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teams the fly trucks out. nine million children and education. a day of history of horse racing at the melbourne cup. >> unbelievable. it's such a dream come true. >> reporter: michelle paine has become the first female jockey to win australia's most prestigious race. ♪ french president is intensifying efforts to find global support for a comprehensive climate deal ahead of a major summit in france and on his second day in chew they and had talks with his china counterpart on monday and it's a key participant with the conference set to begin later this month and hope that a binding deal to slow the rising global temperatures will be reached at the summit and china was the world's largest carbon e

mitter and successful to an agreement and rob mcbride is live from beijing and rob tell us more about this meeting, it's being rahailed as a success. >> that's right he was a 21 point declaration from the two leaders which sets up china and france as being partners in the fight against climate change and it may be short on backs but certainly hit the right tone and gave the right message and he will go back to france ahead of the talks claiming he had a china on board which is the biggest producer of greenhouse gasses of carbon and also very important for those talks. as we said they have both committed themselves to taking on climate change, describing it as one of the biggest challenges now facing humanity. >> translator: the climate is the biggest question facing us

all. it will determine peace in the coming decades. it will equally decide the quality of life and even life. we would like president xing and myself to make a declaration ahead of the up coming paris summit and it will commitment both countries to a deal and also seen as a foundation of an agreement in paris. >> reporter: and rob china's cooperation is vital isn't it but can it cooperate and protect its economy? >> that's right, i mean it is the biggest producer of carbon and accounts for half of the coal the world burns and of course the using of cheap, dirty coal has been used to drive economic growth but you do see now a possibly a sea change and seen it in the last year for example as green groups point out the amount of coal china burns year on year has actually reached a plateau and hopefully

it will stop the dependence on coal and it has new energy with greener fuels and energy and we are short on details in this actual declaration give hope for the peace talks we are seeing a different china. you will remember of course that china has been accused in the past because of driving the economy of talks and watering down agreements and now possibly we are seeing a maturer, stronger, more comforting china being able to shine up as a protector if you like of the world's environment. >> rob thank you for that, rob mcbride in beijing there. chinese capitol beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world but the air is half as toxic as new deli and the indian capitol is the world's most polluted city and we report on efforts to try to cleanup the air. >> reporter: most of the

commercial trucks entered in the capitol a carrying goods for other states and merely using the city as a transit point and according to several studies the trucks are responsible for nearly a third of the pollution and add to the falling temperatures an smoggy haze is here and rated the most polluted in the world with small airborne partibles according to world health organization and the trucks go through the city the country's supreme court has imposed a green tax on all commercial trucks as a way to cap plugs but there has already been problems in collecting that tax as a private operators running the toll booths say they are not in the position to collect a tax from the truck drivers and many environmentalists say having cleaner fuels through the country would be a more effective method as they simply move the pollution outside of the city instead of reducing it

altogether if drivers are forced to drive longer distances to go around the city and the green tax. a rare cyclone with winds 160 kilometers an hour is in yemen and it has killed three people and injured at least 200 others on the yemen island and we have the latest. as waves crash into the seawall strong winds and torrential rain are on the coast of aiden and on thursday this tropical cyclone was close to a category five hurricane with wind up to 250 kilometers an hour. and it has since weakened but it is still hurricane strength and unprecedented. >> on rare occasions fairly weak tropical cyclones that have moved on to the coast of yemen. the last time there was a tropical storm in yemen was back

in 1960. >> reporter: a weaker tropical cyclone hit yemen in 2008, that storm killed at least 180 people and left quite a lot of damage behind. chapala is much stronger. coastal areas are flooded and expecting flood waters to cause mud slides and may bring 250 toe 500 meters of rainfall. >> that is a few years worth of rainfalling in a day or two. >> reporter: it has made rainfall south of the port city where the area has been under the control of al-qaeda since april. >> the power supply has gone down and communication is a problem. >> reporter: it's expected to weaken as it moves towards the capital sanaa controlled by houthi rebels and some organizations worry they are not equipped to handle this natural

