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declared ebola free. i'm ronald live in doha with all the sport including rossi world championship hopes bit the dust and qualifying for the season ending grand prix coming up. ♪ egypt has confirmed there was a loud noise heard in the last second of the cockpit recording recovering from last week's plane crash, the man leading investigation says all possibilities considered as to what caused the plane to plumb mitt for more than 33,000 feet and all 224 passengers and crew were killed and metro flight 9268 crashed in the sinai peninsula and al jazeera's paul brennan reports. >> reporter: it's been seven days since metro jet 9268 fell out of the sky taking 224 people to their deaths and flowers were laid on saturday at the crash site in the desert. after a week of leaks and rumors

and speculation finally an official statement from the egyptian crash investigators. >> over a wide area and more than 13 kilometers in length which is consistent with an in-flight break up. some parts of the wreckage are missing and it is hoped to locate them in the coming days. >> reporter: the lead investigator confirmed that metro jet 9268 was 23 minutes and 14 seconds into the journey and it was still climbing and traveling at 281 knots, the order pilot had been engaged, everything seemed normal and then catastrophe on the cvr the cockpit voice recorder. >> a noise was heard in the last seconds of the cvr recording.

a spectral analysis will be carried out by specialized labs in order to identify the nature of this noise. >> reporter: a team of 47 investigators from five countries are working on the various aspects of the inquiry, additional group of air bus advisors brings total to 58 people and no mention if devertebrae had been tested for trace residue of explosives and no indication of long it will take to analyze the noise before the plane broke up and the ban to bring tourist out of egypt will continue. and at the airport the chaotic scenes of previous days have calmed down considerably, thousands of stranded tourists told to wait in the resort and not come to the airport until a plane becomes available for them. but not everyone is fleeing. the foreign minister of hungary has been in cairo ensuring egyptian counterpart that hungary will not make egypt off

limits. >> these decisions can have very serious consequences and currently what i see is that no one has provided us with any kind of evidence that would have made me to put a travel ban on egypt and until i'm not provided with any kind of such evidence i will not make that kind of decision, you can be sure about it. >> reporter: but there is much we cannot be sure of, questions still to be answered about what happened to this plane. missing wreckage must be found, complex analysis conducted and if it was a bomb those responsible must be identified. paul brennan, al jazeera. so what do we know about the investigation so far? french investigators looking through the flight recorders and a sudden explosion is reported and chatting normally and talking with air traffic control until the explosion and u.s. satellites picked up a flash from the plane pointing to a

possible explosion. reports from the u.s. suggests intelligence involving armed groups in sinai may support the theory and seems to suggest there is damage inside the aircraft possibly from an explosion and denying a passenger get missed a ground missile in august and pilot of a thompson airways plane carrying 189 passengers from london saw a missile heading to the aircraft and moves to the left to avoid it and the plane was never in dang danger and involved ground the ground fire and wasn't a targeted attack but part of exercises being conducted by the egyptian military in the area at the time. 3 million russians and million britains visited egypt last year and tourism makes up 15% of the country's economy, around 12% of egyptians work in the tourism

sector but recent years have been tough, 2010 egypt saw 14.7 million tourists and it had fallen to 9.9 million. tourism revenues was 12.8 billion in 2008, and 2015 is unlikely to exceed $7 billion. so what will this disaster mean for egypt's tourism industry and he is a former tourism consultant for the world bank, how big of an impact do you think it will have on the tourism industry? >> unfortunately for egypt it's going to have a dramatic impact. you just cited some numbers which give an indication of the economic impact but there is also the numbers that indicate how many people, how me egyptians will be out of work from the drop in tourism and

compacts the economic situation dependent on tourism and what it has done after major disasters and terror attacks, the public stays away and impacts from an economic standpoint is tremendous. >> we saw that the hungarians supportive and saying we are not going to suggest you can't go there until we have evidence of wrongdoing but it is a fairly strong country compared to who go to the region from russia or the u.k. >> correct, and a lot of the major tour operators that are european based who send these charter flights will think twice about sending clients to egypt and in many of the cases i can certainly speak for jordan and tunisia and egypt the situation on a 99% of the time is very safe and very enjoyable and there is no sense of any security issue but people's

