this is al jazeera. hello. i'm lauren taylor. this is the news hour live from london. coming up. the army loses ground to the taliban in kunduz where a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. syria's president deploring russia's air strikes in the country saying it's vital for middle east stability. deaths along the french rivera. two months worth of rain falls

in two hours. the remedy that is becoming much harder to pick in south africa. i have all the sport. liverpool is searching for a new manager at this hour. also the latest from the rugby world cup where argentina is supported by the most famous footballer takes a significant step towards the quarterfinals. we begin with a battle for kunduz, the northern afghan se falling back into the taliban's control. government forced backed by u.s. war planes have fought against the taliban there on monday. paul has the report. >> reporter: police on the northern city of kunduz have distributing bread and rice to residents. many have lived without food, water or electricity for days. >> translator: planes bomb us from above. we are shelled from the ground. we don't know what to do.

>> reporter: afghan soldiers and the taliban rb fighting for control of the se for more than a week. afghan troops drive past bodies left on the ground as they patrol the city with damaged and boarded-up storefronts dotting their way. the capture of kunduz by the taliban was its biggest success since the armed group was removed from power in 2001. those who were able to escape are concerned about neighbors and relatives left behind. >> translator: there's no doctor, no medicine, and no treatment in kunduz. people are getting killed in the city, but there's nobody to help and take away their dead bodies. >> reporter: the hospital operated by the aid organization doctors without borders was hit by an apparent u.s. air strike on saturday. >> we still have no explanation why this attack happened. a very precise attack on our hospital. it was very well-known and marked, and it's without any

taliban signs or presence in that hospital. >> reporter: doctors without borders has denied an afghan interior statement that taliban fighters fired from inside the hospital. several of the aid agency's staff and patients were killed. some of the patients are said to have burned to death in their beds and many more were injured. the pentagon has opened an investigation. the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says, an air strike on a hospital may amount to a war crime. the hospital had at least 2 hundred patients, doctors without borders has now pulled out of kunduz and the patients taken to the main hospital, which has run out of medical supplies. it's one doctor and three nurses are trying to help 500 patients. the government has promised to send them a team of doctors and supplies from kabul. >> al jazeera is in kunduz province and sent this update.

>> reporter: we just got confirmation again from afghan security sources and afghan residents of kunduz that they're telling us that the area that afghan government cleared this morning, most of kunduz city, is back in taliban's hands. now the residents are telling us still heavy fighting is going on. we keep receiving phone calls from the residents they're stuck in their homes. they're telling us there's no water, no food, no electricity. life is miserable, and they cannot survive for long like this. they are telling us that they're also tired of -- they're also complaining about use of artillery from both sides and heavy bombardment. they tell us there are dead bodies and injured people that are sfuk in their homes, and they cannot even move them to the hospital because they believe any movement in town could be a target from one side.

now, we have a bit of good news from the hospital of kunduz city just in the last hour. we got confirmation from aid of the health department of kunduz province that a group of seven doctors with medicine arrived in kunduz city from kabul. that's good news for the people of kunduz. syrian activists have shown russian air strikes hitting positions in the west aleppo countryside. they claim cluster bombs were used in the strikes. no reports of casualties so far. in idlib province to the south, it shows jets carrying out three strikes. they hit a command post and ammunitions depot in the city. idlib is under the control of syrian rebels with hardly any

presence from isil. syria's embattled president appeared on iranian tv. he said his country is in a coalition with russia and iraq and together they will defeat isil. >> translator: it must be a success. otherwise the entire region will be ruined. we're certain it will be a success. the coalition countries have come together in terms of intelligence, security and military forces, and therefore, they will achieve tangible results on the ground, especially that the coalition gained international support even by countries with no direct role in the crisis or in the region. >> we have the latest from beirut. >> reporter: it's the first time we hear from the syrian president since russia's aerial campaign began. a very confident president, and at the end of the day the russian intervention gave him much-needed military as well as

