♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to another news hour from al jazeera in doha, i'm adrian and our top stories, coming home, lebanon exchanges prisoners with syrian rebels. prove it, turkey challenges russia over claims it shot down a russian jet to protect oil trade with i.s.i.l. beijing and deli choke under a thick blanket of smog, we will tell you why. a democratic triumph in

bakino-faso as a new president is elected. lebanon exchanged rebels in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the lebanon army received a body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. >> translator: it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. we are here in al-nusra controlled territory and witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers and it was mediated by qatar and efforts by el nusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. this is a convoy of lebanese

security forces for exchange coming from i.s.i.l. >> for the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. >> reporter: this is what we can describe, god blessed us when we were released and would like to thank al-nusra. >> thank you for brokering the deal and thank you el nusra a lot and also thank the lebanese government. >> translator: i'm a prisoner here and we thank god for being released and we thank everybody due to our release so we can return back to our homes. >> reporter: one of the prisoners released by lebanon was the former wife of the i.s.i.l. leader and al jazeera spoke to her a short while ago. >> translator: they said i am the wife of bagdadi and i'm divorced seven years and he wasn't at that time, i want to

go to turkey and will go once i get my passport issued and i will be in beirut and then i will go. >> let's go to al jazeera correspondent here with me in the studio and put it in a wider context here and you have a rebel group which declared affiliation to al-qaeda and negotiated this prisoner swap, what are we to make of it? >> a number of things adrian and el nusra and al-qaeda affiliate and a group with bashar al-assad and a big win and puts them on the map not only from diplomatic but from a political perspective and shows they are a group they can do business with and are doing business with and not only is lebanon doing business with them and qatar has other powers as well and another big winner is qatar as a mediating force and showing that maybe syria doesn't have to be solved purely

by weapons and barrel bombs and so forth and through mediation although it's a small incident and opens for other things and the big winners ask lebanon army with a year and a bit since they were taken captive and this is in syria as well as lebanon. >> what does that mean for lebanon in particular the fact it was able to negotiate the release of these soldiers? >> ever since they were taken captive in august 2014 the lebanese state has come under a lot of pressure by all sides, all the different sections of society in lebanon to get these soldiers and police officers released. in fact, if we remember the anti-government protest which took place just a few months ago the garbage protest when they would crack down with protesters why don't you go and free colleagues rather than focus on

us and it's going to be very important but doesn't mean the situation has been solved because where the fighting took place and soldiers were taken captive is still a marginalized place and mainly sunni surrounded by sunni village with no state infrastructure or investment put into it and it's a big win for the lebanese government they can take a deep breath now and it succeeded in doing something and the task of trying to win over that area. >> jamal thanks indeed. turk turkey angerly rejected that it shot down a russian jet to protect oil trade with i.s.i.l. and called on russia to reestablish communications instead of making accusations that he said were baseless. let's go live to istanbul and bernard smith is there and what else did the prime minister have to say, bernard? >> reporter: well, adrian and

while russia seems to be cranking up rhetoric turkey is trying to it seems dial it down a bit and rebuild and reestablish relationships with the russia it wants to reenforcing a call he made while he was in paris to reestablish military lines of communications with russia to avoid this happening again and says let's open diplomatic channels to reestablish relations. also turkey's president erdogan had an hour long meeting this morning with barack obama and in that meeting, excuse me, obama said he supported turkey's right to defend itself and said in the meeting he and erdogan discussed with turkey how turkey and russia could work together he said to deescalate tensions but at the moment what russia is asking for is apology from turkey and we know turkey is not going to apologize for shooting down the russian jet and said it was doing its job and not going

to apologize for doing its job and russia said it's going to go ahead with sanctions in retaliation against turkey. >> highly unlikely russia will back down and do you think turkey ultimately will be forced to do so? >> well, i think the statements that have been coming out of the presence from erdogan have been very strongly defended of turkey actions and no apology and difficult to see why turkey would back down on that and doesn't want of course the economic sanctions to be imposed on it and we understand there is about 90,000 workers in russia and turkish workers and work permit not renewed by the end of the year and may have to come back to turkey and russian holidays a drop in the number of russian holidays because of the