perceptions change and a tour operator who has their on line and promotes a destination they get to the point and saying it's not worth it. one doesn't think of what the cost is now to repatriate the tourists is tremendous and make a tour operator who might be bringing a lot of people to egypt say it's not worth the chance, people's perceptions are what they are, we don't want to have to do the costly repatriation and costs associated with this and take it off our website for 2016-2017. >> you mentioned in the next couple of years. >> often thought of. >> sorry, i mean in terms of how long it lasts, in your experience in the past when resorts or areas have been hit by this kind of bad situation how long does it take them to recover from that? >> i would say assuming there are no incidents and that is the big assumption nowadays, with no incidents subsequent to now you're looking at a year and a

half by the time a country promotes again to the time a country and people feel comfortable about a country that the security mechanisms are enforced and before a tour operator says we are willing to go back there and we are know from other countries that often that the country where the tour operator is based will say we are putting egypt or tunisia or jordan on hold for a while until we know the security apparatus are in place. so we are really looking probably at a minimum of a year to a year and a half barring any further incidents and that is a big assumption nowadays. >> thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us. >> you're very welcome, thank you. coming up, this news hour flooding in iraq brings anger or corruption and lack of services. came offering aid but india prime minister grated with protests at a rally in kashmir.

and later in sport a warning that athletics corruption crisis could become the greatest sports scandal yet. ♪ a handshake 66 years in the making and they met for the first time ever and talks lasted less than an hour they are being seen as a symbolic show of reconciliation and we report from singapore where the historic meeting took place. >> reporter: security was tight in anticipation of leaders arrival and armed personal at the ready and government taking no chances for the leaders of china and taiwan and president xi jinping was the first to arrive and taiwan's leader. if anyone doubted the importance of the meeting between the two presidents and take a look at the press core that arrived over 500 of them across asia pacific and the rest of the world and looking at every handshake and

every smile and wondering what the impact of this meeting will be on both china and taiwan. these are officially recognizes the other as head of state, china sees taiwan as its rogue province of the chinese coast, taiwan regards itself as an independent country. by 1949 and after a bloody civil war the communist comrads declaring the people republic of beijing and his defeated nationalist created their own republic of china on the island of what is now taiwan. the talks were a surprise to many on the sidelines of a regional summit in beijing last november president xi jinping dismissed contact with taiwan and taiwan leaders said talks would only happen if they saw benefit and has much at stake. >> if he is able to successfully carry off this meeting it certainly would solidified his

legacy and restore his position historically and perhaps his post presidency political life if he is able to set himself up as a cross street broker. >> reporter: up hill test for xi jinping and party with opinion polls before elections due in the new year and president xi jinping talked about it started and was very positive. >> translator: 66 years of development of the cross straight relations indicates that no matter how much wind and rain both sides have been through, no matter how long we have been kept away from each other, no force can keep us apart. >> reporter: the meetings lasted less than an hour. this is what they had to say afterwards. >> translator: both sides should speak to one china policy but we have to recognize that although there is one china we agree to disagree on its definition. there are different interpretations. >> reporter: political commentators agree this was a purely symbolic meeting and while it was all smiles on saturday the up coming

presidential and general elections in taiwan could see the anti-china opposition taking power, then it would be back to the drawing board for both. robin with al jazeera, singapore. taiwan's main opposition leader says she is disappointed the meeting made no reference to preserving the island's democracy and freedom and protests in the capitol taipei and andrew thomas is there and sent this update. >> reporter: these protesters on the streets of taipei did not want this summit to go aheld and holding up posters like this a crossed out president xi jinping no to the talks it says. most of the people here want independence for taiwan official independence internationally recognized as such as its own country and think that president xi jinping and the other president ultimately long-term want reunification of china something they do not believe in. the dpp party, the opposition party of taiwan is likely to win election in january they are also after independence for