political suspect. the syrian president saying that the new coalition, the russian and iraqi coalition will succeed, confident that it will succeed and appealing to other countries to join this coalition. so a very confident syrian president, and its ally, russia, carrying out more air strikes. what we understand from the russian defense ministry is they hit a number of isil targets, and this raises a question. this is not an isil stronghold, and the opposition has really started to question the motives of the russian operation. this is a stronghold rebels and is strategic, but what we understand from the activists is they were heavy air strikes, and they believe the russian war planes were responsible in the northern countryside of homs. what we are seeing on the ground is the air strikes are concentrating on an area, an arc around the province of lapaki,

the regime stronghold. as of late the rebels were advancing towards the stronghold. now we see these russian air strikes, which will undoubtedly protect the strategic areas controlled by the syrian government. questions are being asked by russian's motives. the president called on other nations to join the coalition and criticizing the u.s.-led coalition saying it did nothing on the ground. the opposition is not interested in joining the latest u.n. peace initiative. we're back at square one. there's no doubt that the russian intervention complicated an already difficult and complex situation in syria. a jordanian member of parliament was killed while fighting for isil in iraq. he was involved in a triple car bombing against an iraqi army post. as we report, he's not the first to join the armed group. little can ease the pain of

jordanian mp whose 23-year-old son was killed in iraq. he died in a suicide attack against the iraqi arm in al anbar while fighting alongside isil. even though paying condolences appeared shocked and confused. he left ukraine where he was studying medicine to join isil in june. efforts by his father and jordianian officials to him from entering syria through turkey failed. his father insists isil exploited his son. >> translator: my son was tricked and used and is a victim of isil. the last time we talked, he said it was the last time we would hear from him. he asked for our forgiveness because he signed up for a suicide mission. >> reporter: in their sporadic contact, he said that his son called him apostate serve parliament.

he said he's against his son's ideology and will continue to fight it. jordan increased strikes against isil after they burned alive a pilot they captured in northern syria last december. >> translator: there is a feeling among the new generation of young men in the arab world that they're defending a just cause. whether in syria or iraq, these men see fighting for these causes as a religious duty. >> officials have not commented but the government's stand on fighting isil remains as is. >> reporte >> translator: jordan is a major member fighting terrorism, and we also cooperate in sharing security and intelligence information and we project the true and peaceful image of islam. >> reporter: around 3,000 jordians have left the country to join armed groups including isil and al nusra front and more than 350 have been killed. analysts say jordan's fight against foreign groups abroad

should be complemented about i a fight against extremism at home. efforts should not only focus on cracking down on those that promote terrorist ideology, but also on social and intellectual change. al jazeera, amman. >> still to come on this al jazeera news hour, the desperate search for survivoring in gaut malala. hundreds are still missing in a landslide. thousands of miners go on strike in south africa. coming up in sports, a huge day of football across europe. we have the action as well as updates later in the program. inches israeli security forces have put severe restrictions on palestinians entering the old city of jerusalem. it follows two separate attacks on israelis by palestinians. mike hanna reported from occupied east jerusalem. >> reporter: the old city was in

a virtual state of lockdown. for palestinians who wished to enter, that is. heavily armed police blocking all the access gates. the unprecedented security measures followed two separate knife attacks overnight. two israelis were killed in the first and one likely injured in the second. in each incident the palestinian attackers, both 19, were shot dead. tourists continued to be allowed into the old city. slowly filing through the police lines while palestinian after palestinian is being turned away. israeli citizens are as usually allowed unfettered access, but the only palestinians allowed to enter are those that own businesses in the old city or are residents there. for those wishing to worship at the al asqu mosque only men over 50 can enter and they have to come through this specific gate, a lengthy walk away from the traditional point of access.

prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who has been in the united states during the past week of crisis, is coming under intense domestic pressure to take stronger measures against the palestinians. even members of his own government are saying not enough is being done to combat what they call palestinian terror. the israeli army carried out several operations in the occupied west bank. some related to the overnight attacks and others in the wake of the killing of two settlers on thursday. throughout the day it became increasingly clear that far from being confined to jerusalem, the conflict was spreading throughout all occupied territory. mike hanna, al jazeera, in occupied east jerusalem. at least 16 people have died in flooding along the french rivera. in some areas about two months of rain is said to have fallen in just hours. robert matherson reports