fall in the value of the rubel and it will have a severe impact of tourists coming to turkey so turkey wants to avoid that thought of confrontation but no indication it's going to be forthcoming with a sort of apology that vladimir putin is asking for. >> live from istanbul. it's the second day of u.n. climate change conference in paris, france's paris francois hollande was at tuesday's events with world leaders on what solutions africa can help offer to help solve climate stage and people in beijing have been told to stay in doors for the first time in nearly two years the second highest orange alert has been issued over air quality and adrian brown reports from beijing. >> reporter: well, imagine waking up to this, this is the fourth straight day of hazardous pollution levels here in the chinese capitol. mid morning on tuesday the air

quality index was more than 540 but on monday evening in the south of beijing the air quality index as measured by one of the government's own monitoring station reached nearly 1,000, that is how serious it was on monday evening. now the government of course has pledged that by 2030 its emissions of greenhouse gasses will have peaked but that still means we will have many more days like this or perhaps even worse. at the meantime the government is ordering factory some 2000 to slow their output or to close and schools are not closed but many parents are choosing to keep their children at home because of this and who can blame them. >> thick smog hanging over new deli and we are in the indian capitol. >> reporter: this area in the east of new deli is officially according to deli solution control committee the most air

polluted part of the city. levels today on tuesday have been recorded at eight times the permissible limit. now let's put these figures in context, anything that is three times the permissible limit is noted as hazardous by this committee which means there could be serious health side effects, anything more than that suggests there are many millions of lives at risk but despite the high warnings of the kind that beijing are seeing and there is a lot there at the moment and despite this and warnings from the world health organization no formal protest exists to actually alert of the impending dangers of being outdoors and what it can have on their health and livelihoods and this may look like a gray winter's day in this part of the world what you are actually seeing out here is air pollution and that is a reality that residents across new deli are noticing more than

ever before and becoming more concerned about as the conditions continue to worsen. >> why is this happening? the weather must have something to do with it one would think and let's ask a metrologist and richard is here with us and let's start with beijing first of all, you can see it in the air. i mean terrible conditions, why is it so bad in beijing? >> a couple of factors, three factors, first of all beijing is surrounded by the mountains to the north in particular. when you have the flow coming in from the southeast or the east you're bringing in a lot of really polluted air. you have all the big factories and many of them are still burning dirty brown coal late night which really produces a lot of c 02 so vast amount of emissions coming in and area of high pressure puts a lid on the whole thing and cooking pollutants over quite a long time until something happens to have it move away. >> no where to go. >> no where to go and it's

trapped and can persist day and day and gets worst. >> looking at new deli, the air quality didn't seem to be as bad as it was looking at adrian in beijing. >> looking at the aviation forecast in northern india and pakistan and poor visibility but nothing really, really bad. and what often starts off the smog this time of year is the snubbel burning because the combine harvesters used a foot of stubbel and the easy way to get rid of it is not to plow it in but to burn it off and that tends to start it off and you have a plain surrounded by mountains and then it causes smog to form at this time of year in particular. >> i thought smog was something we consigned to history and one things of the battle days in london for example with a thick

smog. >> pea soup. >> pea soupers, why doesn't london get smog any more and yet beijing and new deli do? >> clean air act of 56 and years where people were just burning coal and factories are burning coal and we have incredibility poor and less than a meter or so and once they stopped that by introducing smokeless zones and not burning dirty fuel the visibility improved dramatically across parts of the world and that is before we can achieve objectives. >> you will be back with the forecast in a minute and richard and still to come here on the news hour we will take a look at how bad traffic is holding back business in ghanna. plus we have the story of a malaysia mom who offers a loving and secure home for children with hiv. later in sport the nba biggest

star bids to keep his team's unbeaten start to the season intact. ♪ china's president xi jinping is in zimbabwe going to africa and will pledge investment to the cash-strapped country but as we report more loans could lead to more debt. >> reporter: most products sold in this mall are made in china and he just returned from there and goes for supplies. >> four or five months and i take my stuff and almost for two months i take my stuff and it's very good. things are very good. >> reporter: zimbabwe sectors

operate less than half capacity and many goods sold here come from china and they blame western sanctions for the weak industrial and manufacturing sectors which were imposed several years ago with human rights and allegations the government denies. china is often criticized for not speeging out against trading partners and officials want to barrow money for hospitals, schools and roads but zimbabwe economy is struggling and wonder how they plan to pay china. paying back could be difficult. >> country will pay from increased ability to produce and increased ability to export and hopefully rising prices on the world markets. now all of those are difficult to imagine happening and very difficult to achieve. >> reporter: in the past zimbabwe is accused of not paying back some of its loans but chew that is still investing in electricity and construction