disaster. >> we have talked powerhouses with tents and food and drinkable water and ready to respond should the cyclone hit hard. it did actually sweep over the island yesterday but the damages were not as big as initially foreseen and racing for a low impact now, also for the rest of the country. >> reporter: cyclone chapala was expected to impact the gulf state but there is concern in yemen even after the storm loses strength after making land fall. rob is here with all the weather and rob we will start with the cyclone how much more is there to come of it? >> all of it has to dump and it's probably halfway through finishing raining i would say and you heard it went past it and this is where it was category three stroke four hurricane effectively, this is the equivalent strength and called a cyclone and where it is in the world and it got away

with minor damages as you heard and since that point it did decline in its strength but it has been sitting over warm waters for about five days and although the clouds dispersed fairly rapidly on satellite picture there are vast amount of rain to come out and legacy weather with it, what it did in the shall seas and you saw pictures, this is social media and pictures from them and we just saw and that is actually a river and a storm drain effectively and usually not particularly full of water so you can see how much has fallen. i don't think it's has done a huge amount of damage but i cannot be sure because that is what it brought with us because it was blowing 100 kilometers and it's below category one and it's like a major storm and gusting 125 and moving inland and the movement is almost irrelevant because you want to spot it as a storm any more. now the potential rainfall still to come the is 250 millimeters and the storm surge was about a

meter and way out six meters and as a comparison seven millimeters is the annual rainfall and you can see why it will cause a lot of trouble. >> a huge difference and thank you for that. iraqi politician a controversial alie of the u.s. during the 2003 iraq invasion has died. the 71-year-old died of a heart attack in his baghdad home and ahmed chalabi pur swayed the u.s. of weapons of mass destruction and much of what he gave of evidence turned out to be false and bush administration later distanced itself from him and trying to make a political come back in iraq. u.s. president barack obama defended his decision to send special forces in syria and saying it is an extension of what they are doing and the comment since it was announced says they won't be fighting in syria but working with trainers. >> we have run special ops

already and really this is just an extension of what we are continuing to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines fighting fire fights with i.s.i.l. but i've been consistent throughout that we are not going to be fighting like we did in iraq with a battalions and occupations, that doesn't solve the problem. >> reporter: a rebel group in syria is locking people in cages and using them as shields trying to stop air strike and want them to stop targeting duma and dana has the story. >> reporter: this is how they plan to fight back against syrian air raids and decided to put their prisoners in cages and scatter them in residential areas as a way to pressure the government to stop targeting duma. they paraded them in the streets

to tell the world that these men and women will be used as heme shields and the prisoners are believes to be officers and their family from the alawhi alawhite-sect. >> translator: what happened most people decided to place the prisoners and high regime officers in cages in towns in eastern guda so they can taste our misery and targeted by russian air strikes as our children and our women are. >> reporter: duma is regularly targeted by government air strikes and friday's attack was one of the worst yet and doctors without borders says 70 were killed and 550 others wounded in what it describes as an extremely violent bombing, the target was a marketplace and it was when they were targeted, in august more than 100 people were killed in duma and the

opposition's largest stronghold in the damascus stronghold which is under siege and a few days ago a makeshift clinic was also hit. >> translator: two bombs hit the makeshift clinic and it was a direct hit and the patients and staff were killed and injured and they are five kilometers from the front line and we usually see 5,000 patients a month. >> reporter: this is efforts to find a political solution, u.n. special envoy staffan de mistura visited damascus following talks where world powers and regional rooifers discussed syria and called for a nationwide truce and renewal of peace talks and at the same time there are efforts by some members of the u.n. security council to enforce a resolution to stop bombs by syrian government forces and britain's ambassador to the u.n. said it is important for what he called the indiscriminate bombing to stop because it kills and terrorizes and also one of

