harris and the news continues next live from london. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello for me david foster and it's 6:00 p.m. in london, 1800 gmt wherever you are watching the al jazeera news hour. among our top stories as germany joins the fight against i.s.i.l. in syria francois hollande meets the crews leading the french offensive. a special report as we speak to young palestinians about the fears and frustrations they say are behind so many acts of violence. cameroon reveals what it believes boko haram had planned for hundreds of hostages before

they were rescued. and no slow down opec to continue pumping huge amounts of oil into an already over supply in the world market. i'm with the sport and one of the fifa presidential candidates dispense the world governing body over the latest rounds of arrest and rual madrid kicked off after fielding an ineligible player. ♪ germany is the latest country to take on a direct role in the battle against islamic state of iraq and the levante in syria. crucially though it will be a noncombat mission. politicians in germany voted to send the maximum of 1200 soldiers and serve in support roles in turkey, kuwait and qatar and will deploy jets and

it's a mission that will initially last a year and cost it is estimated $146 million. it is the german response to a french request for help after last month's paris attacks and they believe germany is now a target as well. paul brennan reports. >> reporter: the vote in germany's lower house was overwhelming. a margin of 445 in favor to 146 against and it reflects a wider mood broadly supportive of military action. but nonetheless german lawmakers faced questions and debate. >> translator: a war has a terror and do those countries leading the war really want to get in a competition with i.s.i.l. about who understands more about murder? those who do this have already lost. >> translator: there needs to be a damn good argument to vote no, to vote in favor to the

nothing, ladies and gentlemen there are no good arguments of taking action and it's time to act and above all for the victims we want to help. >> reporter: 58% of germans in favor of action even though the same poll found that 63% believed the risk of an i.s.i.l. attack on german soil will increase as a result. the parliamentary vote stopped short though of authorizing german air strikes inside syria. instead berlin is sending support forces including six of these tornado recognizance jets equipped with record light technology and also german refueling aircraft and naval, up to 12000 personnel. >> translator: we are making a very meaningful contribution to the already existing systems because with our tornados we can make available highly detailed images of large areas in a very short period of time. that is an ability which does not yet exist in the region. >> reporter: the french president francois hollande made

a surprise visit by helicopter to the aircraft carrier on friday to meet the french pilots and support crews who have been launching support groups against i.s.i.l. targets since their deployment to the region last month and doubt lingers and effectiveness is a french journalist who spent ten months in i.s.i.l. captivity. >> they have considerable counter effects and should listen even at the syrian human rights activists, they are saying we do not need more bombs. we need no fire zone. we need protection. we need for civilians and we needless and more nations bonding with us. >> reporter: yet the bombingly continues and they say heavy bottom bartment on friday killed 26 civilians and a third of them children, the coalition against i.s.i.l. is growing but so are the casualties. paul brennan, al jazeera.

britain prime minister is saying air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets in syria or at least the effects of them will take time and require assistance and david cameron talking for the first time since british mp gave the go ahead for airforce to go into action. they 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 that we need in syria as well but we are going to need to be patient and persistent. this is going to take time. it is complex. it is difficult and we are asking our pilots to do and our,000 thoughts should be with them and their families as they commerce this important work. possible i.s.i.s. attacks on russians going to thailand and police suggest up to ten syrians with links to the group entered thailand in october with the intent of targeting rush sun tourists.

thai police confirmed that it's legitimate and say they have no proof as to whether the group is in thailand or not. police say security will be increased at embassys. the senior lebanese official is warning the town of arsal is being held hostage and i.s.i.l. and al-nusra front fighters have been active on lebanon eastern border close to syria for more than a year. it's been the site of prolonged fighting between the lebanese army and other groups since syria's civil war spilled into neighboring countries. >> translator: the whole area, not the village is an occupied area. if someone says otherwise then they are not and not fully informed about the situation. in this area there are 120,000 syrian refugees, more than double the original population. and of course there are also thousands of fighters inside and around the area. >> it's been another day of violence in the occupied west bank and we have four more