>> reporter: cars litter the street. the cleanup begins but some are still shocked by the memories of the deluge that swept through their little town. >> translator: the water was up to here. somebody came to get me. i couldn't walk because of the water pressure tflts horrible. i can't talk about this anymore. >> reporter: the city of nice is estimated to receive 10% of its average yearly rainfall in two days alone. the force of the water was deadly. many people drowned in their own cars trapped in tunnels and undercar parks. some managed to escape. >> translator: we arrived at this cross roads. a lot of water was coming down the two-lane road, and the car was taken away and left there. so we were forced to get out of the car through the window, because the water was higher than the car windows. >> reporter: french president francois hollande has visited the towns where they expect to find more bodies as the waters finally begin to recede. at least 95 people are dead

and hundreds more missing after a massive landslide covered much of a town in gaut guatemala. david mercer reports. >> reporter: it's guatemala's worst national sddisaster in years. part of this mountainside clabed late thursday under 100 cubic meters of earth. rescue workers and volunteers race against time shovels through mountains of dirt in the search for survivors, but today all they found were lifeless bodies, a hard reality for many here. >> translator: six of my family members are missing, my parents and four siblings. i haven't been able to rest and i won't be able to until i see them again. asking to see them a live is a lot. they're bur yired under 15 meters of dirt. >> reporter: it hit around 9:30

at night when many people were at home. it followed days of near constant rain. those who said ran out of their homes when they heard the hillside crashing down. many didn't escape. >> translator: my neighbor's house was here along this edge. when it was hit, everything was pushed back two meters. they're digging here but haven't found any survivors. >> reporter: heavy machinery was brought in by the army, and more than 1,600 rescuers have joined the search motivated by signs of survivors. every 20 or 30 minutes you hear a whistle below and everybody stops working. that means that somebody thinks they heard a voice coming from underneath all the tons of mud and rock. with this layered up 45 meters on top of the hours, many people here say that they're running out of hope. rescue workers have no plans to stop the search, but the moment the rain falling again, they could suspend the operation. >> translator: we can see that

the hill opposite the slide also runs the risk of a landslide, and on the side that already collapsed, there's a fracture that could bring down more earth. >> reporter: some say this was a disaster foretold. in 2008 authorities warned local politicians that this ravine was a risk zone and that no one should be living here. david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala. about 630,000 refugees and migrants have entered the eu illegally this year according to the bloc's border agency. they say that that figure includes entries up until the end of the september. that's a significant increase from 2014 when there were about 284,000 arrivals during the whole year. voting is due to finish soon in portugal's general election. they predict the prime minister's center right governing coalition will bin a

slight margin. they promise to continue with austerity measures if they're relocated. voters in courage stan are widely expected to return to power on sunday. it's a test for the young democracy which remains vulnerable to political stability after ousting two presidents during uprising in 2005 and 2010. the center left democrat that is lead the coalition are predicted to emerge as the largest party in parliament. fair firmly associated with the president, even though he formally stepped down as their leader whether elected to head of state in 2011. he moved the nation close to her we have more from the capital. >> reporter: sij stan's voting made it harder to commit

electoral fraud. still the country's president believes kig stan has set a new standard. >> reporter: he still has significant control over parliament. a coalition to share power with him is the likely outcome. there's work to be done. kyrgyzstan is racked by corruption and a chronically weak economy. he said he backed them because they promised to cut government spending. she says she voted for the kyrgyzstan party because it represents the youth and they are the foout of this country. five years ago thousands of people protested on these same

streets to overthrow a corrupt regime. the result of that was an experiment in parliament democracy. five years on, and these transparent elections suggest that experiment may be working. it's an imperfect system. it could still set a democratic example to the rest of the region. in niger at least ten people have been killed. witnesses say two suicide bombers blew themselves up after being stopped by soldiers and another detonated his vest close to an army base. children are among the dead. at least eight people have been killed in shootings between police and protesters. they accused them of targeting critics of the president returned to power in a disputed election. 30,000 coal miners in south africa have gone on strike over a pay dispute. negotiations had broken down