and also building and donating medical equipment for poorly resourced public hospitals. china's loans are linked to commodity arrangements and have plenty of raw materials and now that prices have fallen new terms have to be agreed on how to pay back the loans and some fear it could lead to zimbabwe going deeper in debt, al jazeera. kenya capitol one person has died after a botched security drill at a university, students at strat more university were not told and panicked fearing it was a genuine terrorist attack and a stampede ensued and hundreds of students made for the exit. they elected a first president and first civilian leader in 50 years and will replace blaise who was toppled in an uprising after 27 years in office and al

jazeera has the latest from the c capitol. >> reporter: former prime minister was proclaimed the winner. he will become the country's first civilian leader in almost five decades. in his victory speech he promised to follow through on his campaign promises. >> translator: we owe to those who sacrificed their lives for our country the restoration of our constitution an order, peaceful governance that strengthens democracy and national promise. >> reporter: the end of political turmoil in their country. it's the hope of many here that the election of a new president will usher in a new era of fiscal democracy. and also the president of the national assembly and the president of blaise and split

with him last year and joined a mission for progress and not everybody is happy with his victory. >> translator: he was not my candidate and never will be. i don't see anything difference between him. he worked with him of 25 of 27 years he was in power. >> reporter: elections bring to an end transitional administration when blaise was on the throne in a popular uprising last year and has power by force and won four elections, all of which were participated and toppled by protests when he tried to change the constitution to extend his rule even further. >> no politician, no political party will come and impose an idea or practice of government, this is a very good thing. this is the biggest achievement since the resurrection of

october 2014. ♪ comfortable and months of turmoil are behind them and people of bukino-fosa continue to celebrate the country's new status. we go to cynthia who is a west africa analyst at international crisis group and joins us now live from the capitol of sinagal and he is the former prime minister but what else do we know about this president, what is his backgroun background? >> basically he is a pure product of the regime and was prime minister and speaker of the national assembly, he was also the leader of the former ruling party cdp so he was very much at the heart of the regime by the president blaise and basically his background and he

is kind of a newcomer in the opposition because he defected from the ruling party in january 2014 and created his party the npp so basically he is in the 11th hour opponent to blaise. >> he deflected from the former ruling party, what were the former, the features of that former system of government that created the discontent that led to the rising on the streets and why is he going to be any different to his predecessor? >> well, the question is he actually going to be any different and that remains to be seen and the former regime was very much based on the domination of one party and one political clin of the economic and political lives and that is why it created discontent and when he wanted to extent his

power the people were not willing to perpetuate that system forever and there was a real reason for change and now will he be able to meet these expectations for change to fulfill those aspiration and that remains to be seen and he is a product of the former regime and he is a risk he will return to old practices and we have already seen during his campaign there were a lot of allegations that his party was distributing money to supporters to bring them to campaign rallies so that is a sign that there might be the temptation to recreate the domination of one party over political live and return to old practices of nepitism is there. >> but this was a free and fair election, wasn't it, it was very well organized just reflect on the significance of that for us and whether people if they

suspect that it's business as usual whether they will take to the streets again. >> yeah, that is a risk. cheerily as you said the election was free and fair and well organized. there were a few minor low logistical issues but it was professional and did a good job organizing the election and now the question and what is sure is the people are mobilized and were mobilized and remain mobilized so they will not let anyone steal their freedom again or their victory over the former regime so what is sure is that if there is a return to old practices and you know if again the new authorities try to dominate political life i'm sure that you can expect people to take to the streets again. >> cynthia good to talk to you, many thanks indeed. let's bring back and talk about

more weather and stormy weather in europe. >> in the next few days we will talk about poor visibility in parts of europe as the weather begins to settle down and the image behind me with an area of cloud and what the british and irish were calling storm quota and the storms are giving different names in the world and steer clear of it and depression moving through and giving nasty conditions and germany large amounts of rain in higher elevations and snowfall over the last 24 hours and meanwhile across the more northern parts and particularly active and we had gusts of wind in access of 160 miles per hour and this is the extent of the wind damage and here from finland some very violent seas have been formed as a result of extremely strong winds. as we look at the forecast through the remainder of tuesday and you can see it's pretty cold and cold enough for some snow

