♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour, i'm sammy in doha and taliban fighters raise the flag in the center and the government sent in special forces to retake the city. u.n. condemned air strikes that reportedly killed up to 135 people at a wedding in yemen. typhoon makes landfall in eastern china, causing chaos in taiwan and life on mars could be a real possibility and

scientists reveal flowing water on the red planet. ♪ first to afghanistan where government forces heading toward the northern city of kunduz have turned back after they were ambushed by taliban fighters and kunduz was seized by the taliban on the early morning raid on monday and hundreds freed in a jail break may now join the fight we are told and we will be live in afghanistan but now we report. >> reporter: there are no government troops left here, taliban fighters now in control of large parts of kunduz city and here they are raising their flag in the city square and this battle is not over, the afghan government has a major military operation to recapture kunduz and special forces have been brought in and the u.s. military

talked about the outskirts of the city on monday morning and difficult for reenforcements to reach kunduz because the taliban set up boobie traps along the way and they broke open from the prison releasing hundreds of inmates and most are taliban fighters and have issued a statement telling residents not to worry and to go about their daily lives and it will be difficult for the major military operation underway. it's one of the most significant territorial gains taliban fighters have made since 2001 when their government was deposed by the u.s. led invasion and coincides with ghani as first anniversary of president and the first year that afghan forces are facing the taliban alone after u.s. and nato troops pulled out last year and a counter terrorism operation remains and this is the boldest in a long campaign by the taliban to take control of the country, a strong message to whoever is watching that 14

years after being deposed and battling afghan forces the taliban can still take control of a major city in less than 24 hours, stephanie decker, al jazeera. the afghan president ashraf ghani has talked about the attack on kunduz and said there was no reason to spread terror across afghanistan. >> translator: in first we should take care of the civilian casualties. we have already paid attention and we will continue. the enemy has conceded heavy damages including the air strikes and the operations. i don't want to go into the details of the operations. i would like to assure all my country men and women that condoes is under our control, therefore, there is no need to spread terror among the people and we should never allow anyone

to spread terror among the people. >> and we are on the line from afghanistan just south of the city of kunduz and so are the statements by ashraf ghani restoring confidence that must have been shaken after this attack? >> well, sammy, i am about 45 kilometers south of kunduz city in the province with the afghan security forces, a special force afghan army and afghan police and they are all resting here because they tried this morning to advance to kunduz city but they failed because simply there were too many ambushs on the way and they have lost a soldier and one was injured. we talked with the people, with our reporter in kunduz and there is not much movement of security forces in kunduz and, in fact, we are hearing that taliban are trying to break the front line with afghan security forces

established to defend their base in kunduz city. >> what appears to be the taliban goal here to hold the city or simply to free prisoners and shake confidence and authorities? >> it was very clear for taliban they gained the city and cannot hold it for long but they had the message they delivered and the message is dallas pan -- the message is to break the jail and free all the prisoners from the kunduz jail, about 600, over 600 prisoners were released yesterday. we are talking with eyewitness in kunduz province yesterday and last moment they said the prisoners were in prison cell yesterday, today they are fighting alongside taliban and want to arm them and using them as a soldier so they have

achieved their goal. >> you don't think they are able to hold on to the city very long and how much does the strategic gain give the taliban? >> the men were first of all the jail break was a big achievement for them because they had their soldiers there for many years in prison of kunduz and they are relieved and now showing with their new leader their ability of the new leader that he can get control of the capitol of the province and also he can hold it at least now for more than 24 hours. >> so has the fight to take back kunduz effectively stalled at this point, is that what you're telling us? >> well, yes, everything and without afghan security forces and around me i can see 100 armored vehicles and they are resting here because they tried this morning and there were so