between the country's biggest labor union and the coal industry on thursday. south africa relies heavily on coal to produce electricity. the state power company says it has enough coal to last for a month. we have more from johannesburg. >> reporter: about a thinked of coal miners are on strike across south africa from this evening after wage talks deadlock in the last week between the national union of mine workers and employers here in south africa. the mine workers union wants an increase of at least 14% for its lowest paid workers who at this point are earning under $400 a month. they want an increase of $80 per worker. now the employers are facing rather difficult environment across the coal industry as the chinese economy has slowed down, the price of coal has, of course, dropped and employers are having to pay higher labor and power costs. now, the major concern in south

africa is how the power provider, the electricity utility will be able to keep up and provide electricity across the country. south africa's reliant on coal. it only has about a month's supply of coal available, and if this strike does go on longer than a month, it is going to have to come up with contingency plans. once the reserves dry out, it goes to the mines to bring in coal directly from the mines to the power plants. that will mean higher costs for escom. across south africa the major concern is the duration of the strike and how it will impact the provision of power as well as the economy. they have a long tradition among south africa's traditional tribes, but strict regulations in natural parks threaten the harvesting of herbs. one bush doctor came up with an urban solution to the problem. from capetown we have the

explanation. >> reporter: she comes to the national park in capetown to be inspired. he's a bush doctor. the healing powers of these plants have been used for centuries, but unlike his ancestors he's supposed to have a permit to pick herbs. >> at the first instance, it's not right. we've been picking herbs through the generations, indigenous people, without permits. >> reporter: the restrictions mean herb sellers like dorothy williams struggle to get enough stock, yet, demand is high. >> there's a lot of youth that is coming on to the city. so they know where the knowledge is and where they get the right stuff. >> reporter: this grandmother is a convert. she says bush doctor's pain relieving oil is better than the cream prescribed by the doctor. >> we started using the oil he

recommended to us, and we start to see she wasn't restless at night from the pain. >> reporter: the challenge is how to you keep ancient traditions alive in a modern world full of rules and regulations. the u.n. recognizes this national park as one of the richest areas for plants in thes world. it should be protected. finding a balance between preserving nature and tradition is difficult. they have come up with a compromise. it's a herb garden right in the heart of the township where the people need it most. it has all the herbs bush doctors need. >> it is good for chest complaints, flu. our people used to use it. >> reporter: by moving the herbs closer to the houses in a city that's sprawled at the foot of the mountains, he's keeping an increasingly urban people in touch with their healing roots. tanya page, al jazeera, capetown, south africa. plenty more to come on this

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place like this again. hello. a reminder of the top stories. the taliban is retain most of the northern afghan city of kunduz despite u.s.-backed afghan forces saying they had more gains. russia said it carolled owl aerial bombardment in syria for a fifth day. groups say it has targeted other syrian rebel groups. 16 people died in storms and flooding that struck the french rivera. the world bank is to raise the poverty line by 65 cents to $1.90. people are living in poverty if

they earn less than per day. how has it changed over the years and what does the newest adjustment mean for the poor? we look at the numbers. >> reporter: the poverty line lel and tlel hoed and goes by many names but it's more than just a turn of phrase. when we say people living below the property line, it has been officially defined. different countries have different thresholds, but the world bank has the definitive one. back in 1990 it was a dollar. if you lived on a dollar a day or less, then you are below the pofrt line. in 2008 there was a revision, but it was based on, as you see, 2005 data and raised it to $1.25 a now in 2015 we look at $1.90 a day, which is a significant jump, isn't it? in people terms that will reclassify a further 148 million people as living in extreme poverty joining the $800 -- 800