but as we head on through into wednesday we will find this particular frontal system and for parts of norway and see heavy rain turn to snow readily up over the mountains, elsewhere we are hanging on to snow across parts of russia and you can see temperatures stuck at zero for moscow and i suspect in the coming days as the weather quiets down it may turn somewhat misty adrian. >> world aids day today and stigma surrounding the condition exists in many communities around the world and malaysia hiv positive orphans are overlooked for adoption and one woman is hoping to change attitudes there. >> reporter: appears to be just like any normal 13-year-old boy playing with his brothers and sister and getting into all sorts of mischief. but for all five of his adopted siblings is they contracted hiv

before they were born and she has been looking after hiv children since 1991 and two of his siblings were abandon on her doorstep as babies and others given up by parents who didn't want the responsibility of a sick child and they help immediately and bringing the community on board took more type, nearly a decade. >> it was a face-to-face then i have to explain to them the reason why we have to take care of the children so i hope whatever i have explained can educate them. >> reporter: there are few willing to care for children with hiv and she gives them hope of a brighter future. >> translator: when i leave school i would like to be a mechanic and i really like fast cars. >> reporter: government says there are over 13,000 children in legal care homes but he was

adopted and taken in by a woman who is kind and selfless according to her community and yet these children were taken in as babies and it's far more difficult for others. the government has assembled a consulting and advisory with children and includes civil society and parents and they are aware more needs to be done for sick children. >> they are the children who are disabled, impaired, medically they are not well. the best interest of the child is paramount the to the council and we have lively good discussion and from there we will come up with policies, we will come up with plan of action, that is very focused on the types of children that i just mentioned. >> reporter: only adopted daughter is paralyzed and has cerebral palsy and four more that have hiv she has passion

for children and scarred through no fault of their own and she offers a future rather than a life in an institution and have a loving home and a person they call home, malaysia. >> hiv and aids and live from geneva where are we in the fight against hiv and aids? i know now that thanks to medical treatments people can live long and healthy lives despite a positive diagnosis but is the rate of infection falling? >> right, so we actually we are building on a positive trajectory in the resent years and recently we announced that more than 50 million people, in fact, 50.8 million people are now receiving life-saving treatment. in addition to that we have observed since the years

2000-35% reduction of new infections and in large part due to availability of treatment the mortality or people dying because of aids has also been reduced very dramatically by about 42% since the years 2004 when mortality rates were highest. >> what are the prospects there for ending the epidemic by the year 2030 part of the sustainable development goals and you have a very short window of opportunity to be able to do that, can it be done? >> right, so we definitely think that it can be done and saying so we are building on the successes of the resent past and we are also taking into account the fact that the currently available tools that they are sufficiently effective so that if we bring all of those tools together and we apply them in all the countries that need them

then we think that yes it is possible to end the aids epidemic by the year 2030 as you indicate, it will actually require a more intense effort over the next five years and we think there is a short window of opportunity of about five years through the year 2020 where indeed everything we have needs to be applied or we need to reach high coverage of treatment and need to meet more coverage of different prevention programs and that we think will allow us to end the aids epidemic. >> thinking peter back to our report a few minutes ago how do you end the stigma that surrounds hiv infection still in many parts of the world and in many societies? >> right, so sigma and discrimination have always surrounded the aids response and so the response needs to of

course address those elements that can be addressed directly by bio medical intervention such as treatment or such as circumstances as happens in parts of southern and eastern africa but of course in all programs whether it's in africa or elsewhere the stigma and the discrimination needs to be addressed and there is interesting developments that happen recently so several countries have tried to assess what the levels of stigma is on healthcare workers and on the base of that are instituting programs to reduce the stigma. >> thank you peter. still to come here on the news hour japanese ships leave port to resume phaling and -- whaling

and the deadly dam disaster and they are having a dramatic game here coming up, in about 20 minutes. ♪

♪ hello again with the news hour from al jazeera and lebanese army exchanged prisoners with al-nusra and 16 released in exchange for those with the lebanese government and the leader was among those freed.

