tolerance and the value of human ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour, i'm live from the al jazeera headquarters in doha, coming up, in the next 60 minutes, an expanding coalition, german mps expected to approve military support in the fight against aisle. a cairo restaurant is the target of a firebombing, more than a dozen people killed. a married couple at the center of that california mass shooting had a weapon statute in their home. an armed group in mali pledges

allegiance once again to al-qaeda rejoining the group's north african branch. ♪ the german parliament is set to approve the government's plan to send 1200 soldiers to support the fight against i.s.i.l. in a noncombat role and politicians have been debating the bill over the past couple hours and a war ship and six aircraft are also part of chancellor angela merkel's proposal and appealed for help after last month's paris attacks and antiwar activists have been protesting against this plan. now if the plan is approved germany will be the latest addition to the international anti-i.s.i.l. coalition which includes dozens of countries however not everyone has played a military role and not all at the same time so here is a break down. these are the countries that have been involved in fighting

i.s.i.l., there is 18 of them in all. these are the ones that are carrying out or supporting air strikes in syria and these are the countries that are striking i.s.i.l. targets in iraq, now there is one caveat here, canada has since decided to call of their air strikes and increase presence of the ground and the strategy of countries such as italy and spain. countries like the u.s., france and now the uk are doing all three. political analysts says the plan is criticized because there is really a lack of clear goals. >> the opposition comes from the green party and from the very left who believe that it's neither a convincing reason to military action and avoid the word war nor is it clear what happens after such a military intervention. in the beginning there were different scenarios on the table, one of it was burden

sharing if france is using its troops in other parts of the world like in africa and germany takes over some of their operations and give more of french troops the opportunities to act the way they decided to act and now it seems as if france wants germany to be visibly involved in this and it's a commitment that germany wants to take because france is our closest ally. >> britain prime minister says strikes against i.s.i.l. targets in syria will take time and require persistence and david cameron has been speaking for the first time since mps gave the go ahead for the royal airforce to go into action in syria. >> there will be very strong support from muslim countries, gulf countries that have asked us to take part in this action as part of a process that will actually help to deliver the political and diplomatic change we need in syria as well but we are going to need to be patient and persistent and it's going to

take time, it is complex and difficult and we are asking our pilots to do and our thoughts should be with them and our families as we do this important work. >> police in thailand are reported to have received a warning from russia, a possible i.s.i.l. linked attack against russian visitors and the link to local media says ten syrian nationals who entered thailand in october will try to create incidents to effect russians, thailand is a popular holiday destinations for russians during the year. turkey's prime minister says russian sanctions will not bring his country to its knees regarding the shooting down of the military jet. on thursday vladimir poo ten warned of more action against ankara and rory reports from moscow. >> reporter: a chance for russia and turkey to face

tensions with a face-to-face meeting and foreign ministers on the sidelines of a security conference in belgrade but said it was unrealistic to solve problems with russia in just one meeting. >> translator: these meetings are important and both size don't want to escalate the tensions and both sides want to repair tensions with different positions but turkey wants to narrow down these differences, i'm sure once this is left behind common sense will prevail and i hope we will have good relations good like in the old days. >> reporter: in moscow vladimir putin delivered his state of the nation address, it's something he has done 12 times now but in few of his previous years was his nation quite so embroiled in the world's conflicts, after a world of conflicts a russian serviceman and civilians talked and called for global action. >> translator: we need to set aside all arguments and

differences to create one powerful feast, one united antiterrorist front which will act on the basis of international order and under the auspices of the united nations. >> reporter: and for turkey a threat that more retaliatory measures will follow and indeed negotiations have just been suspended for one of the country's biggest joint energy projects with the green gas pipeline. this would have been a way for russian gas destined for european markets to avoid another neighbor that russia now has explosive relations with, ukraine. now talk of international isolation is often over blown but has last key allies in the last two years. responding to russian allegations that turkey has been buying oil from i.s.i.l. president erdogan hit back with accusations of his own. >> translator: who is buying

that oil? let me tell you, a syrian who has a russian passport, george is the biggest trader and buys oil from da'esh and sells it to the regime and international oil traders and most recently the u.s. department of treasury made it public and a chess player and also in the oil trade and we have documents and will make them public to the world. >> russia is demanding apology for turkey for the loss of the plane and urging russia to keep a cool head but now a war of words goes on, rory for al jazeera in moscow. a molotov cocktail hurled in a restaurant in the egypt killed 16 people and one was an employee who had been dismissed from his job at this restaurant. police are searching for three men. this happened close to cairo's