million below the level today. the numbers sound concerning but the view from the united nations say it's part of a wider correction. >> i don't think we should be too alarmed at that shift. in fact, if you look at the first goal in the agenda, at that talks about $1.25 currently determined. this agenda they establish leaves the flexibility of revising upward the extreme poverty line because it has been statistically rigorous and correct. so i think the spot of that exercise of course adds many more people to the pool of extreme poverty, but that should be normal and expected because after all, all the basis lines are changing, prices are changes, inflation takes its own toll. as long as we get the same consumption basket as we had when the figure was 1.25, i think we're doing fine. >> now, they mentioned the sdg

agenda there, that is sustainable development goals, which to be fair have been something of a success for the united nations. the millennium goal they were labeled in 2000 saw the target of reducing extreme poverty by half met five years early. more than a billion got above that poverty line since 2000, but the big one is still to come. a hugely am birks goal to end extreme poverty by 2030 just 15 years away and in theory now a more difficult task. he's been to new delhi to see how people there cope. >> reporter: crammed together, stacked haphazardly on top of each other. this is what many of india's urban poor call home. this family struggles every day just to eat. she says corruption and bureaucracy means her family doesn't get the ration cards or other benefits they're entitled to. >> translator: these are my kids, and they live like this.

today there's bread, but maybe tomorrow there's not. if we don't have work, where will the money come from? >> reporter: with little outside help, this daily struggle has become a way of life for most people here. this situation for the poor is common in many parts of the country in both rural and urban areas. even if the poor here met the world bank's new poverty line measure of $19.00 -- $1.90 may say it's not enough to live on. her husband is well aware of the plight but says there's not much he can do about it. >> translator: offai don't have work so we're poor. we're managing to survive. somehow i manage to get work to feed my child. i'm not trained or educated. all i can do is manual labor. >> reporter: these are common complaints. but it's made worse according to those that work with the poor by some basic services being

privatized driving up costs even further. >> you have the poor having to access high-cost public services be it education, hospitals, or be it in water. therefore, that model is the reason why even if people get $2 a day they're still poor because you can't access basic services and get decent jobs. >> reporter: experts say india's rapid economic growth is another reason why artificial poverty lines don't reflect realities on the ground where people are just trying to survive. a powerful typhoon of winds of more than 175 kilomeres per hour made landfall near the southern chinese coastal city. authorities issued the highest red alert emergency response to the typhoon. thousands have been moved to higher ground and fishing fleets have been ordered not to go out to sea. the world's oceans are in

trouble from plastics pollution to overfishing, there seems to be no end to the pressures on the seas that cover 70% of the planet. how to deal with that is a focus of a major conference in chile being attended by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry. despite the pressures, there are still marine wonders to be found sometimes in the most unlikely places. nick clark reports. >> reporter: we're speeding out to a sight in the heart of arabian gulf. close to the maritime border between iran and qatar. 80 kilometers out the oil field, a high security zone closed to the public. right here every summer something extraordinary happens. the whale sharks arrive in huge numbers. gentle giants filter feeding on the surface. it is a bewildering sight and

they come right up to boat and nearly 400 have been identified here. you think for all the world there would be nothing here at all. the outside air temperature is plus 40. it's not that different in the sea itself, and yet, every summer there is this enormous aggregation of this iconic species. the platforms are owned by mersk oil and for five years they research this annual arrival. >> the plan right now is to get our equipment ready and get this satellite tag ready. we really want to know where the females are going, because we really don't know where at the give birth. hopefully they can tell us more about where the females go. >> reporter: from the surface it's impressive. from below it's just astonishing. the sharks come here mouths

agape sucking in the invisible eggs of small mark rel tuna that spawned in millions. the question is what draws them to waters too hot for biodiversity. >> we think that the seek vet to the place is the currents. it's a cyclonic current and sucks the water up. maybe also the platforms. >> reporter: the platforms have turned into artificial reefs which attract species that would not otherwise live here and help to concentrate the mackerel tuna spawning. >> it's a unique place to study whale sharks. you haven't got the influence of people being in the water with them at the same time. the aggregation, there's a lot of problems and a lot of conflict with regard to tourism, but obviously here it's very far ashore and a hostile environment. >> reporter: back at the mersk oil laboratories, they continually monitor the signals put out by the satellite tags.