taiwan long-term but they are not part of this protest. they don't want to tell the people they wouldn't be able to keep lines of communication open with beijing if they were in power. asia program at the independent policy institution chatam house joins me now and thanks for coming in, how significant would you say this meeting is? >> symbolically it's important because it's the first ever meeting head of state level and although they called each other mr. rather than mr. president and so, yes, it's for china i think it's a big step forward in terms of political movement in the relationship. >> and in terms of what they achieved, this odd sort of thing where they talk about one china policy and both sort of say we agree it's one china policy but differ on the interpretation, will they continue with that sort of face-saving arrangement or something new that comes out after this? >> not much substance coming out of this. this so called 1992 consensus

the one china policy with differ erring interpretations allows both sides to come into the room to meet each other and come out of the room saying we have given nothing away. >> and what do they i mean do they want to have bigger trade or what is the kind of aim in terms of the whole sort of economic? >> for the chinese i think the long-term aim is to use trade and economic length, deepening of trade and economic links to make china indispensable to them and for the taiwanese are next door to china and need a strong economic relationship and in some ways very beneficial but they increasingly want to keep their own special nature or independence for want of a better word. >> we saw from the demonstrations in taipei how much is the government there saying what ordinary people want to see? >> well, public opinion and

public views of themselves in taiwan has been changing over the last 15 years. and more and more people see themselves as taiwanese, not chinese. and they want to stay taiwanese, not chinese. they acknowledge that there is a former sort of that they are ethnic chinese if you like and chinese cultural shared chinese culture but are not chinese but taiwanese and many feel that way and don't want to be led down to path to integration with china china. >> what about the military standoff in the past and how far are they from removing that side of things? >> the iron fist is still very much there. the chinese may show the velvet glove but the fact is that their military capabilities have been increasing substantially over the last years and have continued to do so so the military balance if you like is swinging against taiwan. >> okay thank you very much indeed for the situation, thank

you. >> thank you. somalia has been seriously wounded after a drive-by shooting and he was on his way to parliament in the country's capitol noi capitol mogadishu when he was sprayed with bullets and al-shabab is blamed and the parliament 14 mps have been killed in mogadishu. in burundi the deadline for controversial weapons amnesty due to expire in a few hours time at midnight and zizi has measures to stand part resistance to the reelection and opponents were told to give up weapons or face extraordinary police action and u.n. and international criminal court for the trigger will widespread violence and 200 people died and 200,000 fled the country since he decided to seek a third term sparking violence. let's get more on this now from the freelance journalist who we are not naming for security

reasons and give us an impression of what the atmosphere is there at the moment. >> there is a lot of stress in the city and people are fleeing the city. you know, the police is searching houses in the suburbs and all the suburbs that were known to be, you know, center for the opposition. so everybody is afraid, everybody is waiting and then seeing what is going to happen in the next couple of hours. >> and how successful if at all was the weapons amnesty? >> it's not successful at all. i mean, just until now no weapons have been surrendered and probably no weapons will be surrendered. it's a fact there is a lot of weapons in the suburbs but people are not surrendering. you know, this is a fact. >> what about politically do you think that there is a future for the opposition there? >> no, i mean there is several things happening.

i mean, the opposition is reorganizing abroad in rwanda and congo and here in inside, you know, inseed burundi there is only position in the suburbs here and probably also inside the country but nobody knows anything about that because it's very difficult to get access to these things. it is becoming more and more difficult to get access to the suburbs and police is there, military are there and very repressive so they don't allow people there with cameras and don't allow journalists and becoming more and more difficult. also today the foreign press has been banned from burundi. it has become impossible to get an accurate position of a foreign journalist so nobody can check what is going on. you know and burundi press went under ground and fled abroad is very, very difficult. >> and tell me the u.n. and we