the causes of the flood from syria and it will oppose any resolution because it believe it will jeopardize diplomatic efforts that so far failed to end the war, beirut. approved tougher measures against rock throwing and raised the minimum prison term to three years and voted 51-17 approving a series of amendments to the law and say parents of a minor in prison to the rock throwing will be denied state benefits for the period of the child's prison term. the occupied west bank a palestinian radio station has been raided by israeli forces and in hebron was taken off the air and shot down and accuse the station of inciting violence but the station director calls the move a violent aggression on the palestinian media. stay with us on the news hour with more to come including european union, it's not the

union. >> reporter: record numbers of refugees arrive in europe and hear from volunteers helping in greece plus the scanndal widens with global emissions cheating involving some porch and audi models and the tax man has a key interest in a payment made by german futbol bosses. ♪ remains of nine victims from saturday's plane crash in sinai peninsula has been identified and the bodies of more victims arrived in sta petersburg on tuesday and still don't know what brought the plane down. >> reporter: the president insists that i.s.i.l. played no part in the bringing down of this aircraft but the russian

news agency task has a source in the search and rescue team on the ground in egypt that says they have uncovered and found elements that do not belong from that aircraft. you can make what you want of that. meanwhile the hotel behind me the families have been taken out to the morgue to try and identify their loved ones. so far there is 140 bodies there and another 100 body parts and at the moment they said they have positively identified nine people. the mayor of the greek island of lesbos says there is no more room to bury the refugees who drown in the aegean sea and hundreds died trying to cross from turkey and we report from the place that is a gate way to europe for thousands of refugees. with all the tragedy they have seen still aid workers keep looking on lesbos the sea may be calmer but nerves are on edge.

when the refugees make it ashore the sense of relief is eclipsed only by a growing outrage. >> i cannot imagine and ashamed i'm a european and from holland and a big shame with the european union, union, it's not the union. for me it's not the union at all. >> reporter: and one of many here committed to helping. >> dying and saw elderly people almost dying. i cannot imagine that you can live with yourself when this is your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees while extremely grateful for the help know life won't get much easier any time soon but for many choosing to stay in their home land may have been an even riskier option. >> translator: the chose between dying in the sea or iraq

i take the sea. >> reporter: he tells me that he, his wife and four children had no other choice. in iraq it's the children who were sacrificed he says, ministers don't die, officers don't die, presidents don't die, it's the children and the families who die. here the kids are a priority trying to make their fear recede even if just for a few minutes. over 200,000 refugees arrived in europe by sea in october alone. that is roughly the same amount as arrived in all of 2014. aid workers here believe that huge increase in numbers is because refugees are trying to make this journey before their window of opportunity closes for good. many worry the winter will soon keep them from crossing while many others fear europe will soon prevent them from entering while camps have been built even the united nations refugee agency says much more still

needs to be done. >> we issued a call to the european union to front us to both sides of the strait and get more ships out there and save more people because this is going to get out of control. >> reporter: on the beach emotions continue to ebb and flow. there is generosity all around but hardly any of it is state sponsored. its volunteers driving these efforts, as frustrated as they are as a loot they look for any way possible to help, mohamed, al jazeera, lesbos, greece. international accused greece and eu not doing enough to stop the drownings and says a fence on the border of turkey is forcing people to take the dangerous sea route and they arrived in turkey on monday and the coast guard rescued 1400 people on saturday and sunday. german chancellor angela merkel says turkey and greece must work

together to stem the flow of refugees. >> translator: it cannot be right that we currently have a situation between turkey and greece, two nato member countries where people smugglers are in charge instead of the border control agents of the countries and must ensure legality again or people smugglers will bring more and more people. fuel tankers to fill up in china to ease an energy cities and 12 entered and several more ex specificeded on tuesday and last month beijing provided to provide emergency fuel aid and fuel has not reached nepal from india after they started blocking a major highway and let's see how the crisis unfolded and protests began in the southern plains region over a draft constitution with the addition of new states and the ethnic and cultural ties of