>> they're still aggregating around the platforms, and then we still have four females that are tagged. it's exciting to see what they do next. hopefully they go on a long journey, and you know, reveal where they actually give birth to their young. >> reporter: it is an unlikely sight in the heart of an oil and gas field. soon the whale sharks will disappear for the winter to return next april. the natural wonder only goes to demonstrate how important it is to look after the oceans of the world. nick clark, al jazeera, the arabian gulf, qatar. >> william mckenzie works for greenpeace. we want to talk about the problems with the ocean in a minute. what do you make of the pictures of the whale sharks? >> they're so big and gentle and right at the heart of the ocean

system eating tiny things in the ocean. they're iconic and symbolic of the bigger problems in oceans. >> one of the issues is the issues of plastics in the ocean. tell us why that's so important and how it affects the marine life. >> basically our oceans aren't just water but a weak plastic soup because of the track we generation and stuff we flush down the toilets and sinks to. it can be waste thrown away and stuff dropped in the ocean. it breaks down. plastic lives for hundreds of thousands of years. so something that's innocuous and throw-away is hazardous in the ocean. >> one reported suggested it should be a handful of countries where the effort should be placed. this is ocean conservatory saying the focus should be on places like china, indonesia, the philippines, thailand and vietnam because they contribute

more than half of the ocean's plastic and the effort should be concentrated on getting them to sort themselves out. is that the right approach? >> it's a little bit simplistic to think the problem is somebody else's. it's something we did in the ocean for quite some time. if you go in the deepest reaches, they find bits of plastic. is this stuff is turning up in plankton and seafood. it's a lot simpler to say it's somebody else's problem, partly because we export recycled waste to some countries. it needs to be an international effort and tackle the big companies that are creating this. >> what about the kind of individual in this? can someone say i really want to help protecting the ocean. this is what i can do? >> sure. the worst thing we can say because what you do as an individual is not enough. you can take every bit of plastic taken out of the ocean off the beach is a good thing,

right? you can't use those tiny beads of plastic that skroub and flush down the waste system. you can't use plastic bags and buying bottled water. there's lot of things you cans do. re-use, reduce, recycle. it's a simple idea. it's central to protecting the environment. >> when you mention the corporation's role in this, is there any incentive on them to change? >> i think there has to be. we have an idea that plastic is cheap, but it isn't, actually. it's not costed properly. we don't factor in what it does to the oceans and elsewhere. this stuff is around hundreds of thousands of years. who is thinking about the cleanup. that needs tosh internalized in the cost of producing plastic. plastic is an amazing thing. we need to use it properly and value it properly and create things out of plastic we can reclaim and re-use at the end much their life. >> what about fishing?

that's what people know about with the threat to the ocean. has there been any progress in the area? >> there are big things in the ocean, and they work together for all the things in the ocean and the people that depend on it. overfishing is one of the biggest problems, but it should be solvable. if we want fish in the future, we need to sort it out. we treat the oceans badly and people badly. you know, 75% of the fisheries around the world are seen as overexploited and some populations are down by 90%. so we need to do that better, and we need to think about our impact when we buy and eat fish. it's one of the reasons we campaign against companies like ty union, the biggest tuna producer, which is a massive contributor to overfishing and destruction in the ocean. you don't think when you eat tuna that you have an impact on endangered turtles and sharks,

but that is true. we need to internalize these costs much more. >> thank you for joining us. mexico's first ever independent governor has been sworn in. he will run the key industrial border state. he's vowed to eradicate corruption. we went to meet the man who is challenging the political elite. >> reporter: his nickname is el gronko which roughly translating into untameable. his heroes are the "lone ranger" and zorro, the fictional rider who is justice. the rags-to-riches farmer and politician went from town to town in the prosperous border state literally passing the hat to get himself elected as the first ever independent governor. >> translator: people want to know how we managed to defeat the system, and i tell them, we

