk status level led to on going uncertainty and cuts to social programs that were once at the heart of the government. >> translator: the new changes must be adjusted to fit our income, social programs related to education, health and housing are all programs that cannot be implemented without considering a reduced budget. >> reporter: with a record low

popularity of just over 7% the president could see her traditional support base among the country's poorest shrink further and experts believe the kits are the best long-term remedy. >> good pressure to implement the cuts which are very unpopular, many of them, the government needs a political context to favor it and i think this pressure will favor the government in political terms to go ahead with the cuts. >> reporter: reducing social inequality of promoting growth struck a positive cord with brazilians and realization of dreams may only be temporary. >> translator: i worry a lot, and the news don't paint a pretty picture and i'm often left sleepless at night. >> reporter: brazil on the way

to being a global economic player a couple years ago with and now it looks like that is a dream to be put on hold with prospect of years of painful prosperity measures, brazil. democrats in the u.s. senate prevented a republican move to block the iranian nuclear deal and tried to pass a resolution against it to lead to a vote to stop president obama from lifting sanctions on iran as kimberly reports. >> reporter: the latest deal to reject the deal with iran needed 60 votes from the u.s. senate to advance the debate to a final boat. >> yeah, 58, nay, 42. >> reporter: opponents came up short because a group of mostly democratic using legislative procedure not only blocked the agreement and served notice that any further attempts would be unsuccessful. >> congress of the united states will allow this historic agreement to go forward. averaged by op point opponents

are rejected. >> reporter: to limit sanctions on iran and president obama says is the best hope for limiting the country's nuclear activities. >> our bill will solve a massive security program and prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons without resort to war is a historic achievement and has to be pursued. >> reporter: republicans in the house of representatives remain defiant against the president and pursuing a potential legal challenge of the agreement. >> this debate is far from over and frankly it's just beginning, this is a bad deal with decades long consequences for the security of the american people and our allies. and we will use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow and delay this agreement from being fully implemented. >> reporter: they claim the white house has not disclosed to congress side deals between iran

and the international atomic agency but there is little time left for legal challenges. the deadline from congress to weigh in on the agreement with iran is september 17th and kimberly, al jazeera, capitol hill. u.s. spy chief says cyber threats to the united states are increasing and so shaktar far no agreement only how to prevent them, from washington jordan reports. >> reporter: a lot of money to be made to protect u.s. government and computers from cyber attacks and one estimate says the cost to the u.s. economy is at least $1 # 0 billion a year. >> everyday we gather 500,000 new examples of malware so the cascade of challenges that are being thrown at the defense is absolutely mind boggling. >> reporter: leaders of the u.s. community told congress on thursday the problem is not going away. >> cyber threats to u.s.

national and economic security are increasing in frequency, scale and sophistication and severity of impact. >> reporter: attacks on u.s. government computers are constant, earlier this year the office of personnel management computers were breached, putting at risk the personal information of 4 million current and former federal workers, according to usa today the energy department's computer systems were breached more than 150 times between 2010-2014. those systems hold information about the u.s.'s nuclear weapons arsenal and the power grid. and just this week the pentagon said cash registers at its food cards said anyone who bought a meal or a snack with a credit or debit card and private businesses know they are under attack as well. home depot and sony and jp morgan chase have had attacks with compromise of personal

information of employees and customers alike. >> reporter: the u.s. spent too much time trying to repair the damage and needs to go on the offense. >> a purely reactive defensive strategy is not ultimately i think going to change the dynamic where we are now and the dynamic we find ourselves in now is not acceptable to anyone. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they might target chinese hackers for recent cyber breaches but it's not an easy call and trying to protect the country and economy in ways that do not require guns or bombs or jeopardize since sensitive diplomatic relations. >> reporter: head of burundi forces survived assassination attempts and seven others were killed in the attack in the capitol, four body guards and a police officer are among the dead. thousands of people in zimbabwe appear to have fallen victim to