indians across the border opposed the new boundaries, in august seven police officers and four civilians killed during violent protest on september the 20th it was adopted despite the concentrations and put it blockades at transit routes from india and they depend on india for all supplies and accuse them of supporting the blockade and they blocked a blockade with hundreds of indian trucks to pass through. and money is a nepal and supporting politics by this blockade and what is your assessment? >> india is not supporting the blockade, india is conducting the blockade and india is the monopoly supplier of fuel to nepal and diesel and pet

petroleum and access into nepal and china and very far from the mainland and mountains of terrain and the roads destroyed by the earthquake of april so nepal is india bound and india locked and this blockade, the world needs to know that there is a problem within nepal that is a problem regarding the dissatisfaction with the constitution by certain segments of the population, yes, and that has to be sorted out within nepal and within the constitutional democratic process. what is happening is to my complete satisfaction having followed the notes out of the ministry of affairs in new deli and actions on the ground by the monopoly supplier it's a blockade and has to be called that, not a defective but the fact nepal is suffering and no

oxygen in the hospital and do not have petrol and schools have been closed. >> in india of course would dispute that it is organizing this blockade and nevertheless as you pointed out there is a grievance by the community and they feel they have been discriminated against and the constitution does not address their discrimination, is the nepal government willing to work through these issues? >> nepal means the political parties that went in the constitution are now in parliament, they are conducting talks with what is the activist and with the politicians and the planes and, yes, my understanding is that there is enough room for compromise and enough room for discussion between the forces and, yes, as you said india will dispute and has disputed the fact this is a blockade conducted by it. i can only say as a person

looking at it from the ground here that two things have to be done the nepal government and dissatisfied groups has to talk and has to be a resolution to that and internally they cannot be. again, every aspect of international law to the right of the countries and what india has done is go against humanity and humanitarian crisis and goes against international law. >> good to have you thoughts there speaking to us live from katmandu. u.s. regulators say more cars built by volkswagen were rigged for diesel emissions tus and audi and porch are now in the spotlight as well and tom ackerman reports. >> reporter: last september the u.s. regulators said they discovered nearly half a million vw and audi powered by 2.0

diesel engines had benefitted with illegal software and fooled testers saying they met the limits of nitrogen and the cars were releasing nine times or more of the smog producing gas and additional testing found at least 10,0003.0 diesel models including the deluxe 2016 porsches were equipped with the defeat devices and volkswagen failing to disclose as legally required that the cars were fitted with additional emission control devices and the environmental protection agency added the investigation in the matter is continuing, the epa may find additional violations as the investigation continues. the regulators say they plan to test light-duty diesel vehicles made by other car makers as well. before the latest disclosures, volkswagen had planned to recall more than eight million vehicles

sold in europe with illegal software as cars in india and north america. last week it announced the company's first operating lost in 15 years going to $7.4 billion it set aside to pay for the corrections but the money wouldn't cover the cost of battling hundreds of pending lawsuits against volkswagen and include a class action suit to force it to buy back all the rigged vehicles it sold in california and hurting the company's over all performance after vw topped toyota this year as the world east best selling car maker, tom ackerman with al jazeera. more to come in the program and writers in indonesia want to shed light on the dark past and the government has other ideas plus. i'm daniel lack in central canada and largely agricultural area has seen many rural villages die as farming changes but all around me here is what

is called an eco village and a place that is striving economically and environmentally. in sport we will hear from lebron james as he breaks yet another nba record, stay with us. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down,