were characters of "star wars" defeating the empire with a legion of citizens that organized. it made them more powerful in the political parties. >> reporter: a social conservative who curses and raring takes off his cowboy boots vows to defeat corruption and launch a new mexican revolution. rodriguez belonged to mexico's most powerful and long-serving party, the pri, for 33 years until he resigned a year ago to run as an independent winning against all odds to take over the governor's office. as the mayor, rodriguez took on organized crime and purged corrupt police with a network of citizen informants who reported criminal activities on the social networks. his weapon of choice. >> translator: i'm addicted to facebook. i respond to frn. i start at 6:00 a.m. and work until 9:00. people tell me their problems

and they're right sometimes to be angry. >> reporter: at his home in garcia, he shows us the photograph of his 22-year-old son who died when drug traffickers tried to kidnap her. rodriguez himself barely survive twoed assassination attempts when he was mayor. now as governor he says he will continue to use the social networks to eradicate corruption and vee lens, a vow he made to his deceased son. >> translator: i have a network of 78,000 volunteers on the web. only i manage it and control it. all of them will monitor the government and the public servants, including me. >> reporter: some describe rodriguez as a naive he can centric with an oversized ego. in other parts of the country he's seen as a leader of a new movement capable of bucking mexico's deeply rooted but

disdprased political parties. still ahead on the program -- >> these are some of the most intense rapids anywhere in the world, and for a few weeks each year, people flock here to risk it all for the ride of their lives. we're on the galle river. is that store is coming up. >they continue their pursui of a quarterfinal place in the world cup. all those sports coming up in a moment.

it's considered one of the most daunting and dangerous rivers in the world for whitewater rafting. the river in west virginia draws people from all over the world to try their luck on the rapids. from there gabriel reports. >> reporter: with paddles in hand, they are geared up to face one of the world's wildest rivers. it's the golly and it's particularly ferocious because for six weeks every fall the floodgates of a nearby dam are opened wide sending a huge amount of water down the river. >> it makes the rapids really optimal for whitewater rafting. >> reporter: they came all the way from the u.k. >> it's just a challenge for us. >> that's the reason we're doing it, for the challenge and thrill. >> reporter: a few minutes in and the force of the rapids are evident. the guide shouts out commands. every paddle stroke is critical.

they make it out, but there's more to come. the rapids are ranked based on their difficulty. 1 being easy and 5 the most difficult. here on this river there are 14 class 4 rapids and six class 5s includes this one called pillow rock. there's a shear drop-off. they say it's the ten most exhilirating seconds of whitewater rafting in america. it doesn't always go as planned. in the last 14 years people have died and some were without a guide, but there have been no fatalities the past two seasons. add vept turs on the goerge wil guide 10,000 down the river alone. they say the guides are the key to safety. >> these guys are highly trained

and know this river backwards and fwards. they are very adept in reading water, so when situations change, they can adapt to it. >> reporter: for thrill seekers it's easy to see why so many choose the river nestled deep in a mountain gorge in west virginia. it has 100 rapped in all. after a couple of hours on the river, they take a break, and it's all smiles. >> it was really good, yes. >> the waves splash in your face and hanging on. >> reporter: on a river where the only guarantee is that everyone will get wet. gabe al jazeera on the golle river in wfz. it's time for the sports with robe bin in doe han. >> thank you very much. football first. in the last hour brendan rodgers have been sacked as liverpool manager after a string of disappointing results. this is rogers speaking earlier at a press conference after a 1-1 draw with rivalled everton on sunday.

>> we have to build something here again, and it's going to take time unfortunately. that is frustrating because for support erdz of club watched us grow for a couple of years and lose the quality of players we have is very frustrating. there's new players to come in. it's ghg to take time, whether that's me or someone else in the job. >> it will be with someone else in the job. the 1-1 darby draw as i mentioned was the final result. a result that gave liverpool intense and rogers searching for new employment. the fans celebrate their first league win over manchester united in four years. it was sealed within 20 minutes and it was a 3-0 victory. arsenal is second in the table and united slipped down to third. >> the big one is on the goal