bogus land barrens and forced many from their homes as we report from there. >> reporter: these families thought buying land in zimbabwe at below the market price was a sure thing but the home they bought the atlanta on was sold by swindlers, individuals who never owned the land the first place and the rightful owner and council officials want them to pack up and leave, continue fused and angry many people say they have no where to go. >> where they are coming from, that is my worry because how can we let some of his brothers and sisters do this. >> reporter: some who refuse to leave had their homes demolished by city council. a bulldozer destroyed the house in minutes, that was the living room and two bedrooms, over here was a bathroom and a toilet, thousands of dollars gone, the hard work of an entire family now in ruins. it's estimated thousands of poor

people across the country have been scammed. government officials said the business of stolen land is big business. >> the police are in the process of arresting those people or basically turn themselves into landowners and fleesed the unsuspecting resident of thousands of dollars and encouraged them to build on land that is reserved for schools and so forth. >> reporter: but it's no consolation for those who lost all their money. >> very painful and wonder how they will survive the basic needs for every one. >> some families don't get evicted and told to pay the market value of the land and some say they cannot afford it. >> translator: they want $50 a square meter so if you have 200 square meters that is 50 x 200, where do we get that money? >> life here is difficult especially for the poor.

companies are shutting down because economy is struggling. workers are being laid off. prices of basic commodities keep going up. for most people owning their own home means a little bit of security in these tough economic times and some families don't even have that. harry with al jazeera. still to come here on the news hour we have all the sport and as floyd mayweather sees a build up to his final fight dominated by doping claims, we will tell you more. ♪

hello, two engineering graduates in india invented a voice for speech and hearing impaired people and interprets sign language and translates it into words and we met the inventors. >> the aim of the project was just to graduate and they wanted to create a prototype to eventually allow everyone to understand sign language. they explain the glove is equipped with sensors with movement and an accelerator does the hand motion and are transmitted to the control section which vehic vocalizes t and this is an export and looking at the viability of the invention and says there is a lot of scope. >> i have not seen such a device with the application and if time

allows and if they are properly guided and mentored they can make it as a product and cost effectively available to the general public who are disabled. >> reporter: the prototype can currently recognize only eight phrases. the creators of the gesture vocalizer can be developed to read all sign language but many are questioning how much more useful this can be for communication than texting or writing. to find out we take the device to a school for the speech and hearing impaired. can you ask him what he thought of the device when he used it? >> he says that it would be a good thing to have although there are only a few phrases right now and if there were more it would be like speaking like everyone else and more would be able to understand him. >> reporter: more research is being done to bridge the gap for people with hearing and speech impaired and similar ideas are

being developed but there is nothing effective or affordable on the market yet. the invendors of the gesture vo drshgs alizer knew they were going in new territory at the project but surprised by what they received. >> people want to come forward and after this project and mainly companies. >> reporter: if developed to its full potential many experts say it won't just be a breakthrough in technology but also one for society. al jazeera. a debate is taking place in the uk's parliament about whether to give terminally ill people in england and whales the right to entheir lives and demonstrators are for and against it gathered outside parliament and under the proposal people with less than six months to live could be

prescribed a lethal dose of drugs which only the patient themselves can add minl -- administer and we are joined live from london and why are you opposed to this bill? well, we believe the current law which makes all assisted suicides illegal is clear and right. it's not broken. and it doesn't need fixing. on the one hand the penalties that it holds in reserve act as a very powerful deterrant for those who may have something to gain from another person's death and the evidence it's working is the very low number of cases we see being brought forward to the police. on the other hand the current law gives discretion to both prosecutors and judges to exercise compassion, to temper

justice can murder si and to apply that dealing with cases and very few end up being prosecuted or sentenced and we think it strikes exactly the right balance. >> hang on a second who are you or the law indeed to say whether an individual has the right to decide whether it is time for them to end their life, someone who is in a great deal of pain and is suffering? >> suicide is not illegal in britain. the debate here is about whether we should change the law to allow people to have assistance with suicide. in other words, to give doctors the right and power to prescribe lethal medication to patients, that is what the debate is all about. this is the 11th time that british parliament have looked at this issue in the last 12