city center. reports say that the site attack includes a nightclub and we are joined in the studio and jamal what else do we know about this horrible attack? >> well, i know in terms of it's very surprising that a molotov cocktail can kill so many people and we know the place and it was in the basement of a building, no fire exits, no safety standards there. obviously police were very quick to say this was not what they call a terrorist attack because egypt has come under these so called attacks in resent months and there is this kind of fear or paranoya and it doesn't make the situation better regardless of the motives really. >> egypt obviously for lack of a better term don't want any more bad press and want people to feel comfortable coming there and when we hear about things like this it's the last thing

they want people to know about but clamp down so much on press i wonder if it had anything to do with us finding out about it hours after the fact. >> from a transparency perspective there is no freedom of press or things like that we may not know what the motives were, how they were done and so forth. in terms of the reputation and what this does in terms of consumer confidence and tourists to come to egypt and this is the last thing they need. the sinai peninsula and all of these areas are known for tourists after the downing of the russian plane over there and now in central cairo where some tourists felt they were a bit more safe because of capitol buildings and so forth and you as a tourist go to a nightclub or restaurant and a molotov cocktail is going to do something to me is a big issue but the question is how is the government going to respond and when there is not transparency or accountability that is when a

lot of people are becoming skeptical about and the situations go on and nothing will go on and president abdel-fattah el-sissi when he asked about the coup he said he would bring about stability and security and neither have come yet. >> at this point they are searching for three men in connection with this awful attack and believe at least one person involved was a disgruntled employee is what they are reporting now, thank you for joining me here in the studio, appreciate it. moms and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been found in the home of the couple with the mass shooting in california and detectives trying to find the motive of the killing of 14 people at an office party in sand bernidino and syed farook

and hussam ayloush were shot dead. >> as we entered into the conference room the situation was surreal and something we don't prepare for and active shooter we talk about sensory overload and try to throw everything at you to prepare you for dealing with that, what you are seeing and what you are hearing and what you are smelling and it was all of that and more. it was unspeakable. the carnage we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead and that pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe. >> reporter: meanwhile the victims of that shooting are being remembered, a candlelight vigil held at a stadium in san bernardino. about 2000 people gathered to mourn the dead and offer prayers

for 21 people injured, the sense of disbelief is also being felt by those kwho knew the suspected attackers personally as rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: these men worshipped with syed farook in this mosques on the outskirts of san bernardino and didn't think he was radical or capable of murder. >> doesn't make sense and he was married with a six-month-old daughter and he had a good job, what would make a person do such a thing. >> reporter: said that syed farook was never angry or a person holding a grudge. you didn't talk about politics or international affairs. they do say syed farook took his muslim faith very seriously and even memorized the entire kran and they are as shocked and

baffled as anybody else of why he had done what he did. >> we have seen him a few years and see him in the mosque and other than that he seemed like a nice person and it's shocking, it's somebody we know who actually did the crime. >> reporter: on thursday they allowed journalists to get close to the inland regional center where the killings happened and what shocks people most are how syed farook and his wife hussam ayloush could have made pipe bombs and mass murder while caring for a six-month-old baby girl and on thursday the muslim community gathered, praying, mourning and trying to make sense of an unfathomable crime. video emerged from a multi operation in cameroon that freed 900 hostages held by boko haram and 100 fighters killed and 100

others arrested in the operation last week and forces from cameroon and nigeria and chad were all involved and cameroon says the hostages were being trained as suicide bombers and fighters. an armed group responsible for an attack on a hotel in mali which killed 21 people six weeks ago has rejoined all -- al-qaeda branch and will join attacks there and abroad. >> reporter: the nigeria group said it carried out the attack on the radisson blu hotel in the capitol and split from the north african branch two years ago but the two groups have joined forces again and the leader of al-qaeda north african branch made the announcement in a video message. >> translator: we tell our beloved nation that the lines of islam have joined al-qaeda in

islamic who will be one sword who we which to slaughter our fist enemy namely france and its agents in the region. >> reporter: they say they coordinated the attack on the radisson blu hotel. other armed groups including i.s.i.l. operate in north africa but analysts say his decision to align itself once more with al-qaeda, not i.s.i.l., is telling. they want the fighters free from mali's prisons and attacks on northern mali to stop and the president rejects their accusation and demands. >> translator: we do not persecute any minority in mali, not in the north, not in the center and by the way the attacks on the radisson blu hotel condemned by the movements in northern mali. >> reporter: mali has been in a political crisis since the coup