many ambush along the roads to kunduz and ieds and also in kunduz city it seems like the security forces that they reach kunduz by air and they tried to enter kunduz city from the outskirts from the base and they failed because they have a strong resistance of taliban. >> getting updates and thanks for that. the u.n. secretary-general now is condemning air strikes which reportedly killed up to 135 people at a wedding in yemen. it happened in a village near the red sea port on monday, the saudi-led coalition conducting an air campaign in yemen denies any involvement and our correspondent has reported extensively on yemen and is now with me in the studio and first of all do we know the facts yet of exactly what exactly happened at this wedding, who attacked it? >> there has been an attack

targeting a wedding. there were dozens of people who are turning to the wedding, mostly women and children in the village in tell port city and this is an area which is under the control of the houthis. unfortunately to the pull president saleh it has been attacked in the past and intense fighting of those areas and a push by the saudi-led coalition to drive the houthis out from those areas. >> saudi reaction though has been coming in and they are saying they have nothing to do with this. >> exactly, saudis said they have not launched an air strike in the area for the last 48 hours but the official line of saudi arabia said the air strike was basically the following and not targeting civilians and accusing the houthis of soldiers loyal to former president saleh to launch attacks of the rivals and it's a delicate situation and concern for international

aid agencies and human rights activists which has basically taken on the houthis in sanaa is not an easy task and for the time they are relying on air strikes and position for casualties is high on the conflict. >> corpsingzations condemning all sides and ban ki-moon is adding his voice and perhaps all those critical words for all sides of the conflict. >> you have the governing of the u.n. general assembly and a gathering at geneva, human rights commission there, the international community is now trying to push both parties, the excised government and the houthis to go for the political settlement and put an end to the fighting, you have no more than 4,000 people killed since the start of the conflict, half of those people are civilians in the cross fire so it's a very delicate situation and exactly why now you are getting new voices asking for immediate end

to the fighting in yemen. >> all right, thanks so much. now, a car bomb explosion in iraq killed at least two people and the blast was near a busy shopping district in central baghdad and nine people were injured. iran's president is accusing saudi arabia of incompetence in its handling of the hajj stampede disaster and criticizing what is the saudi slow response. various countries struggle to identify the dead and foreign diplomates have been given 1100 photos of the dead for identification and saudi officials say 769 pilgrims died and have not explained the discrepancy in the casualty tolls. >> translator: i'm speaking on behalf of a great nation who is mourning the loss of thousands of muslim pilgrims and hundreds of its own citizens who have come together in the grand and

global spiritual gathering of the hajj but fell competence to the miss management of those in charge. due to their unaccountability even the missing cannot be identified and the expeditious return of the bodies of the deceased to their mourning families has been prevented. still ahead on al jazeera shell pulls out of the arctic and good news for the environment and we will look at what made them quit. plus a sanctuary for creatures from the deep, the southern ocean gets protection and sir blatter is back at his desk at fifa headquarters and that is coming up, with andy. ♪ the leaders of the u.s. and russia have held face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the

u.n. general assembly in new york over how to resolve the conflict in syria. and barack obama and putin can't see eye to eye on the roll of president bashar al-assad and diplomatic reporter james base reports. >> reporter: russia's president normally avoids this normal gathering of leaders at the u.n. and came on a whistle stop trip planning not to spend a night in new york, the center piece of his speech is the idea of a grand coalition. >> translator: we propose discussing whether it's possible to agree on a resolution aimed at coordinating the action of all the forces that confront i.s.i.l. and other terrorist organizations. once again this coordination should be based on the principles of the u.n. charter. >> reporter: that reference to the u.n. charter is important. syria's seat at the u.n. is occupied by an ambassador and it would be a coalition including

the assad government and on its terms. the u.s. would never accept that but it and some of the western allies are moderating their position on assad's future with a compromise of the idea perhaps he could stay on for a bit in a phase transitioned to a new government. >> yes, realism dictates compromise will be required to end the fighting and ultimately stamp out i.s.i.l. but realism also requires a managed transition away from assad and to a new leader. and an inclusive government that recognizes there must be an end to this chaos so the syrian people can begin to rebuild. >> reporter: that idea seemed to be immediately dismissed by france and by the first gulf country to speak here qatar. >> translator: is there tourney with an alternative, is it possible for a tourney for an alternative to grow and develop