right now in madrid against their neighbors real. 20 minutes gone in the game, and they lead 1-0. the two powerhouses of dutch football met in a clash in amsterdam. between the two teams have gone 55 lead titles and five european cups. on sunday, though, they were comes occupy on top. he scored twice to get inside a 2-1 win. it might close the gap just two minutes. one of the biggest rivalries began in june. 2-2. they helped them claim a 5-1 win 7 points clear at the top of the table. argentina took another step towards the quarterfinals with a bonus point win in the world cup

clash. tonga dominating early. the high tempo start was rewarded with kurt scoring the opening time. back-to-back times through the first half, so the world team starts to take control of this contest. it was watched by football legend diego and argentina shoving it in the second half. out of the match, nicholas sanchez with the 45-16 victory. they qualified for the quarterfinals with the hard-fought victory. they scored a world cup record in 19 minutes. they kept in touch. mahoney was ten minutes left on the clock. he didn't get it gone for the 16-9 win. england arsenal comes to terms with a shock exit at this world cup. lancaster says he will consider

the future against uruguay on saturday. they could be knocked out at the pool stage. they're outclass by the australiaens and they score two tries. the 17-3 lead at the break. england's hopes would raise greatly with anthony watson with over 5 minim -- 25 minutes to g. the final score in this game is 33-16. stafford is the editing chief of the sports website kicker.com. they will need to change management to move forward. >> i think there will be changes. stewart lancaster had four years to get it right. he hasn't remotely got it right. he's a great guy, and he's done a lot of things right especially in terms of english mentality and the behavior has been a lot better. these are peripheral things. you have to get it right on the

pitch first. not being knee-jerky, a lot of people ask for calm. they have a game next week against uruguay, which is the definition of a squibb now. for england and uruguay next week in manchester, who cares. maybe uruguay will feel the team to take on england. there has to be changes i'm afraid because he has a long time to get it right. michael checker from australia has prove that had a good coach after one year and he's already got it right. big chances. preparations to host the 2020 olympics in japan continue to run into problems. they scrapped the original stadium plans last week. they're searching for a new logo for the games as well. rob mcbride reports. >> reporter: this is the site of the olympic stadium when the design for it is finally decided. organizers are still dealing

with the international embarrassment of scrapping the original plans. likened by some to a giant cycling helmet, by others to a turtle or even a toilet seat, it was canceled because of costs. some members of the architectural community doonlt agree with the way it was handled. >> translator: it still hasn't been explained fully why it was scrapped, especially after a major competition. the architects and other companies have worked on this for two years, and for all that work to be wasted is uch a shame. >> reporter: the olympic organizers insist the 2020 games are still on track. >> there is no delay in the games preparations except for the emblems. >> reporter: now hanging in their offices, the logo that was used in the bidding process and not that other emblem. the controversy over the stadium comes amid the continuing problem over the very symbol of the games itself as accusations

of plagiarism the original design had to be redrawn leading to a flourish of online creativity about what should take it's place. the search for a new logo prompted a social media outpouring of creative suggestions in japan and abroad. this designer is something of an olympics logo expert. >> translator: from the 1960s to the '80s, the designs were minimalist with simple components brought together. from the '90s they're more free hand and organic. the tokyo logo looks like the old style and did not feel modern. we shouldn't use an emblem that the people don't love. >> we are learning a lot from this experience. for the next selection of the emblems, we're going to make the process as open as possible and

transparent as possible. >> reporter: with a new stadium design and new logo for the tokyo olympics, organizers are hoping to have a new start. rob mcbride, al jazeera, tokyo. europe's richest horse race is won by a forty time dair fourth time by the jockey. they celebrated well before he crosses the line. goaden horn won the darby in june, and after winning this $6.3 million race in paris he's aiming for the breeders' cup in kentucky next month. that's your sport. it's back to lauren in london. robin, thank you very much indeed. you can keep up with all the sport and the news, of course, on our website, and the address of that is aljazeera.com. you can also watch us live by clicking even on the "watch now" icon. that's it for me, lauren taylor, for this news hour. barbara will be here in a couple of minutes. bye for now.

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