three years ago followed by an armed rebellion in the north which led to french military involvement. since then mali has taken control of its own security but its allies, france and the united states remain ready to help as they did during the attack on the radisson blu hotel and the leader of al-qaeda north africa branch said in the message he welcomed hotel attack and warned of more attacks in france. victoria with al jazeera. do stay with us on the news hour, plenty more to come, teenagers of the occupation we meet the palestinian boys searching for hope with daily harassment and humiliation. and devices of price and production as the world gathers in vienna and football and election for a new argentina president ends in chaos. ♪

china's president announced a package worth $60 billion for african countries. and xi jinping made the announcement at the opening of a trade and investment summit south africa and the funds will go to promoting, cooperation and supporting development efforts and a number of african heads of state are attending this two-day meeting and tonya page is live for us in johannesburg and tell us more about this deal, it's $60 billion, you can do a lot with that. >> you can and you can certainly do a lot with us it in africa and we know some of the details of it, $5 billion will be in interest-free loans, very important to many african countries who have struggling economies, $35 billion is in other loans, preferential credit facilities they are described as

and about $160 million will go to food aid and food assistance because as we know across southern africa many countries hit by drought it's important to point out that there are a raft of deals being met in the conference center just behind me, at least 25 heads of state from across africa and quite tricky negotiations because of course chinese president xi jinping has to deal with sort of competing regional interests as well and quite interesting discussions happening there, zimbabwe president described xi jinping as being sent from god, this morning that is how important african countries view their relationship with china. >> let's talk a little bit more about china, is chinese interests broadening? >> oh, absolutely. i mean although traditionally of course and even now the majority of trade relates to chinese

extraction and buying raw materials and gold and copper from zambia dominates the trade deals however we saw a good example of this i think when $6.5 billion deals were signed and announced with south africa and go across areas, industrial development, and injection of funding into the sort of manufacturing in south africa, loans to sort of embattled state enterprises like the state power company and we know of course we have seen lots of blackouts in south africa and also with technology, education and health so a really wide range and i think china in the past year particularly has been at pains to point out that it has more interest here than those just relating to buying and extracting africa's raw materials and minerals.

>> tonya page live from johannesburg thank you. an opec meeting started in vienna and the leading exporter saudi arabia is being blamed for keeping oil prices low and he says saudi arabia has a responsibility to maintain current production levels but other countries want to cut supply to try to force oil prices up. the revenues have been badly hit by a dramatic fall in oil prices. so why has the falling price of oil caused divisions within opec, opec was formed 55 years ago to come up with policies for the production and supply of oil. the price of oil is currently $45 a barrel and that is less than a third of its value to seven years ago, all 12 opec members are feeling the pinch, libya and venezuela are already in financial crisis and nations like saudi arabia and qatar have

the reserves to have low oil prices for some time and have pressure on opec to change the policy and cut oil production to push oil prices backup but opec is not expected to budge especially non-opec like the u.s. will not cut the supply either and this is the meijer source of london and joins us from vienna and we appreciate it. so let's talk about saudi arabia's strategy, how would you characterize it? >> well, the strategy was a strategy for market share. the kingdom said okay we have so many low cost producers and the prices tumbled because there was not enough demand and you had $5 million of shale coming in, high cost production so it was a strategy to make sure this high

cost production some of that will be taken off and that is why we have these low oil prices and at this point saudi arabia says fine if you want to cut fine but we will not cut by ourselves and then everybody else keeps on producing, that doesn't work for them. don't forget their oil companies in the country of saudi arabia and the people of saudi arabia so they need to make sure they do the best thing for the people. >> so you don't anticipate them changing in the coming days of this meeting? >> i don't anticipate a change. what i anticipate is the following they will rollover the production targets but they will have more talks because for some countries the pain is really very much. you look at nigeria, you look at venezuela, you look at some of the countries with a weak balance of payments and for them it's really tough and for the gulf countries it's tough because a they have foreign reserves and if they go through them very quickly they still