under its shadow. >> translator: i can see diplomatic efforts being made to incorporate bashar al-assad in the process but you cannot put together victims and people are killing them and he is part of the problem and cannot be part of the solution. >> reporter: there may be some concern of the speech made by their staunchest ally awanted the talks to be a model for diplomacy on syria and president rouhani said this. >> translator: as we add democracy in iraq and afghanistan we are prepared to help bring about democracy in syria as well as yemen. >> reporter: the real business here takes place away from the speeches and the general assembly ch chamber, this is th lunch and the russian sitting by the u.s. leader. and president obama and putin

had a further meeting to discuss the situation in syria and ukraine, after 4 1/2 years in syria it's hard to be op miss -- optimistic but this is the first in 18 months since the collapse of talks in geneva and everyone knows a fresh effort to end the conflict will face immense hurdles. >> we are joined live with a political analyst from moscow, good to have you with us and after the meeting with putin and barack obama what happened to the idea of common ground being found in perhaps a deal over syria being reached, is all of that over now? >> well, i think that mr. putin when he made that suggestion to create a broad coalition against i.s.i.l. that would include the syrian government i think putin realized that this initiative

will not be accepted by the united states and by the european union but certainly it has to be put forward so that in future it would not be possible for the u.s. to say oh, no one suggested a broad coalition against the terrorists so i think that on the pr side putin certainly won that meeting. >> but if he is putting forward proposals which he think the other side won't accept but that only has to do with the idea of fighting certain groups, i.s.i.l., what about the issue of resolving the conflict and what happens to bashar al-assad? >> well, everyone understands that the immediate goal right now is to defeat the i.s.i.l. all the major players in the region are interested in that including iran and even saudi arabia. so the immediate goal is to defeat the so called islamic

state and afterwards the problem of political transition in syria can be tackled. basically if you remember the former soviet foreign minister sued to say ten years of negotiations is better than one day of war. unfortunately it seems to me the western powers prefer ten years of war to one day of negotiation with mr. assad. >> it's interesting, i'd like to get your perspective, do you think your reading of the kremlin is they really think this conflict is about i.s.i.l., it started, did it not, as a popular rebellion against bashar al-assad and seems to be the cause, why treat the symptom before the cause? >> well, it is quite obvious that from the be -- beginning with the so called demonstrations and if you remember the western media in the beginning with foreign

forces. >> sorry which foreign forces were involved in the demonstrations? >> even the western press, even the western press reported that agents from saudi arabia, from turkey, they were very active in the area from the beginning of the crisis because, you know, saudi arabia and turkey made no secret to topple mr. assad so basically from the very beginning of the civil war there were foreign fighters in syria, you can read about it and a lot of western media and you don't have necessarily direction on that. >> russian perspective there is actually no popular rebellion against bashar al-assad and all the work of foreign agencies, foreign forces? >> well, in the beginning there was a lot of discontent about mr. assad but later on, when the country plunged into the civil war and the foreign fighters started to come now the old

syria, the syria before the popular rebellion looks like a paradise compared to the syria we have today so when mr. obama says there can be and should be no return to status quo well there can be no return to status quo because thousands are killed and relations between communities in syria are spoiled and right now we can only dream of one day achieving the same standard of living in syria the way it was before the popular rebellion. >> the dreams not shared by most syrians themselves and thanks for your analysis there. >> thank you. the u.n. says more than half a million refugees have arrived in the mediterranean this year, eu ministers due to discuss the refugee crisis in just a few hours, and the european commission president and french prime minister will meet in paris, thousands of refugees are being cueing up for the

croatian/serbia border going north to other eu countys and more than 100 buses carrying refugees arrived at the border town and the croatia government says over 70,000 people entered the country in the last few days. >> there is more and more people who are old in this vulnerable groups older than 60 years are coming and so a lot of the pregnant woman who gave birth on the exodus and a lot of small children under five years, mostly they are healthy but they suffer from injuries that were due to this road they took and also big complement for poor hygiene related to diseases. polls are closed and flights cancelled after the typhoon hit the southeast coast of china and