russia's president vladimir putin says oil produced by i.s.i.l. is being smuggled into turkey on an industrial scale and believes turkey shot down a jet to protect smuggling routes and they say the accusations are baseless and burkina faso has a new prime minister chosen as the first new leader in 27 years in sunday election and served under blaise as the prime minister. david cameron will talk about air strikes in syria and leader of uk opposition party jeremy has offered free vote on the issue and we have more from barnabie phillips in london and the free vote by the opposition leader says that cameron is sure

to win, isn't he? >> it does look like that, yes, adrian and david cameron will have the separate of the vast majority, not all but the vast majority of his own party and he will then pick up a significant amount of support from the opposition party in spite of the wishes of jeremy korbin as you were saying and opposition party in disarray over this question of syria, jeremy korbin believes that british aircraft should not be involved but arguments do not carry weight win his shadow cabinet and have the story tomorrow in the british foreign government with hillary arguing that british aircraft should be involved with the french and americans and so on and the leader jeremy korbin saying britain should not be involved and looks like a defeat for jeremy korbin certainly. >> live in london and let's

bring in al jazeera's senior political analyst who is here with me in the studio so you have britain depending which way the vote goes but almost in the way david cameron and then the coalition of bombing i.s.i.l. in syria and russia is bombing i.s.i.l. and other targets it seems and has its own agenda there as has turkey and it's looking pretty messy. >> and france and so on and france supported by germany and germany is in suddenly, right, a long time since the second world war. clearly in the skies over syria are now owned divided by syrian territories on the other hand are still up for grabs i mean there is so much bombing and so much control over the skies of the country with russians now also positioning s 400 and means they can also shoot whatever

planes they deem they want to shoot whenever they want to shoot it but on the ground it's completely different and not going the way the skies are going and it's not clear to me yet that what is going on in the sky is determining what is going on on the ground despite everything that has been said and despite the thousands of weeks and months of bombings we are still in a situation where i.s.i.l. is growing or at least getting more recruits and we have just heard that i.s.i.l. is actual actual actually beseiging cert and the bombing is not taking care of the ideology either. >> but as far as all this bombing of syria is concerned there was a glimmer of hope today i suppose it was a glimmer of hope with the lebanese

government doing the prisoner swat with the al-nusra front rebels affiliated to al-qaeda, mediated by qatar and goes to prove in a very small way that some of syria's solutions can be solved by diplomacy. >> adrian that is not our agreement. i cannot agree with your optimistic anchor, this doesn't workout very well, certainly not in the line of question we need to do in syria. look i agree with you of course that there are these silver linings but they are silver, the clouds are dark over syria. >> okay. >> and the fact that the al-nusra might be able to release some people in favor of some families et cetera with hezbollah and other lebanese that just shows you how far, how bad the situation has gone, so much so you and i would sit here and consider that you know there is a silver lining there. the truth of the matter is this is the exception that confirms

the rule and the rule is that syria is in a mess. to share some of the optimism with you, the pessimism and optimism with you and depends what goes in saudi arabia next week and if it pulls them together consensually under one united front in vienna and russians sooner or later and assad is a man who could never govern syria and maybe we could see some things going towards a political solution that will on the one hand stabilize syria and on the other defeat i.s.i.l. >> see the political analyst and the u.s. marine found guilty of killing a woman in philippines after discovering she was transgender and joseph scott was convicted of homicide and sentenced up to 12 years in prison and he strangled jennifer lord in a hotel northwest of

manila last year and we have more now from manila. >> in the decision the trial court thought it would be a deterrent and warning to visiting servicemen they are not under crime under philippine law and watched as philippine have been critical of their own government which they accused giving preferential treatment to the united states and its servicemen, there are several hundred u.s. troops here at present and that number could increase if the supreme court decides on the legality of an expanded agreement that the philippine government wants to sign with the u.s. that would mean more servicemen coming in and out of the country and u.s. facilities being built within philippine military camps and many philippines are not happy about the u.s. armed presence in the country and basically want them out and see this as an example that at least philippine sovereignty has not been completely under minded. however department of justice has gone against a court ruling which has ordered the u.s.

marine to be brought to a national penitentiary institution here in manila and the department of justice has said he is to be held within the military camp still in u.s. custody pending his appeal and the final decision on that. >> brazil government launched legal action over a mining, disaster, in november they want them to pay minimum $5.2 billion to cleanup the toxic waste and daniel reports. >> reporter: environmental experts said it could take ten years to clear up the damage caused when the dam burst near an iron ore mine releasing waves of contaminated water and mud in the river and now it reached the sea and leaving in the wake homeless people and environmental damage and more than 20 dead or missing. this man is simply seeing what he can salvage from the