have huge debt capacity because they have not borrowed so far and can always go to the international capitol marks so for saudi arabia they get that and uae it's not that bad for certain other countries, they are really suffering. >> imf report says if oil stays around $50 a barrel most countries in the middle east will, in fact, run out of cash in about five years or less. this can't go on. >> i actually don't agree with the imf support. i see they have looked at if we go on as we are but what you see in places like saudi arabia when the oil price comes down they take better economic policy measures so they will probably spend less over time and also it's the debt capacity, saudi has not gone really to the capitol markets and borrow and saudi can borrow and i think

they can probably weather the storm for several years or so and by about 2017 oil prices will go markedly up because we have seen 20% of investment of international oil companies, about $200 billion being deferred or cancelled and that will work its way through the system. it's ultra long cycle business so about three years or so they won't be able to produce and have not built up the new production and the demand will still be there so by the end of next year prices will pick up and by 2017, 2018 fasten your seat belts they will go really up. >> for some countries though that is a really long time away, thank you so much. palestinian teenagers in the occupied territories live under constant threat of israeli crack down and lack of safety and constant humiliation led to

growing anger and frustration and at times to violence and we report from occupied east jerusale jerusalem. . >> translator: i wish to wake up in a jerusalem at peace. for how long will our blood run? perhaps it's the best way to express how he feels. >> translator: life in the old city has become very difficult to those of my age, we like to go out but now we can't do anything, it's too dangerous, if i go out for a walk i will get stopped more than once and if a soldier speaks bad for me i want to defend myself but if i say something wrong i will get detained and parents do not allow us to live at home, they are too scared. >> reporter: this boy school is in the heart of jerusalem old city and tensions are high and

being a palestinian teenager these days is not easy. >> we take out the questions and do not go to the jewish said and can be dangerous for us and they can accuse us of anything and say he is an arab and that is enough for the police to shoot at us and humiliated. >> reporter: they live in the old city or occupied west bank and coming to school has become difficult. the internal security services says it's exactly the sense of deprivation and lack of hope that is at the core of anger among so many palestinian youth. and that bottled up anger and frustration sometimes translates into acts of violence and it's what happened here, two cousins of 15 and 13 on october 12th after school stopped two israelis and one died and the other was detained.

>> and he describes a situation while he is older and 15 years old cousin addresses him, one of two days before and tells him we should be because life is so bad and we have no future and i don't see any horizon. in his affidavit from the 14th of october still in the hospital. he says we know what will happen after the stabbing or they will break our bodies just like now or we will die. >> reporter: he is now standing trial and could face up to 20 years in prison. adam shares that frustration but he wants to become a

professional footballer. >> translator: education is my way of fighting and it's more than stones but with this situation many times i'm prevented from going to school and miss out on a lot of classes. what is the point of being uneducated and i tell my friends but not many listen. >> reporter: he doesn't feel safe and his teacher walks him to the check point before his home. he went through this time but tomorrow is another day full of worries. al jazeera, occupied east jerusalem. water levels in india's southern state have receded after a pause in heavy rainfall. that has given emergency services a chance to step up their rescue operations, thousands of people have been forced from their homes and the city has been hit by the worst flooding in more than 100 years. >> translator: power supply has been restored in areas where

there is no water logging and communication has improved and been able to communicate with our officers and team leaders, there are several places we dried up as the water levels have receded. >> we will get an update on that situation and much more for you with everton, hi everton. >> hi, and the water levels have receded and going down but we have further showers in the forecast and look at the satellite picture here and you can see the clutch of storms in india and wetter weather has over the last few hours by slipping its way further southward and just to the south we had 104 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours and chad had rain and that is an improvement but if you look at the last five days 548 millimeters of rain in only five days, the average for

the entire month of december is around 140 millimeters of rain and that is absolutely huge and there is more rain where that came from and the airport has been flooded and you can see shanty towns have been flooded, not too far outside and of course we have the flooding in the roads and in the streets, it really is extensive, it really is pretty poor and i'm afraid we are going to see further showers over the next few days and as i said the wettest weather is just to the south and heavy showers coming in the far southeast corner and showers drifting on shore and going through saturday and into sunday you can see the wetter weather stays south but the showers very much do remain in the forecast so there will be further rain as we go on into the early part of next week, some of that rain will pick up once again so i fear that the situation is certainly going to get a lot worse before it gets better. >> everton thank you, plenty

more still ahead on al jazeera including we will tell you how a crack down on human trafficking is creating a whole new problem for thailand. plus it's a battle for kundus in northern afghanistan and traders in the center of town try to drum up business. coming up, in sport one hockey player gets a close save as a visor protects his face from a sharp gate. ♪