struck yesterday morning with speeds of 119 kilometers per hour. when the typhoon struck china after leaving a trail of damage across taiwan, three people were killed and more than 300 injured, thousands of homes have no electricity and water and emergency crews fear heavy rain will cause landslides and we have more from the capitol taipei. >> reporter: we are in taipei's biggest train station just a day after typhoon struck taiwan, operations here have gone back to normal. although businesses are still closed as well as schools and offices most of the roads have been cleared of debris. more than 7,000 people were evacuated in preparation for the typhoon. the mayor said they are prepared as they can be but it's very difficult to assess the damage of this one. however, if you look at the situation now and how quick the government has responded it

seems to be a test case for how other countries should respond in disasters like this one, more than 300,000 are still without power but most can return to their home, by the end of the day it left taiwan's responsibility and it's just a matter of time before every operation here is back to normal as well. rob is here to fill in some details for us, does it look like this typhoon is now dying down? >> it's no longer a typhoon but more to give to the chinese mainland and, in fact, it was a textbook typhoon and let me show you what i mean and it came in and you saw this yesterday with almost a perfect circle with an eye in the middle and when it went on taiwan the eye disappeared because it did not have feed from the warm water below and the storm and not a typhoon any more is in land in china. this was a monster of a storm

and caught only more than one satellite and the japanese have a high resolution satellite here and this white line here is the edge of the island of taiwan, that is the eye of the storm. look at the monster this is, this is a huge thing and it's slightly bigger than what hit on august the 7th. the strongest gusts from this particularly one was 291 kilometers per hour, one of the southern japanese island and taiwan got hit badly and tie pay missed the really high gusts and 250 kilometers just about but throughout the island there was a huge amount of rain and over 750 millimeters so we don't know how badly the affects have been felt but it has been nasty and the rain is the story here because the storm will no longer be a typhoon the rain through the eastern side of china to shanghai in the next two days and expect more reported, sammy. >> thanks, rob.

and shell abandon the search for oil in the arctic and not able to find enough oil and gas to continue and plans to drill in the arctic for position here and we reports. >> shell get out of the way. >> reporter: it wasn't just environmentalists who were opposed to shell's drilling plans shareholders said the huge cost of drilling made little sense at a time of low oil prices and office of interior said there was 75% chance of a major oil spill if it began in the sea with devastating consequences for wildlife and the echo system and didn't stop the obama administration granting shell a permit to drill even though the company had been forced to abandon drilling operations in 2012 because of a series of accidents and miss management. shell executives are reported to have been take end aback at the level of protests this summer and activists swarmed the

vessels leaving port bound for the arctic drawing international attend shun and environmentalists now declaring a victory. >> it has been built nationally and regionally and to stop this particular project and realize there are other countries that may be interested in other areas other than just specifically the sea which is where shell was so we are really hopeful that this foundation will move forward to make more permanent protections for the arctic. >> reporter: the final cost of shell's failed arctic plans could be around $9 billion but investors concerned about low oil prices and the outcome of forthcoming international talks on climate change it take makes sense to take the loss. >> i don't think you will find viable arctic oil drilling options ever quite frankly. >> reporter: it's estimated that the arctic holds 20% of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources and scientists said

the oil needs to remain untouched if climate change is to be limited. earlier in the year norway postponed its arctic drilling plans and 2012 russia gas pulled out of a project in the arctic barren see and environmentalists hope with the latest failure big oil will finally leave the arctic alone. al jazeera. nepal considering banning climbers and those that are severely disabled and elderly from mt. everest and wanted to make it safer for everyone and rules were necessary and the proposals come five months after an avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake killed 1 people at the everest camp. peace keeping under strain from conflicts worldwide. supporters rally behind one of the largest planning