were reporting earlier the u.n. and international criminal court says it may trigger widespread violence as they put it, how likely is that and could we end up with a situation with a civil war? >> i don't think there will be a civil war in the next couple hours but the possibility of violence is there. i mean the president was saying a couple days ago announced that, you know, if the opposition would not agree on delivering their arms, you know, there they would be put to work. what does that mean? nobody knows. if you say it in french it's very bad. it has a very bad sounding because it all remembers to what happened in the genocide in rwanda in 94 that is one thing and opposition to give back the weapons. just until now nobody gave or handed over weapons yet. i mean, it's a deadlock. >> okay, thank you very much

indeed, freelance journalist who we are not naming for security reasons and thank you very much indeed and it sounds like a difficult place to report from, thank you. sierra leone has beneficially declared free of ebola. and this is how people have been celebrating in the capitol free town, world health organization says there have been no new ebola cases in the past 42 cases and neighboring guinea is trying to rid itself of the dirty virus. sierra leone might be breathing an sigh of relief but ebola hit the country hard and hit more cases than liberia and guinea where the first out break was march 2014, more than 12000 children in sierra leone lost at least one adult who looked after them more than 3,000 lost both parents to the virus, in total 4,000 people have died and that is a big impact on village economies and in guinea and liberia across the border it's

still a threat and warning for sierra leone this is just the end of the current crisis. and the international medical response team in sierra leone and speaking she said saturday's announcement was a major milestone. >> we were unfortunate enough to be with our national team and our goal is centered listening to the declaration that was announced by w.h.o. and as the statement came out everyone jumped up and started cheering and laughing and clapping and also a lot of tears and really in remembrance of the countless numbers of people who lost their lives. as a direct and indirect result of the outbreak. the last several months there have been considerable effort by the international community and the government of sierra leone to strengthen the local healthcare system by training healthcare workers and protective equipment and to

rehabilitate healthcare facilities and have the staff members be able to diligently screen for any ebola like symptoms, and also doing considerable work on providing safe places for isolation and referral if necessary. also a lot of considerable effort out in the community to really provide key health promotion and disease promotion messages. saudi woman and three-month-old child killed after a shell fired from yemen crashed in their home on the saudi border with yemen. saudi-led coalition has been battling houthi rebels who took control of capitol sanaa as well as central and southern yemen. flash killed 18 people and rain struck the northern province and bad drainage left roads under water and prime minister held emergency meeting to discuss the situation. much of nearby alexandria was flooded last month after rain fell which is five times heavier than usual. heavy rain and flooding

disrupted life in baghdad and people are blaming corrupt politicians for the crumbling infrastructure to cope with it and we report. >> reporter: for the second time in a week iraqis have to wade through streets to get anywhere trapped in their homes after roads were swamped with flood water and sewage and doing all they can dealing with heavier than usual rains and the drainage systems fail to cope with downpour and they see it yet another example of crumbling infrastructure and services. >> translator: the rain is still flooding our homes and streets. we want a solution for our problems swiftly. our children have become ill to such hard circumstances. >> reporter: more than 50 people have been killed since rainstorms struck several areas last week. before the latest problem they protested against what they call inefficient government unable to

take care of them, for the protesters in central baghdad called on the government and corrupt officials. security forces fired warning shots when demonstrators tried to enter the green zone where the government and parliament convenes. >> translator: where is the old money? one thousand billion iraqi dinners. >> reporter: people also continued to protest against corruption and the lack of electricity and services. >> translator: the people of iraq are not treated fairly and seen nothing serious from all politicians and the economy and services deteriorating and the people are suffering and politicians don't respond to requests. >> reporter: al-badi have reforms to deal with corruption and incompetence but reforms have been blocked by parliament because he announced them without seeking approval from legislatures, that stalemate angered the muslim clecic and he has warned politicians against blocking anticorruption reforms.