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these are your top stories german parliament to approve the government plan to send 1200 soldiers to support the fight against i.s.i.l. in a noncombat role and politicians have been be debating the bill for the past couple of hours. 16 people have been killed by a molotov cocktail hurled at a restaurant in the egyptian capitol of cairo and official told local media one of the attackers was an employee who had been dismissed from his job at the restaurant and police are now searching for three men. pipe bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been found at the couple of the center of the mass shooting in california and investigators still looking in the motive of the killing of 14 people at an office party in san bernardino. they held to the polls for elections which could see the opposition make gains and good short a

short -- shortages is dealing with the party and we have more from corocas. >> reporter: this is an election campaign by venezuela government almost in apolyptic terms and they are calling this a historic battle to restore the revelation and prevent venezuela from being plunged into darkness. >> translator: i'm conscious of what is at stake and not the model in venezuela because all of latin america. >> no effort was spares to rally supporters here with the help of the vast media network, for the first time in 17 years the opposition has a good chance of chipping away at the revolution monopoly and state power and it's what they view as a referendum who replaced chavez 2

1/2 years ago when he died. everywhere you look you can see chavez image and it's clear, do not betray him, he is watching. ♪ but venezuela one of the world's largest oil producing plays has plunged in an economic crisis maybe by the steep drop in oil prices and venezuela people say they are tired of shortages of food, medicine, basic services and the highest inflation rates in the world and more and more people here hold the government responsible. although the government vows it will respect the results, the president is sending a worry some and contradictory message to the opposition telling supporters here they must win the elections at all costs no matter what it takes. and breaking news to bring to you now after hours of debate

the german parliament has now agreed to the government's plan to send 1200 soldiers to support the fight against i.s.i.l. this is going to be in a noncombat role. also a war ship and war craft will be sent to the area and part of the proposal set forth by angela merkel after meeting with the president of france of course after the attacks in paris a couple weeks ago so that is a yes from the german parliament and now there have been protests in germany so the population is not necessarily in lock step with parliament but parliament has voted yes and we will continue to follow that and discuss it more in the next hour. meantime riot police have fought with protesters in ecuador after the national assembly voted to end the limit on how long a president can stay in power. demonstrators burned flags of the ruling party and demanded a referendum on the reforms and raphael has been president for eight years and the left wing leader is barred from running

again in 2017 but the changes mean he could be a candidate four years later. reaction to upcoming impeachment hearing against the president ranged from astonishment and we went to a worker in a shanty town and gave us his thoughts on the latest chapter in brazil's political crisis. >> translator: my name is brandon and work as a metal worker. it has been a year since i started here. i've had a lot of different jobs because these days you just can't have one. at the beginning of this year things were still moving but lately it really slowed down and used to be things got busy at the end of the year but not this year and prices have gone up and still going up, there is no room

to breathe. >> translator: you have to shoot yourself in the head to put food on the table. crime has gotten worse, hunger has gotten worse, we really believed in lula and thought she was helping her and would do good things. it's time in office for me was really good and good for a lot of people in my family and for a lot of people in brazil it was good and before that no one had h ht-tv and now a lot of people are not eating and with the president i'm in agreement of impeaching her and tell me a single thing we have gotten and all i see is unemployment in the street, theft in the communities, theft everywhere.

all they talk about in congress is theft, theft, theft and nothing good for the people, it's waste, waste, waste at expense of the poor and need the government and all coming out of the pockets and keep raising the prices on everything. >> translator: so now i hear that the speaker of the congress has begun to impeach dilma and if he is helping to confront the government i support him completely. it's better to go through a year of fighting than have to live through four more years of suffering is the way i see it. better to fight for a year and see what happens. security in the afghan city of kundus is effecting business and they took control by taliban in september and held it for two weeks and the government has taken most of the city and people who left their homes are

reluctant to return and jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: in the center of kunduz the restaurant owner says he is struggling to make a living because this city was under taliban control for more than two weeks back in september and october. >> translator: because office the insecurity in kunduz rich people left the city particularly the youth and 70% of young people have left and are not here any more. >> reporter: while he still gets a few customers at lunchtime and early evening his working day has been cut short by six hours and used to stay open until midnight and now he closes before dark because of a lack of security. >> translator: after dark no one can go out of kunduz city, not even two kilometers from the center of the city and some areas there is government and other areas no government. >> while the government now controls the center of the city the taliban is not far and control villages a few