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russia immediate y says elements found at the site of a plane crash in egypt that don't belong to the aircraft and confusion as to what brought the plane down in the sinai peninsula, all 224 passengers and crew were killed. and the mayor of the greek island of lesbos says there is no more room to bury those who died in the sea and entering europe last month all in the whole of 2014. let's get more on the french president's visit to china, andrew young is an independent china analyst and is live from hong kong and good to have you with us and it's clear the paris talks to succeed to get some kind of binding agreement it's crucial china comes on board, does today's announcement including compliance checks with a deal bring us closer to that? >> well, i think this is very

different from last time from copenhagen because china has made it known that the country will cut its emission, will capits emission by 2030 and, in fact, the tallies with what china is trying to do to grow the economy into more sustainable model and also paying more attention to pollution and also environmental degradation that happened since the communist party and for china it's not just a question of polar bears and blue skies for the children and children's children and it's a matter of security as well and not only internally but cutting down on the dependence on oil and gas and with the coast reduce china's risk to external barriers and obstacles, for example the more oil transiting the persian gulf and also through the south china sea and

also unintended or unforeseen circumstances that threatens china's stability and it's a big agenda for china. >> i was going to say you are right china's attitude seems to be changing and they pledged to support negotiations in paris and want to move away from oil and gas. so how far is china now developing greener technologies and greener ecology? >> well, china, in fact, one of the leaders in green energy for example hydro, there was much more in store capacity than many other countries and causing the use of solar power and wind energy together with the manufacturing of solar panels and in terms of solar panels they are also being used in housing across a vast part of china and also the green energy

is written in the plan and in the coming five-year plan it will be giving a bigger push. >> thank you very much indeed for that andrew young live from hong kong. the coast guard rescued a group of cuban migrants abandon at sea and left behind by traffickers after their boat broke down and gerald tan has details. >> for three hours their boat was adrift in the caribbean, the group of 15 men and five women were found without life jackets or any kind of safety equipment. the two traffickers to provide safe passage left them after the engine on their vessel failed. >> translator: they found the boat adrift and when an inspection was carried out there were 20 people aboard of cuban immigrants and nationality and we were shown the people who transported them the migrant traffickers abandon them in the

middle of the sea. >> reporter: the recent foreign relations with the united states has paved the way for business in cuba, international companies are scrambling to enter the market and the u.s. company sprint has just signed a major roaming deal the first of its kind between the two countries but cuba is still under embargo and most people there feel left out. >> translator: i left cuba because of the economy, the economy is very weak and everyone needs to follow a dream to live in a different way, everyone can own a car in other countries. in cuba you cannot have anything. the salary is very low. the economy is very weak so everyone needs to see if they can prosper and improve economically. >> reporter: thousands of cubans take to the sea each year but the problem of exploitation in the hands of traffickers only seems to be festering and columbia rescued 500 off the coast and triple that in 2014.

gerald tan, al jazeera. future of a controversial oil pipeline that would run from canada to the u.s. gulf coast is in doubt. the trans canada company which is building the keystone pipeline asked the u.s. to suspend its project and the white house says president obama will make a ruling before it leaves office and the project is bad for the environment and the $8 billion project has had little support from the obama administration and christopher sands is an analyst on u.s.-canada relations and says trans canada are increasing the chances of getting the pipeline approved. >> i think the project on the merits is a pretty strong one. the fear is that environmental activistst who have focused on this pipeline so much will convince president obama to veto the pipeline. they have already convinced hillary clinton to come out against the pipeline so for the canadians waiting may increase their odds of getting a positive

response from washington. paris and nigeria say a lack of funding is damaging the quality of free public education. with more than 10 million children out of school experts predict a crisis in the years to come and we report. >> reporter: like many girls her age her dream is to be a doctor. she came to this private school to chase that dream because her parents can't afford it. >> the school has good facilities of which it can gave me getting my own ambition. >> reporter: at a public school her friend is also chasing a similar dream but she has a tougher challenge because of her parents' financial standing. >> those who cannot afford to do for you and i'm happy for that because they try their best to see that i'm educated. >> reporter: her parents would rather see her in a private school. facilities in public schools are