>> translator: we have to affirm the need to protect the constitution and the law must not be used by the legislative or any authority to circumvent or delay the reform steps. >> reporter: activists are already calling for more agitation against corrupt government officials and public outrage and political promises seem far to material and improvements on the ground, al jazeera. activists say fighters from islamic state of iraq and levante released 37 syrian christians held hostage for months, group of mostly elderly people were among 200 people abducked in february from the town in the northeast of syria. and syrian human rights network says negotiations are continuing for the release of another 124 people still in captivity. at least 20 people have been killed in suspected russian air strikes on the rebel held town of douma according to monitors from the syrian observatory for human rights and show the

aftermath of the strikes which left six children dead, several areas in the countryside outside douma were also targeted and observatory says the death toll could still rise further. there has been violence on the streets of germany where thousands rallied against the policy on refugees. thousands of supporters of the alternative for germany movement were met by hundreds of counter protesters, at least ten prorefugee demonstrators were arrested after scuffles and faces a record influx of 1 million refugees this year. still to come this hour new hope in pakistan as a teenage boy is pulled out alive after 50 hours in the rubble of the collapsed factory. the world watches and the people of myanmar get ready to go to the polls for the first mentioningful election and andy murray achieved a rare

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hello again reminder of the top stories and firmed a loud noise was heard in the last second of cockpit recordings recovered from last week's plane crash, leaders of taiwan and china met for the first time in 60 years which is a symbolic show of reconciliation. just a few hours left before the deadline explores in a controversial arms amnesty in burundi and the president has warned opposements they will face extraordinary police action if they do not surrender their weapons. one man has died after police fought protesters in kashmir during a visit by india's prime minister and several people arrested during the protest rally and kashmir is a muslim majority state and india leader is a hindu nationalist and correspondent was at the protest. >> reporter: police confronted protesters before the morning rally. almost as soon as the black

flags and balloons appeared on this small neighborhood street police whooped in and contained the protesters even as some tried to run and they want self determination on whether india administered kashmir should remain with india, or pakistan or be independent. local politician and protest organizer was taken away by police along with some of his supporters. >> translator: al jazeera interviewed him the day before the visit and said the expected announcement of economic aid won't subdue the conflict in kashmir. >> this is subject to justice and justice leads to resolution of an issue. at the same time we will need to desolve the political dispute. >> reporter: at the rally the prime minister delivered as expected announcing more than 12 billion in funding for victims of last year's floods and economic development in the regi

region. >> translator: my dream is this money should be used to make a new kashmir and advance and progressive kashmir and do not consider the 12 million package, it's just the beginning. security had been stepped up all week with hundreds detained before the rally. parts remained empty in the afternoon. news of the promised aid, development and jobs by modi did not temper the frustrations felt by some locals as the security clamped down for days just for the rally. >> translator: they say democracy, democracy, what is this indian democracy, is this democracy that shut people in and bring people and police from other parts of the state? >> reporter: short and sporadic protests like this one continued through the afternoon leaving the promise of economic aid at odds with some people's political feelings. modi and state officials think the a package will boost support and confidence of people in the region but the fact so much security was needed for the

rally and to prevent protest shows that any announcement here is a tough sell. jamal with al jazeera in india administered kashmir. pakistan a teenager has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed factory after his parents mistakenly buried another body. 19-year-old mohamed spent 50 hours trapped under the debris of the bag factory and hope had been fainting of finding anyone alive and 45 people died since wednesday's disaster and officials say dozens more are still missing and kamal has more on the rescue mission. >> reporter: hundreds of relatives are still waiting for news of their loved ones who are still under the rubble but it is the recovery of 19-year-old mohamed 50 years after the collapse of the building that is now giving a new ray of hope that perhaps their relatives may

still be alive. the search and rescue operation is very slow because they don't want to move anything that might compromise anybody that maybe still alive inside that building. as you can see a narrow road is now separating the relatives from the rescue workers who are busy just across the road. you can see piles of rubble, cranes lifting up large pieces of the debris and the idea basically is to try and see if they can reach more survivors who may still be alive under the rubble. operator of a mine in brazil says a small earthquake may have caused two dams to burst and two people were killed, another 25 have been confirmed as missing. hope they will be find alive is now fading and we report from there. >> reporter: hard to believe