devastation. the united nations report released last week said mine waste containing toxic chemicals and metal covered 850 square kilometers and criticized the government and minors for what it calls a responsive action to the government and asked to pay a smaller fine and surprised by the new civil action since they have shown themselves to be open to dialog and said the contents released by the dam pose no risk to humans. brazil's attorney general's office says proceeds will contain the damage for the river basin and compensate those effected by the disaster and the two states hardest hit have joined the government's legal action. >> translator: our evaluation committee has determined that this is one thing and the other part is what happened along the

river after the accident. >> reporter: brazilian authorities say extent of the damage is still being assessed and may increase the amount they are claiming or launch a criminal case, hundreds of residents meanwhile assessing how to rebuild their lives. daniel with al jazeera. the island of puerto rico enduring a financial crisis that has driven tens of thousands of people to leave in search of johns jobs and security and a thousand a month are arriving in florida a state that is already home to a million puerto rico people and life in the sunshine state is proving equally hard as andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: this is not where the family thought they would end up living when they arrived in central florida, like thousands of others here they are crammed in a single hotel room living week to week and has been like this for several months and despite the hardships they are determined to make a life in the u.s.

>> we are going to be here and keep trying until the december and hopefully we can get something before december because it's going to be tough, five people, one bed and a crib. >> reporter: the story is a familiar one to these people helping families in the area for years and set up this cafe in a hotel to help feed new arrivals but the arrival for many is bleak. >> you think since it can't get any worse this has to be better and you come here with that in your mind it has to be better and you are just waiting for that moment where it's going to turn and it's going to be better but it actually just never happens. >> reporter: the numbers of puerto rico people leaving the island will grow and the great migration following the second world war but in florida there are concerns about homelessness and instability on newly arrived

children. >> imagine a child, a child wants to feel loved and feel they belong and if they are constantly in a new environment they are struggling with that. >> reporter: throughout this entire region hotels and motels are full of families waiting to start their new lives but the problem is these rooms are not cheap and means people cannot save up enough money to move out and the waiting list for government housing in the area is approaching two years and are offering workshops for families they say are ill prepared for the life in florida, despite the risks many people believe their future have a brighter future here than puerto rico, kissimmee, florida. whaling in antarctica ocean and they forced japan to stop killing whales two years ago or rather two years ago the international court of justice ruled the expeditions are

commercial hunt and not for research purposes as claimed by the japanese government and correspondent harry faucet has more from japan. >> reporter: two vessels left the southwest town earlier on tuesday and will meet up with two other vessels and the mother ship and a fishery agency patrol boat heading to the antarctica ocean from december and carry through until march and the mayor told the crew there was nothing happier than this day because it marked the whaling after last season which time they took no whales whatsoever because of the march 2014 ruling by the international court of justice ruling that japan's scientific whaling had no scientific basis whatsoever and no need to kill the whales to monitor their population there and eating habits and reproduction and japan said it wants to continue with the whaling and the scientific

research they call it is necessary and will continue it says to take a reduced number, about a third of what it used to take 333 whales every year between now and 2027 and the government says it does not agree at all with the concept of killing whales for research and it has been examining its legal options and as well as that the pressure groups sea ship says it too will be saling to the antarctica ocean for the tactics it used against the japanese whaling vessels in the past. saudi arabia where hundreds of women are running for election, it's the first time they have been allowed to campaign since the late king granted women the right to run for office and rob matheson reports. >> reporter: a first in saudi arabia's conservative history and she is one of about 900 women running for office, she and the male members of a campaign team are launching her

election website. >> translator: we have been waiting to be given this opportunity as ladies to participate in the political and social decision making in the country. since the door opened for us, i was one of the first female entrepreneurs actually able to participate in decision making. >> reporter: in 2011 the late king abdue la granted women a right to play a part in politics but women only allowed to run for municipal office and 2013 he said women should makeup 13% of council that advise the king but changes are minor at best and women face significant restrictions and discouraged from driving and have to get the approval of a male guardian to travel abroad or go to work or open a bank account. and she has to refocus her campaign. >> translator: i think there are limitations in being able to meet with the public so i decided to go to malls so that i

can meet with the community. this is what prompted me to focus on social media and my electoral campaign where everyone can communicate so i can get the largest number of voters. >> reporter: female voters say having women in office will make it easy to raise issues. >> translator: it was difficult in the past to communicate with men but with the presence of a woman now i can speak to her directly. >> reporter: it's a step towards greater freedoms for women in saudi arabia and critics say there is still a way to go, rob matheson, al jazeera. just ahead another day, another award for messi and joe will be here with all the details in the sport. ♪

hello again urban areas in africa are growing fast but in many cities the planning is lagging behind and lack of affordable housing says people have to commute from the outskirts of the city for it to work and that is the problem as we report. >> reporter: patrick leaves his house at 5:30 a.m. every morning for work. normally it's a 45 minute journey from where he lives to across city center. but during rush hour he has to allow up to three hours. >> everyday is frustrating and stressful.