kilometers outside the city, shops are open but many other businesses are not. >> translator: there were people who were working, making money and spending money but now there are no offices, no work, everything has collapsed and officers have closed and people have left, who can buy things. >> reporter: everyday dozens of men line the streets hoping to find work for the day but they say the jobs have dried up. and those construction projects are halted with no prospect the building will start soon. >> translator: after the fall of kunduz people don't trust the future here and don't want to invest their money here because they are not sure it will fall again and the reason they stopped investing and poor people cannot find work. >> in a country that survived 40 years of war afghans learned to be resourceful but the taliban capture of the city since it was removed from power in 2001 has made people nervous here and they are concerned that kunduz

will never be the same again, jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. people with disabilities held a sit in protest of the india city and unhappy the government has failed to pass a law giving disabled persons equal rights and opportunities and say the bill will also allow the creation of a barrier free environment and more than 26 million people in india are disabled. horrific images of dead bodies in the jungle and desperate starving migrants abandon at sea was met with an international course of condemnation and demanded answers and solutions to the southeast asia conferences and despite not allowing migrants to come to shore there was a lead in the conference by starting a new court specifically for trafficking but as we report from bangkok some view the moves as too little, too late. >> the grim evidence of years of

human trafficking gone unchecked and unhindered. a mass grave found last may in the camp border with malaysia and had a swift crack down with the thai government and only pushed the problem off shore and people from myanmar and bangladesh were left in the sea and they had a high-level regionalel meeting to deal with the issue and created a new criminal court division to prosecute suspects accused of trafficking persons or tip. >> translator: in this new division the judges give priority to human trafficking cases. it means trials related to human trafficking will be tried faster than other criminal cases. >> reporter: last month the first defendants appeared, the highest profile one lieutenant

and his attorney feels there is a political element to the new human trafficking division. >> i believe the set up of the new division is because of international pressure, for the case of the rohinga it's about leading illegal migrants and not trafficking and it damaged thailand's image. >> where the 88 defendants will face trial and the criminal courts are transferred from the southern border area and the trial is expected to take at least a year. seven judges will preside over the case and includes human trafficking dating back to 2011 and 500 witnesses will be questioned and he has been working with rohinga refugees for years and sees the new court as a start but says much more needs to be done. >> translator: it doesn't matter how great the new court is, thailand needs to change the whole system and to make the

public understand better the definition of human trafficking and the police need to cleanup their act and enforce the law. >> reporter: if more change needs to happen it needs to happen soon, the sailing season has started and there are reports that more rohinga have taken to the sea in smaller boats but still taking a big gamble on finding a better life, al jazeera, bangkok. still ahead on al jazeera as the first u.s. commercial nuclear plant in two decades and launch we look at the country for lessons to embrace then guy source and the world's number one golfer jordan spieth gets a hole in one in the bahamas. ♪

♪ the first new u.s. commercial nuclear power plant for more than 20 years is due to go online in 2016, the u.s. is the world's largest provider of power and generates more electricity than all renewable alternatives combined and we report from tennessee and the industry is being challenged by concerns over safety and cost. >> along the tennessee river it's the fishing. >> hit and miss and depending how the weather is. >> reporter: concerns these locals but not the watch bar one nuclear plant that has been providing carbon free electricity to the region for a generation and soon its twin will go online, the first u.s.

commercial nuclear reactor completed in the 21st century, after delays and post fukushima upgrades took the cost to $4 billion but the people who built it say they have no regrets. >> it is clean and second in cost and smart for changing times and a sound business decision. >> reporter: nuclear power is having a difficult passage in the country which first developed it for peaceful as well as military purposes. and watch bar two is one of five plants under construction five others closed in the past few years and utilities announced plans to shut down eight more saying more regulations softening demand and competition for gas made them unprofitable and blame the antinuclear movement with designs points to

disasters like first u.s. commercial nuclear fukushima. >> do we want to do this with the energy needs. >> reporter: they favor more nuclear plants as does the obama administration and it's backed by some climate activistst who see it important in the fight against fossil fuels and james hanson says ruling out nuclear power would only worsen the prospects for global warming. >> there is plenty of gas in the ground and if we go down the route of renewables plus gas we will lock in gas and guaranty that our children and grandchildren get a climate situation that is out of their control. >> reporter: as they hesitate they power on for the atom to