there used to be 200 homes in the area and now there are only ten after a mix of water, mud and mining, residue flooded the area. this is rodriguez, a small village in southeastern brazil, those who used to live here can hardly believe what happened. >> translator: i heard a strange noise and when i went out to see what it was it looked like a volcano. i don't know how i managed to escape and saw a lot of people running. >> translator: what passed through our house was worse than a tsunami and everyone was shouting, families shouting. >> reporter: hundreds of people have been rescued, many are now sheltering in emergency accommodation like this gym in the city here and orders were taken to hotels in the city, 12-year-old viktor can't put the horror of his experience into words, his family spent the night in the forest waiting to be rescued the next morning.

>> translator: i saw my grandson, my brother, i started screaming, it was really hard. i want to wake up from this nightmare. >> reporter: they are claiming that the flood has spread all along its path, however the company is denying there is any toxic contamination in the area. >> translator: it is important to note that the floods that burst out of the dam is basically iron ore spoils which is inert so there are no other consequences other than the physical damage it caused. >> reporter: the site is operated by mining, company san marco a joint venture between bra siz and australia php and the company says is a small earthquake may have caused the dams to burst, rescue teams are flying over the region but as every hour passes hopes that they will find any more survivors are fading.

al jazeera. more than 200 prisoners held under the terrorism act in shri lanka waiting for the government to decide the fate and has fighters as well as those detained without charge says it will now begin an indefinite hunger strike and we report. >> reporter: he is looking forward to her husband coming home. eight years of waiting for him to be released from prison has taken its toll. >> translator: everyone was scared to talk to me. i was rejected by society. people were scared to phone me or meet me or even help. as a result i face a lot of difficulties to make ends meet but i can't ask anyone, i just can't any more. >> reporter: now age 61 he was arrested for involvement in the attempted assassination in december 2006. it was six years before

indictments were filed. there are more than 250 such as him in prison who have either been convicted or their case is pending. most of them were arrested for district or indirect involvement in the war against the sri lanka government. and representatives say the basis of their detention is flawed. >> translator: it's with courage and conviction and the government must realize that these prisons are being held under laws which the government said are obnoxious and the government says they will repeal and they created new laws, how can the government testify, keeping the people in custody under those laws. >> reporter: inmate whose have been in prison for 8-18 years say they want a long-term solution. a blanket release of all prisoners and detainees held under the prevention of terrorism act is not an easy task, the government must

navigate through cases that dragged on for years and deal with laws that do not allow bail. prisoners who al jazeera contacted said they had been tricked by politicians and the government who made them end their earlier hunger strung with promises of solutions. steps so far are unacceptable and they will begin an indefinite hunger strike on sunday. majority of them voted for sri lanka's new government which promised a new approach to reconciliation but the government has to balance this approach with the sensitivities of the majority. >> the government has to take the population with it. the government has to keep the confidence of the majority, even while it takes the necessary good will measures and accommodations to the people. >> reporter: burundi and details don't matter, she just wants her husband home.

al jazeera, columbo. myanmar held rallies before sunday and many hope it will reintroduce full democracy after decades of military rule and opposition says they are stacking the deck in their favor and scott has more from there. >> reporter: with the election posters down and campaigning coming to a halt myanmar is now just hours away from heading to the polls, historic vote the whole world is watching. over the past two months most of the cities and towns have seen extensive campaigning. something that 50 million people here have not witnessed in a quarter of a century. a general election with all political parties running. especially the national league for democracy the party of laurete and nld is the frontrunner in sunday's polling and the party boycotted the 2010 election a year before the transformation to the current

somewhat civilian government. but she did participate in polling five years ago as a founding member of the democracy party and just one participating in elections and her father was the first and last democratically elected prime minister and he was removed by military coup in 1962. >> nearly 50 years we were under the military rule so now you know not within five years and within five months we do have changes. lots of changes we wanted to see. but as for my father he was a seasoned politician so he might not have this kind of, you know, frustration. >> reporter: she feels the nation needs to channel some of her father's patience. as the ruling party wraps up its campaigning, this is their last rally some feel that despite predictions of a big win for the opposition and for her this is