i'm stuck in traffic knowing i should be in the office preparing for the day. >> reporter: patrick joins thousands of others on private mini buses and on overage he spends 30 hours a week commuting and at the newspaper where he works the boss says it's a problem for most of the staff. >> outside the city center about 70% of them live about ten kilometers away from where we work and obviously they get to work with traffic and that obviously has some impact on our productivity and it worries us. >> reporter: patrick says he cannot afford to live closer to work and would have to pay ten times more than what he pays now. across city center is developing fast and new luxury apartments are easy to find but too expensive for most and there is a severe shortage of affordable housing.

according to the city authorities a cross population is growing at a rate of 4.2% and the national average and experts say the right road and transport infrastructure is key to help the city develop in a positive way. a specialist argues that cities has too great of focus on the city center. >> i think cities need to unlock the inherent entrepreneurial skill of all of their citizens and looking at the approach and means look at the city and how can we have different centers of activity and different focuses so we can distribute the availability of jobs. the problem of having a centralized strategy is that it actually kills the overall system. >> for years officials have been promising new rapid bus routes across the city to ease congestion and patrick would

like an easier day and others caught in the same trap. time now in the news hour for sport and here is joe. >> thank you, golden state warriors extended the unbeaten record to the nba season to 19 games and mvp is on top form against the utah jazz and the over all winning streak is even longer as we explain. >> reporter: every team would like to end the golden state warriors unbeaten start and the opponent for a seven-game road trip but the warriors looked on during the game. >> there it is again. >> reporter: led 53-48 at the end of the first half, clay thompson stretched that lead out to 11 points early in the third quarter. he had 20 points for the night. but the jazz saved their best for the final period as they hit

the front. league mvp lifted his game. >> 33, good and we are tied. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: back and forth in the game would level the game with 51 seconds left on the clock and finished it finishing with a tally of 26 points. >> curie, 33 good! and he unties it. >> reporter: the result says the warriors unbeaten record to 23 games dating back to last season that is the third longest streak in nba history and need four more wins to equal the miami heat from the 2012 and 2013 seasons and 1971, 72 l.a. lakers hold the overall record with 33 straight wins. next up for golden state the

hornets on wednesday and goes on the line, al jazeera. family and friends of rugby great jonah gathered for a final time to say good-bye for a private funeral in new zealand. ♪ the former all black swinger died last month at age of 40 and his sudden death followed an almost 20 year battle with kidney disease and tuesday's service in oakland came a day after public memorial at the stadium attended by thousands of fans. ahead of athletics in kenya suspended by iaaf for six months as they investigate doping and corruption and the president is among three officials to be banned by the world governing body and kenya has seen several top athletes fail dope tests and seven more on saturday. last week kenya athletes staged a protest at athletics kenya demanding he resign from his

position. the main allegations of he and other officials have failed to properly address doping and siphoned money from nike and after he allegedly received a gift of two cars from qatar athletics association and he and two other officials deny allegations. captain morgan says his team are in the best position they can be and beat pakistan in the final 2020 match to clinch a series white wash with england already won the series and the third match was a dead rubber and memorable and leading two of four and can grab a single so the scores are tied and met the match had to be decided by super over when both had six scores each and the team with highest score wins and had three runs and knocked off their target with just a ball to spare.

messi may have been named on the three-man short lift for fifa player of the year on monday but in spain has been crowned the top player for la-liga and beat stiff competition to the title and named striker of the year in a ceremony in barcelona and then waldo were also in contention and the sixth time in the award seven-year history that messi has claimed the top prize. >> translator: i'm very happy and grateful about this award for this recognition, i think after the year we had winning everything we deserve these awards and maybe more but we are happy and grateful for the recognition we received today. >> reporter: that is all the sport for now, more later. >> thanks indeed, the latest on the day's top stories straight ahead on al jazeera but that is it for the news hour and thanks for watching and we will see you again. good-bye for now. ♪

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