years and on every previous occasion they are blocked and are blocked for reasons of public safe. in a democratic society we all accept that there are limits to human freedom and the judgment of parliament has been up until now and hope again today that any change in the law to allow assisted suicide for any circumscribed group will end up inevitably putting pressure on vulnerable people especially those who are sick, elderly, depressed or disabled pressure to end their lives out of fear for being a burden financial or emotional upon others and in the u.s. state of washington where they enacted a law like this 6 out of 10 people using it do it partly because they fear being a burden and i think that would be a very dangerous change. >> that is the united states and we say this law will only allow people to be prescribed these drugs if they are already terminally ill and their doctor

thinks they have less than six months to live. and i wonder if you ever had to watch a loved one or someone close to you in terminal agonizing decline? >> well, i am a doctor. i have looked after many, many dying patients. i know that the overwhelming majority of them, those even who express a desire to die, once you treat them properly and address their symptoms, those symptoms evaporate. and i'm also a person. i've seen my father die from a rapidly progressive dementia and my grandfather died of cancer where the pain was challenging to control and i'm coming at this as a doctor and as a person with personal experience and my view is that the current law is clear and right and that we shouldn't be changing it and that is also the view of every

medical group in britain, the british medical association and raw colleges and association for palliative medicine and also the view of every disability rights group in britain. they are terrified to death about this law because they know there are many people who make judgments about the worth of their lives and they are afraid of the pressure that would come particularly at a time when finances are tight to end their lives. >> good to talk to you, many thanks indeed and peter is live in london. time for sport. >> thank you, adrian and serena williams will take to the court for if the final of the u.s. open and closer to the calendar the grand slam and both women semi finals postponed from thursday to friday after heavy rain at flushing meadows and will play second seed followed by williams clash. this is the only tennis seed on flushing meadows and before the rain the world number three andy

reaching the second grand slam final and 8 seed johnson in three sets. after the women's semi finals we have to two protennel men final and yanukovych and roger federer in a u.s. open promotional event will continue to the bid to win a first grand slam and the 34-year-old second seed is yet to drop a set in the tournament and facing him is wawrinka is seated five and the french open champion and federal has a lead in rivalry but he won the french open this year, wawrinka and this goes back a long way and the pair are friends but when wawrinka has won titles and it is tested and played doubles and found success early and winning

gold for the beijing olympics in 2008 when federer from theyed in the world of tennis when he won his last grand slam at swimming wimbledon and lost once but in january 2014 wawrinka won the first grand slam and friendship became more of a rivalry and then to a head in london last november where his wife shouted at wawrinka where he went on to win and the last meeting was where wawrinka knocked out his friend on his way to winning the french open. floyd mayweather is denying he violated doping regulations the night before his fight with paqu ia and he received an intervenous injection and that is not permitted under world

antidoping agency rules and the build up for the latest fight on saturday in las vegas and a fight mayweather said could be his last and the 38-year-old said he has done nothing wrong and confirmed by the u.s. antidong agency i did not commit any violations of the nevada or use of drug testing guidelines and proud to be a clean athlete and i will continue to champion the cause. in the nfl superbowl champions the patriots had a successful start to title defense and beat the pittsburgh steelers in the opener and quarterback brady had four touchdown in 28-21 win and brady had a four-game ban recently for deflating footballs that was overturned last week. >> i was excited, our whole team was excited and haven't had one of these games in a long time and it's always fun being out there and getting the opportunity to go out and play

and took advantage of it, it was a good win and our guys played hard and obviously a lot of things we can do better and we will get back to work and we have ten days before we go to buffalo and that is a tough place to play so we have a lot of studying ahead and hopefully get a little rest this weekend and get back to work. >> the battle for the title between rosi and lorenzo when the grand prix gets underway on sunday and the yamaha who won in the last circuit had carts with a more friendly affair and looking to deny rosi victory on the home track and rosi leading standings by 12 points. tough sport cars and that is friendly. >> thanks very much indeed. that is it for the news hour, thanks for being with us and stay with us on al jazeera and we will be back for another full bulletin of news in just a few

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