just part of the process to a full democracy, that destination is still far away. and they also think this election is neither free nor fair. >> this is a very important step on the road to democracy for man mar but it is only a small first step even if opposition parties were to win 100% of the seats elected that are available to them the military has a constitution in place that is stacked in their favor. >> reporter: and that includes borrowing her from becoming president and giving the military the power to appoint 25% of the parliament. with so many factors and possibilities at play and in uncharted territory exact predictions of myanmar's future is probably as accurate as the fortune tellers here and scott for al jazeera. 39 people have died after a

nightclub fire in romaine a week ago. protests continuing in bucarest as they end the corruption for the disaster and blamed them for the fire and resignation of the country's prime sterwho has not yet been replaced. joined a march through madrid to demand government action over domestic violence and joined the march organized by feminist groups across the country and 41 women have been killed so far this year by partners or ex partners according to government figures and more than 800 since 2003. protesters called for better help for victims of domestic violence. >> translator: we think it's important to be here today because the fight against sexist violence needs to be a national priority and we kal on the call on the government and the next government after december election to act so they stop

killing us. still ahead making a scientific leap to save the frogs, why these creatures are disappearing at a rapid rate and in sport chelsea minus their ban manager are trying to turn their season around, the latest from the game at stoke city coming up, next. ♪

♪ hello again disappearing at an unprecedented rate around the world and scientists say it's due to a fungus spreading fast

and a push to see their long-term survival in panama and david mercer went there to find out more. >> reporter: inside this laboratory an hour outside panama city scientists are working over time for investigator roberto the motivation is clear, a chance to save frogs from disease and the scientists' work is vital. >> translator: we are in a race against time because the fungus appears to be spreading eastward across panama and we have to rescue individual frogs before the fungus gets to them and then use those frogs to establish healthy populations. >> reporter: this new state of the art lab is allowing researchers to look at ways to protect amphibians from the fungus and get them back into the wild. about a third of the world's are

looking at extension and a third has been wiped out and scientists say programs like this are essential to their survival. a lab in central america brought new challenges. without stores to buy food for the frogs researchers have to raise the insects themselves. maintaining precise temperatures and humidity is essential giving amphibi amphibians the nutrients they need to thrive. >> translator: female frogs need to have lots of fat in their diet because when they are mating they hardly eat. we need to make sure they are well fed in preparation for the mating embrace which can last from a few days to a month. >> reporter: the lab is home to three species of endangered frogs. more than 300 individuals are separated according to species and gender. little by little staffer increasing the population through selective mating, key to the frogs long-term survival.

>> translator: studies tell us that with 40 individuals, 20 males and 20 females we guaranty that the genetic environment won't be effected in 25-50 years time. this will be important in the future when these animals repopulate in areas where frogs have disappeared. >> reporter: searching for clues that will help fight the killer fungus while bringing threatened species back from the brink, part of a global effort to save frogs before it's too late. david mercer, al jazeera, panama. time for sport now. >> thank you very much, we are going to start with football and chelsea are in action and morino for the game the chelsea bus serving one-match stadium ban following his out burst to the refugee during the loss last month and goalless at half time and the second half got underway 15 minutes ago and i can say they have taken the league and

scoring on 53 minutes and chelsea 15th at the table at the moment. early games and new castle move out of the allegations and lester city and 2-1 tying them with manchester city and 25 points and manchester united are fourth, manchester united are fourth after their victory against west. >> i'm very happy manager. i think we have won a difficult game, last year we lose against this opponent, probably because of death and now we have won so we have improved again. >> reporter: to the asia club season and champions league and lee the first leg of his contest between lee of the united arab emirates and ever grand producing plenty of chances but no goals and led by brasilia