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and have given assurances the government is under control. the u.n. secretary-general condemning air strikes in southern yemen which reportedly killed up to 135 people at a wedding, the saudi-led coalition bombing for months denies any involvement in the wedding attack. u.s. president barack obama and russian president vladimir putin held their first formal meeting in two years on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly and resolving the conflict was top of agenda. back to the stop story the air part where afghan security forces are stationed and hit by missiles from the taliban and amy is on the line from afghanistan south of the city of kunduz and what can you tell us about this latest escalation? >> reporter: well, police

commander here on the ground and they are basically saying there is a lack of coordination and lack of lead hip -- leadership and where i'm standing is more than that and no one wanted to take the responsibility of who should go first and this lack of leadership of afghan security forces and have now in the sky for them to support but no one wanted to take the responsibility to go first. >> thanks so much for the up da date. executed a man who said he was 15 when he was arrested and he was sentenced in 1996 for murder, a crime he always denied and he wasn't registered at birth but presented school documents at his trial and pakistan law prohibits the

execution of juvenile. intelligence group monitors on line and saying taliban are responsible for deaths and restricting their movement following monday night's murder. 500 inmates escaped from a prison in the central african republic and jail break in the capitol bongi follows three days of fighting and more than 40 people have been killed in retaliatory attacks between christian and muslim fighters and forced to fly home early from the u.n. general assembly in new york. the latest unrest led to protest though calling for redeployment of forces and u.n. backed interim government is yet to rearm the military, army was sidelined after muslim rebels were seized out two years ago. u.s. president barack obama has

chaired a u.n. peace keeping summit for pledges for 40,000 troops and police officers and the u.s. contributes few peace keepers but does pay for a quarter of the u.n.'s budget and that is crucial funding for missions which are needed more than ever and we explain. >> reporter: from south sudan to haiti the strain on peace keeping troops has never been greater and the u.s. says they need much more support and at a special summit on monday president barack obama took the first step. >> the largest contributor to the u.n. peace keeping operations, the united states intends to continue to do its parts and today i'm issuing new presidential guidance, the first in more than 20 years to expand our support for u.n. peace operations. >> reporter: but that is mostly in the form of money and military logistical support and

not troops on the ground and looking to european allies and the rest of the world to boost the peace keepers ranks. at the u.n. china was one of the biggest to answer the call. >> translator: china decided to take the lead for a police squad and build a peace keeping stand by force of 8,000 troops. >> reporter: countries are also giving billions of dollars for new equipment and better training, something urgently needed as peace keeping makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. casting an ugly shadow over the summit a range of sexual abuse allegations involving peace keepers mostly in the central african republic and some involve rape against children and leaders at the summit were clear it has to stop. >> we have to insist on zero tolerance for abuse, zero. >> reporter: the hope is fresh

reforms and funds will usher in a new era in u.n. peace keeping. >> i think the conference sends a signal that it's no longer business as usual in u.n. peace keeping and some countries in africa and asia have got lazy with peace keeping and have to raise their game and improving sexual abuse and corruption. >> reporter: reform and better equipped and funded forces at this summit an acknowledgment it's necessary to meet the demand in a world where people tasked with keeping the peace are needed now more than ever. gabrielle with al jazeera, at the united nations. the mayor of a small brazilian town turned herself in after being on the run for a month, the 25-year-old accused of stealing more than $4 million from public funds and a second mayor in the same state is also being accused omiss appropriating funds set aside for school buses and virginia

lopez reports. >> reporter: in brazil's northeastern state is a sort of quiet, agricultural town of which not much is ever heard, it also has a type of local government which under brazil's federal system can lead to a catastrophic use of resources, a year ago eight students were killed in a car accident on their way back from school, the deaths might have been prevented if they were riding in a school bus for which there were funds available but the bus was never bought and instead they rode home in the back of this pickup truck. the expense of local corruption became painfully evident. >> translator: she was my little girl. i wish i had been there to yank her out of the truck, i want justice but nothing here changes, the mayor should be condemned and bought the school buses. >> reporter: instead of justice the parents received death threats on their phone.