either over stretched or nonexistent. this is called a model public school but it's clear the facilities here are not as good as they are in the private sector and poor funding and repeated strike action by teachers have damaged public schools in most part of nigeria and in some areas classes are held out in the open under trees. in theory basic education in nigeria is free yet students still pay fees one way or another. some say the government has gifted students to take places in private schools which are less populated and better equipped. >> it's difficult to equip the quality of education and in the private sector you have the classroom and the private sector don't have more than 25-30 so definitely the quality will not be the same. >> reporter: officials blame long-term neglect of education but said it has not reached a

point of despair. >> systemic problem and we are just talking in terms of activities honestly, you know, but indeed there are a few private schools that are exceptional just like you have some exceptional public schools. >> reporter: but the quality of education even in exceptional public schools is dropping which means students whose parents can afford to send their kids to private schools will continue to have an edge of a public school students. mohamed devries, al jazeera, northeast nigeria. pushed through a controversial plan to introduce state offered history textbooks in school and conservative ruling party says the current system is under mine by biased, left leaning textbook and has been met with widespread opposition and harry faucet is at a protest in seoul. >> reporter: to hold a protest outside a government building in

seoul you call it a press conference and self going on and are opposed to the government plans to bring in its own history textbook to correct the way in the government's words the history is taught to young people in the country and announce its intention three weeks ago there has been the requisite period of judging public opinion and the press conference has gotten bigger but the government says it's going ahead as planned. >> translator: we should not teach our precious children with the bias history textbooks any more and we should make a correct history textbook that is based on objective and effects and search the failures of the constitution. >> reporter: currently eight history textbooks approved by the government but privately produced and the government says that seven of those eight offer distorted bias version of history and the other one is only use in three of south korea's more than 2000 schools and critics are the government position who include opposition parties and include university

lectures and teachers and say the government is trying to distort history a cross over version of some leaders of south korea's past and some links to the japanese colonial period and include in the numbers the further of the current president hay and some critics we have spoken to says the government simply needs to stand down on this issue. >> translator: current state approved textbooks are written in compliance with the government guidance and subject to the government review and even know the government has plenty of power to influence their contents. >> reporter: this has been the dominant issue in south korean politics for the last few weeks that shows no sign of slowing down and main opposition party has a sit in with the party disrupting parliamentary business and legal teams talking about possible court challenges and more than half of the educational superintendents around the country talking ant promoting their own alternative textbook no matter what the government says so the battle goes on and really does

demonstrate how polarized between left and right south korea is right now. the imprisonment of former malaysia abraham was politically motivated and i i'll -- illegal and convicted of sodomy in ten years and serving a five year prison term in february. indonesia people face censorship of two december decades of democracy and forced to cancel for the mass killings of communist in 1965 and we report from bali. ♪ a song of grief and discrimination as a victim of an anticommunist 50 years ago she is silenced once again. the former political prisoner was ban from speaking at one of

asia's largest writer festivals in bali and a photo exhibition of her and other victims was cancelled. >> translator: they are still trying to silence us with this ban it is clear that openness is still far away. i hope one day that this will change. i hope that this country will stop being lied at. >> sacrificing without knowing how to fight. >> reporter: 65 writers and poets from 25 countries is a symbol of indonesia's new freedoms over the past 12 years and the first time the government intervened. >> it is censorship we never had and of course that is the great fear and that is the great fear on the next level for the future. >> reporter: 50 years after the communist in 1965 there is increasing pressure on the government to reveal the truth about the mass executions, estimated 1 million people were

killed and the events still divide the country and democracy and freedom of speech have rights in indonesia they still have new forms of censorship and all eyes are on the president to defend the democratic rights. rights and former political prisoner was forced to cancel the launch of his book breaking the silence with testimonies from 1965. >> translator: i'm angry at presidential colleague and i supported him because i hope as a nonmilitary president he will have more respect for human rights, my question is now can he up hold this in our constitution. >> reporter: the government said it has no intention to reveal the truth about what happened in 1965. >> why should this class have passion because if it is we receive a pain back again and pain of so many people and don't want to see that so if we forget we forget and everybody