scalari and beaten in competition since may and hoping to add to their 2013 title, the second leg takes place on november 21st. lorenzo will start from poll position for the motor gp position on sunday, the man is behind rossi and he was fastest during qualifying on saturday setting a new lap record at the circuit rossi was due to start the race from last place on grid after being punished for kicking the current champion in the previous race in malaysia and in the 8th top level world title and he was only 12th fastest in qualifying. >> i think my best lap in all my life. i couldn't believe when i saw it i couldn't believe it. the previous lap i made i pushed and the one i did 70.9 in the second tryout i improved one

second. >> number through murray in the paris masters 6-4-6-3 for 68th win of the season and will play the world number one and yanukovich in sunday's final after he won. corruption crisis engolfing international athletics is deposition is deepening and includes the son of former iaaf president who is accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for covering up doping offenses and arrested by french authorities on sunday and accused of leading a system of corruption. the they cancelled the award ceremony for the end of the month. charged four men and legal advisor and antidoping chief and have charged four men including the former presidents of the

russian athletics federation and their coaching head of long distance walkers and runners and investigation by the world antidoping agency that began last december, their report will be handed down in geneva on monday and one coauthor warned that the findings will be damming and richard said she could have a bunch of old men who put a lot of extra money in their pocket through extortion and bribes and also caused significant changes for actual results and final standings in competition and this is different from fifa or roc scandal with result to salt lake city. highlighted a dominate day for australia and new zealand and scored the first for the ozzies and 237 run opening partnership with david warner, also scored 116 warner becoming just the third batsman to post hundreds of the test match on three

separate occasions and australia leading by 503 runs in the second inning. meanwhile india beat oust africa by 108 runs and took six wick ets on day three for 200 in india but visitors look at that 109 all out for the first test match. golf two time major winner jordan spieth is going in the final round of wgc champions in shanghai and he is 13 under par after a round of 63 on saturday, the day's play was delayed by over an hour because of rain. and that meant that later kevin kissner had to finish in near dark conditions and failed to make the putt around 70 and top of the leaderboard going to sunday's final day. opportunities for young sportsmen and women in gaza may be few and far between but those with a disability and

palestinian territory is using an experimental program to teach a group of blind boys karate and here is the story of a blind junior karate competitor who dreams of one day representing his country. >> translator: my name is guitar and i'm 15 years old and live in gaza city and i was born blind and so was my brother and sister. being blind useed to make me sad but i got used to it and adopted my life so i can cope. in the beginning i used to spend most of my time doing nothing. but i decided to challenge my handicap and set goals in my life, i went to school and started studying and want to continue my school with a university degree to find a job one day. our school is a special blind school. it is helping us a lot. here we are able to study and continue our lives as normal. one day i heard about a special karate training program and this training program will help me defend myself so i joined it.

but first i was shocked and didn't really understand how i can practice karate when i can't see. when i started training i felt i can make it and i proceeded. our instructor faced problems in the beginning but he decided to take on the challenge with us and there were nine blind boys and all help each other as if we are brothers. the coach adopted a special way of training that depends on healing, touching and sensory perception and the sensory perception allows you to know the full directions and to decide when and where to move when needed. then the instructor played an important role in training us and became like a father, brother and friend, we thank him a lot for what he did for us. karate has given me confidence and stronger and more determined and street harassments i feel like i can face the world now and want to can't with my karate until i get a black belt and hope is the officials here will

help us develop so we can represent palestine and international competitions. it's been 18 years since argentina maradona retired from professional football but promise of seeing him play can still draw a huge crowd as you are about to see, this was in morocco packed full of fans and the world cup winner was alongside other stars including georgia and mohamed and all playing in an exhibition match and not many challenges flying but you can still prove he can find the back of the net. still a star, in morocco and all your sport for now and hand you back to london. thank you very much indeed. you can keep up to date any time at our website and the address for that is al jazeera.com. that is it for me lauren taylor for the news hour and we will be here in a minute for a round up of the news thanks for watching and good-bye for now.

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