>> they can send all the threats they want, i will not give up. >> reporter: but this is not an isolated case, almost half of the mayors and local authorities in the area have been accused of corruption. >> translator: in communities we have greater needs, the amount of money coming in is higher and often times funds get deviated and our judicial system is plagued with loopholes that even if found guilty authorities can return to power. >> 17 students survived the crash but the memories of that night's event changed them forever. >> translator: my life will never be the same, i always dreamed of being a fire woman and now i'm always sad, always remembering my friends and thinking of how sad their parents are. >> reporter: although school buses were finally purchased other public works like these stopped and while they investigate of allocating funds

and they remember the eight victims who died here and relatives of victims it stands as a similar bull of how the corruption is in the area, al jazeera, brazil. the president of one of america's largest family planning organizations will testify before congress in a few hours. planned parenthood uses more than $500 million in taxpayer funds each year but it could lose funding after a series of under cover videos showed staff discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue and kimberly reports from washington. >> court any. >> reporter: they came to capitol hill with a message of congress don't defund planned parenthood and for many working class americans it's the only access to affordable healthcare and she was this graduate school suffering endomtrriosis and she turned to planned parent hood when she could not afford

medication. >> it was hard to get in and i need a job and not going to be able to study for this one reason and planned parenthood and i was able to get the medication. >> reporter: turned to planned parenthood years ago after finding a lump in her breast. >> it was my first contact with getting a breast cancer screening and it's a procedure that saved my life. >> reporter: not everyone in congress sees planned parenthood as a benevolent organization and have abortions violating the religious beliefs of some and after videos exposed planned parenthood discussing the sale of fetal tissue for profit. >> particular tissues like they want eyes or neural. >> reporter: they threatened to shut down the government if dollars continued to support the

clinic, the head of planned parent hood has been called to testify and pushing to end the organizations federal funding. >> such a lack of the dignity for a human person and if it was a baby whose life was taken through abortion and they were a commodity and harvesting little lungs and hearts and liver for a cost. >> reporter: many in congress say the hearing is nothing more than attack on women's reproductive choices going only since it was legalized in the u.s. since 1973. >> what is really under attack is the right of women to control their own bodies, their own reproduction, their own reproduction and their own reproductive health. >> reporter: she agrees and why she came to tell congress abortions are just a small part of what planned parenthood does and because of her medical condition her chance at motherhood would never have happened without its support.

kimberly with al jazeera, washington. a volcano in southern peru erupted the second time this week. that is a 4,000 meter high ash cloud towering above the volcano and towns and villages surrounding the peak was dormant until it became active just two years ago. scientists at nasa say they found strong evidence of liquid water on mars, discovery raises the possibility that microbes could also be present or in simple language life, john hendron reports. >> reporter: nasa scientists say the red planet is not the desolate, dry place they once thought it was. >> today we are revenue -- revolutionizing the planet and there is more humidity in the

air and the soils are moist and hydrated and full of water. mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought of in the past. today we are going to announce that under certain circumstances liquid water has been found on mars. >> reporter: researchers say a few billion years ago mars was covered with rivers, lakes and possibly an ocean but they believed only a small amount of frozen water remained and now nasa says a camera on the mars orbiter captured streaks of water on the surface of the red planet, a basic building block of life and they say there is a water cycle that changes over the course of the year, much like the water cycle on earth. >> these are dark streaks that form in late spring, grow through the summer and then disappear by fall. >> reporter: that raises the possibility of life, possibly microbe life and makes it easier for explorers to sustain themselves exploring the planet