carve a path to energy independence, tom actkermaacker spring city, tennessee. your sport and the election of the new president of the argentina futbol is in chaos with the system and it came as u.s. authorities indicted 16 more people as part of the fifa corruption investigation and many are from latin america and daniel reports from buenos aires. >> reporter: it was a choice between the new a tattooed t.v. host and one of the most well-known states in argentina from the top lorenzo and the old and acting president of the argentina futbol association who for many years was close to the former chief and he ran argentina futbol for 35 years until hislet last year and a

fifa vice president and close to many of those now being charged and detained by the u.s. authorities accused of corruption of awarding t.v. rights to screen big games. >> betrayal of trust that is society forth here is truly outrageous and the scale of corruption is unconsciousable and should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows hoping to evade this on going investigation you will not wait us out and you will not escape our focus. >> reporter: among those to fall are the head of the south american futbol federation from paraguay and this other man and both arrested in a swiss hotel as fifa met to try to put its house in order. but there is corruption in latin american futbol and no surprised to the long suffering fans here, what is new is those being accused are now being arrested

and charged, forcing bodies like this one the argentina futbol association to at least show they are trying to cleanup their act and is this just for show? a ruined ballot paper, chaos and confusion and he has been investigating corruption in latin american futbol for many years. >> translator: there is a trend emerging here when one is arrested and he confesses and as another one gets arrested and he ens up giving more information and the original f.b.i. report says all the top officials are taking bribes. >> reporter: argentina continues to produce great players that brace teams around the world they are hostage to violent fans and corrupt officials, and the new president was once president of argentina's most famous club juniors and understands better than most the need to work closely with whoever emerges from the head of the argentina

futbol association where futbol, politics and business are inseparable, buenos aires. the latest indictments from the u.s. justice department means the total number charged is now 41 individuals and will have to post a report and doesn't expect it to stop there. >> i think it's clear that the united states and switzerland together are going to continue prosecuting and continue investigating not just fifa itself but the federations that make it up and that this is not stopping now and it's not going to stop at 16 more indictments today, it's not going to stop there is 41 carried out so far and 12 convictions and they will keep on going and i think they were clear that if you are a fifa official who has not been above board you are on notice.

madrid president perez says his club didn't break the rules and shouldn't be kicked out of the coppa-del-ray in a win here and he even scored a goal but later turned out he was meant to be serving a one-game suspension from last season when he was alone at villa-ria. >> translator: nobody notified him of the sanction and therefore it's not effective and madrid did not know and nobody communicated it to the club to the spanish federation and a person expression has been recognized by the sports administrative tribunal. coach of valencia says the challenge of leading the spanish club was too big to turn down and united was presented at the

club stadium on thursday and will take over to the end of the season. >> if i turned down this job i think i could have said good-bye to credibility in futbol because this is an unbelievable club with a huge history and i'm proud to be here. if phil wasn't here i would be here and he is diligent, hardworking and talented and from my point of view i'm delighted he is here. >> reporter: olympic games in rio de janeiro node to slash the money and people who travel there next year and feel the effects of budget cuts first hand, recession and the fall of the value of local currency and 10% inflation are to blame and even considering cutting some of the facilities in the athlete's

accommodations. >> we considered not providing air conditioning to the bedrooms because the games they will be summer games that will take place in the winter. and the winter can be hard but not as much and certainly not as humid so we were checking and in some areas still checking if we really need air conditioning. >> reporter: and they share the lead after the first round of the world challenge in the bahamas and world one and defending champion spieth is a shot five under par and opened the masters winner and sank a hole in one on the second and featured 18 of the top ranked golfers in the world. in the nhl the colorado avalanche beat the new york rangers and a main piece of

action there but there was a scary moment in the second period when new york's rick nash clipped johnson and it hit and e and managed to return to the game and avalanche went on to win 2-1. australia surfer nick fanning is a step closer to claiming his fourth world total winning an event in hawaii for the first time and he won events the world cup event at beach victory and claimed the world champion and you may remember later in the year the family survived a shark attack, lucky escape. >> very lucky and thank you so much. and do keep it here on al jazeera. there is another full bulletin of news, a couple of breaking stories they are working on for you and thank you very much for your time. ♪

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