understand this is maybe the history of ownership. >> ♪ victims and survivors from 50 years ago will hold a so called people's tribunal next week in the netherlands to increase pressure on the indonesia government and so far it has reacted banning discussions and silencing victims once again. al jazeera, bali. still to come here on the al jazeera news hour an astronaut celebrates the station and questions about the long-term future. a female jockey wins the horse race for the first time on the 100-1 outsider. ♪

rural communities once the backbone of canada's agricultural section but many are struggling to survive as farming methods change and many move to the city and one is using green technology to attract new residents and stay alive. >> on land she bought for a dollar she built a house of clay, stone and straw. it draws its power from wind and sun. she raises vegetables and fish to eat and runs a business that grows plants without soil, hydroponics and she is trying to live and work sustainably. >> it's an eco village

attempting to be completely sustainable and it's perfect to do it because the rest here are tending to be off grid. >> reporter: this guy here dug his foundation with a pick axe and a shovel. he is mixing his concrete in a wheel barrow with a shovel. he is my hero. cofounder of eco village and his neighbor is hero and lived in a shipping container and his home also his business, a boarding school manages to be both comfortable and environmentally sustainable. >> this whole place exists because rural is dying and many communities around here are looking for ways to attract people into them, the small towns are dying and the big cities are getting bigger. >> warm in winter and cool in summer is what they used to do more than 100 years ago and european settlers when they first came here but the eco village they want to use what means they want to to get people back in the countryside.

this is an all too common site here and once farm families drove on the streets and merchants and teachers and government workers were here and farming changed and people moved away and schools closed down and then entire villages. >> more agricultural and more chemicals, more pesticides and no productive tiff and what comes from agricultural. >> reporter: this is growing and not just in the eco village in the highway in the maintain people are also buying houses and to brent krooger the reason for the success is obvious. >> it's more than what you built and it becomes the food you eat and travel you do and becomes all of these things which have part of the 100% and that is what brought us out here. >> reporter: all around the

prairie landscape where much of the world's food is grown but by fewer and fewer people and coaxing them to live and return here is a challenge but one they are meeting in this community at least, daniel lack, craig. let's get all the sport near, here is sanaa. >> thank you very much july and german police raided the headquarters of the country futbol association in frankfort and looking at tax evasion following a payment made by germany 2006 world cup bidding team to fifa. last month back in power a world cup winner and coach and player accepted responsibility for agreeing to the $7 million payment and admits it was a mistake but he and his futbol association deny the money was a bride and instead say the cash was handed over to fifa to secure additional funding for the tournament. now let's bring our correspondent lee weldings in london, lee, what can you tell us more about this and also how

serious is this for the reputation of german futbol? >> well, this is being described as a serious case of tax evasion by the authorities, by the prosecutors in frankfort that have raided the headquarters of the german association and raided the homes of the president of the german futbol association and the former president and those two don't get along at all but that is the least of the problems for the association at the moment because they have to answer serious questions about what happened in 2006, of course as you mentioned the allegations came from the german publication who were looking into whether a slush, fund was set up involving the added company and the world cup captain who has been a big figure in administration and the question is did they really set that up to try and actually win votes from asia to be awarded in