as nasa hopes to do by 2030 >> today's announcement of a really fascinating result of current water on mars is one of the reasons i feel it's more imperative we send people to mars to explore the question of is there current life on mars. >> reporter: the possibility of life on mars has been envisioned in science fiction but largely dismissed. ♪ it's weird, there is nothing here. it's mars. >> the finding also raises the possibility that despite wildly varying temperatures that range from 56-21 celsius it might be possible to grow food in greenhouses on the surface. nasa managers say the latest discovery leaves many mysteries unresolved and still don't know where the water comes from and what besides salt is in it, john hendron, al jazeera. san francispeaking to my co

says the discovery proves what scientists always suspected. >> it is not so much a discovery, a confirmation of something we suspected already because there is so much evidence actually in all the pictures we got from years ago that there has been liquid water flowing on the surface and erosion by that water of canals and canyons and all this but the significance of this confirmation is that those flows are here to date and thought what was flowing on mars was millions and billions of years ago when the structured were carved but some of the smaller ones apparently there is resent activity of water on the surface of mars which is extremely important which means that there is liquid water on mars under the surface and when mars comes to the summer time in some places the water comes to the surface and makes a little kind

of dark marks and then of course it evaporates because of pressure there and from orbit we have a global of mars and we can show that, we are concentrating in the eric quatorial part of mars which is about here and a lot of these are nearly there and this is where the in ground they are analyzing some of the chemicals associated with water and of course we have the map and resolution the surface of mars and the composition of mars as well so we have evidence of those flows, do you know what, it is strange because there are a lot of craters with peaks in the center and when the crater for example where this is it has a huge mountain in the middle and at the top of the mountain is where you see these things and expect to see the water on

the m into, bottom, not at the top and you see the water just carving dark lines there, it's fascinating. >> reporter: whales, dolphins sharks and all sorts of sea life to be protected off the coast of new zealand and fishing being band as one of the largest sanctuary is created in the south pacific and gerald tan has details. >> reporter: one of the most isolated places on earth, hundreds of marine species live in the pristine waters and many of them unique, some endangered. >> this is the gold standard of marine resources for the world. i don't think there is any marine reserve you will find that is going to be more predictors for impetuity. >> reporter: visit to the u.n. general assembly and will in

have thousands. >> and we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: and gaining immediate attention. >> just over an hour ago with the united nations the prime minister of new zealand john key made an announcement that we can all celebrate. >> reporter: not everybody is celebrating, mining, and fishing are now ban from the area, although some of the industries are upset, the government says the benefits out weigh the cost. >> confident the majority of new zealand has a loss economically but worldwide for the contribution for worldwide protections in the oceans. >> reporter: the area will be policed using satellite data and defense patrols and new laws will come in next year to protect the region for generations to come.

gerald tan, al jazeera. still ahead on al jazeera we will look at why more elderly people are fending for themselves on the streets of the philippine and in sport we will hear from the south korean billionaire who says he is the man to rebuild fifa's reputation. ♪

welcome back, growing concern in the philippines how millions of elderly people being left to fend for themselves and abandon by their own children and

government run centers and their only hope to get them off the streets and from manila we have the story. >> she is 101, for 40 of those years she has worked on this foot path, a widow with no children lola as she is known says she will stay here until the day she dies. >> translator: i don't want to be too much of a bother child. one must do what one can do and if you can't then you must suffer through it, that is how life is child. >> reporter: her situation is rare in the philippines where the elderly are usually cared for by extended family but more people are now fending for themselves, many wander the streets until they are found by social services. this is the largest of only four government run centers for the elderly in the philippines and spread across ten hectors and made to look like a local villages there are clients here at the moment and get their

needs tended to for free around the clock. to be accepted here the elderly must have no where else to go and no family to care for them, the numbers were always small but that is no longer the case. the government estimates that close to 1.5 million elderly people have been left on their own. and social workers are concerned that many have been abandon on purpose. so some institutions like this will take them in at no cost to the family. >> the main reasons they are here is because they were abandon by their own children because of work outside of the home. their children want to earn and that nobody left behind to cater the elderly needs. >> reporter: she has been here since her husband died three years ago, as best she knows her children are working in the u.s. and she lost touch with them years ago. >> translator: even if i'm not