2006 world cup and it was a big success but now of course the spotlight is on with corruption involved and that is a very big deal for the german futbol association and i have to say the president has said the awarding of the 2006 worldwas completely legal and there were no slush, funds and vote buying. >> how extensive fifa's global investigation is? >> there has been such an extraordinary spotlight on 2018 the russian world cup to come in 20 # 2 in -- 2022 in qatar and the world cups and half of them alleged to have been corrupt so the focus is on the tournaments that have not happened yet but looking back on other tournaments they are linked-in together because 2010 in south africa allegations with sepp

blader himself and spotlight of 2006 and the common theme is fifa and that corpsingization is in complete chaos. >> lee weldings live from london and thank you very much for that. lebron james hit another career milestone and becoming the youngest player to reach 25,000 career points and lebron scored 22 points for the cleveland cavaliers over the 76ers and 20 players in the history of the game have scored 25,000 points and he is a year younger than previous record holder kobe bryant. >> that is pretty cool and i have not had an opportunity to categorize the list of things i have done but to be able to do it in winning fashion number one and get with this group of guys, doing it in a building that, you know, loves the game of

basketball and obviously they know and respect the game of basketball and to get a standing ovation and reaching their milestone was very special. >> reporter: duncan broke a record and san antonio spurs scored 16 points and a record 954 victory and one team passing the mark set by hall of famer. for the first time ever female jockey has won the world's richest horse race the melbourne cup and michelle road prince of panzance to victory with a race of $4.5 million in prison money up for grabs and we have more. >> reporter: this was the moment michelle paine became the first female jockey in 155 years to win australia's horse race. >> i laid in bed last night and

had a dream about it. unbelievable. it's a dream come true. this horse is awesome. >> reporter: the horse prince started the day at 1 # 0-1 outsider of the melbourne cup. paine was the only female rider in the 24 strong fields and only the fifth ever to compete in the race that stopped the nation. the horse trained in mel burn by darren has battled six injuries throughout its career. >> coming down the outside and for michelle paine. >> reporter: and the six-year-old still held off max dynamate and kriterion to win the two-mile race. >> incredible moment indeed,

ththe famous racing family. >> it will help the jockeys we sort of don't get enough and hopefully this will help. >> reporter: in years to come i think this story will be one that is at the top of the list, prince and six owners originally paid around $21,000 u.s. dollars for the horse, now they take home $2.5 million in prize money and with michelle paine as their jockey a slice of history. richard par, al jazeera. looking to build a decisive second innings league on day three of of the test match with england and 300 charger and put them 72 runs ahad and pakistan is 58 and pakistan and are 1-0 up in this three-test series. and in the next news hour we will be speaking live with indian cricket legend in new york ahead of the new cricket

all-star series that starts this week, we will be talking to him at 1345 gmt and that sit for me. >> brilliant. >> thank you sanaa. now in orbit high above the earth astronauts celebrating 15 years at the international space station and since the first crew moved in 220 people lived there and there are questions now about its future and rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: 400 kilometers above the earth they spent a seven hour space walk doing maintenance and repairs, it's a constant task for the six-member international crew to keep the international space station in working order in the harsh environment of outer space. mission commander scott kellie completed seven months on the station, a record for a u.s. astronaut. >> obviously as things age over time we will have more

maintenance requirements but the good news is we plan for that and a lot of spare parts and spare parts outside and have plans for changing those things and you know keeping this space station flying a long time into the future. >> reporter: as a floating space laboratory the iss has been the scene of thousands of successful experiments in the unique conditions of micro gravity and just how long the iss will remain in orbit is a political and economic question. the iss is a joint project of the u.s., russia, japan and the european union, funding for the effort while stable is not growing and political friction between the u.s. and russia over ukraine briefly caused russia to suggest that u.s. astronauts could not fly on the rockets the only way to get to the iss and i

has been smoothed over and russia will continue to participate for now but scientists says money spent on the iss might be better dedicated to a voyage to mars. >> future of the iss is pretty certain over the next decade but once you get beyond 2024 then it become very uncertain. at some point one would have to transition resources to really focus on going beyond the or bin to orbiting mary's with humans or whatever the next step is here. >> reporter: perhaps the biggest accomplishment may have made is to provide a wealth of knowledge about how the human body holds up during stints and it is successful for a trip to mars or beyond, rob reynolds, california. more news on al jazeera straight after the break and for now for all the news hour team here, good-bye. ♪

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