family i'm grateful to god i was brought here. i am lucky. i don't go hungry. we have medicine and someone to care for us, we have everything here. >> reporter: more families are asking the center to take in their relatives, some are even willing to pay. it's a development social workers say is reflective of a change in philippine society but on a sidewalk in the heart of manilla's town she prepares to sleep for the night and she won't be moved she says no matter how much the world changes around her, al jazeera, manilla. all right, and andy is here and time to catch up on all the sport. >> thank you so much, one of the men hoping to be the next fifa president says there needs to be emergency meeting of the futbol world and he believes an interim task force should takeover from blatter and the subject of a criminal investigation and blatter was back at zurich

headquarters before dawn on tuesday and lawyers released the statement saying he had done nothing illegal or improper and will stay in his job until a successor is elected next february and accused of making a disloyal payment to the head of european and platini denies wrongdoing and announced intention to stand in next year's election and the billionaire businessman played a key role in bringing it to the cup in 2002 and says he now can bring meaningful change to fifa. >> the most important task at hand is to root out corruption from fifa. investigations into illegal activities of the past should be left to the proper legal authorities. justice must be served. associating fifa should be left to those who love futbol. >> reporter: chelsea manager

has told his players that no one has a future guaranteed at the club and they did win the first group game against tel aviv and chelsea played later on this tuesday. >> to be a winner you must have a strong mentality every game and they are players that i like very, very much but only consistency can give you that status. >> barcelona without mesi on saturday and could be out for up to eight weeks and see him missing five le-league games. >> translator: a player like mesi is irreplaceable but we have to keep going forward, it's

a very tough challenge for us and the team to stay competitive without our best player and it's motivation and a very attractive challenge but to replace a player like mesi is impossible. >> here are the games coming up, later on this tuesday, eight in total and also coming up, munich and currently 45 game unbeaten run and taking on the cost and lost in the opening game and manager admits they have much to prove in this competition. >> in the last two years barcelona won the champion league and before that it was madrid who won the championship so you have to say they were the better teams but so far i don't think so but we have to show that with our regard. australia, cricket bangladesh is looking increasingly unlikely to go ahead, the head of security is returning from daka to brief the

team after assessing the situation there, australians have already delayed departure after the country raised the security threat level for bangladesh and britain and united states following followed after shooting of an italian in the area and due to begin on saturday with a warm up game and then two test matches to come as well and australia futbol with bangladesh in november also looks to be in doubt and we have more from dacco. >> while bangladesh initially assumed the tour would go ahead once assurances of safety were made that may no longer be the case and could be a big blow nor the bangladesh team and tigers were on an unprecedented success this year with wins against heavy weights india, pakistan and south africa but people are now raising the example of the pakistan team which has been in decline partly due to years of teams refusing to tour there

because of security concerns. libya aiming to secure their first ever points at the rugby and the african side lost 58-14 against new zealand in opener, if they win this is the first world cup victory in 17 attempts and tonga going to this after a defeat to georgia who are five places below them in the world rankings. and whales team in a deep freeze to recover from their stunning win over england with just four days between games the players have been using ice chambers to get their aching ready for figi and the game coming up, on thursday. >> refreshed, ready to go, in the last in 2011, four and five days turn out i think you read yesterday that our boys come back in the chamber at 3:00 in the morning, that is the

attitude our players have got. in tennis maria injuries continued forcing her out of the open in china. a 28-year-old has made every tournament back in wimbledon because of a leg injury in july and then a problem with her arm and forced her out of this match with barbara in the third and final set. first round for venus williams and beating her 6-1, 7-6 in straight sets. plenty more of course on our website, the latest there on the crisis engolfing fifa and check it out al jazeera.com/sport and plenty more sport for me later on but that is it for me now. thanks andy and stay with us here on al jazeera, we have another full bulletin of news that is coming up, in just a couple of minutes and of course there is always al jazeera.com and see you in a bit.

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