palestinians killed, one palestinian was shot dead after an alleged stabbing and a man was shot dead after ramming a car into two israelis and both were injured. earlier israeli troops killed two palestinians who allegedly stabbed a soldier in hebron and the soldier is being treated for minor injuries, 112 palestinians and 17 israelis have been killed in the violence which started at the beginning of october. here bethlehem and the occupied west bank more violence there. stones were thrown by protesters at security forces. they responded with stun and smoke grenades. this kind of violence has been a common occurrence with prayers and unrest and here is stephanie decker. >> reporter: it's the norm and israeli army saying there is stabbing and car ramming attacks in the occupied west bank on

friday and it goes in ebbs and flows and there are days when there are no incidents and there are days where they increase and it's something that is even almost palestinians are getting used to, in the beginning of october when we saw a real increase in this one on one violence, people would be in out law and on the news and nowadays it's something people are used to happening on a day-to-day basis and also some of the incidents are disputed and exactly how they are carried out, we hear the israeli army narrative and forces and it's very difficult to get a sense of the other side, the palestinian side but there is of course a lot of frustration i think and it tells you that the street is very tense, certainly one on one people are suspicious of each other, israeli, palestinian and also there is a lot of frustration when you speak to palestinians they will tell you this is as a result of decades of occupation, that the youth are frustrated and trying to do something but when you speak to the older generation many of

those that i've spoken to will say they have lost hope and many of these youth who go out to try and do something in their eyes is resistance to the occupation is in vain because nothing will change. stephanie was suggesting there it is the thought of many young palestinians that they are behind many of the resent attacks including teenagers and we have been to meet some of the youngsters in occupied east jerusalem to find out what they think could be pushing more of their age to violence. >> translator: i wish to wake up in a jerusalem at peace. for how long will our blood run? and rapping is the best way to express how he feels. 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, if a soldier speaks back to me i want to defend myself, if i say something wrong i will get detained and parents don't let us leave home, they are too scared. >> reporter: this boy school is in the heart of jerusalem's old city. tensions are high and being a palestinian teenager these days is not easy. >> translator: we take the questions and do not go to the jewish side and it can be dangerous for us and anyone can accuse us of anything and we can scream he is an arab and it's enough for the police to shoot at us and sad and humiliated. most of the students here live in the old city or the occupied west bank, and coming to school has become difficult. recent report with the israel's internal security forces says that it's the sense of

deprivation and lack of hope that is at the core of the anger among so many palestinian youth. and that bottled up anger and frustration sometimes translates into acts of violence. it's what happened to two cousins of 15 and 13 and on october 12 after school stabbed two israelis and one died and the other was detained. >> and he describes a situation when while he is older and 15-year-old cousin addresses him one or two days before and tells him we should be martyrs because life is so bad, we have no future and i don't see any horizon. in his affidavit from the 14th of october still in the hospital and he says we know what will

happen after the stabbing or they will break or bodies just like we are in now or will it be shorter? or will it be martyrs? which means or we will die. >> he is now standing trial and could face up to 20 years in prison. and he shares that frustration but he wants to become a professional footballer. >> translator: education is my way of fighting. it has more impact than stones but with this situation many times i'm prevented from going to school and i miss out on a lot of classes, what is the point of being free if i'm uneducated and i tell my friends but not many listen. >> reporter: he doesn't feel safe. his teacher walks him on 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. u.n. says yemen is at serious risk of under going famin and half the country is classified on an emergency level of food and security. u.n.'s world food program says 14 million people struggling now to get enough food as the violence in the country continues. >> clearly yemen is one of the hardest places in the world today to work with massive security concerns and escalating in the fighting and violence across the country. we are doing well. we are improving our reach and getting to more people every month but clearly with half the country now just one step away from famine we need the international community to really come behind us and support us particularly over the next few months. >> reporter: at least 16 people died in cairo in an arson attack on a nightclub. a petrol bomb was held in the outside of the club in the capitol, the interior minister now says the police are searching for six suspects. spokesman saying they arrived at

the club with the flammable cocktails after two of them were refused entry and no one inside survived, it had one exit and the witness said it looked like the wooden roof caught fire and then collapsed. >> translator: three men came to the nightclub on a motorcycle and they wouldn't let them in so they came back with three molotov cocktails and through them and escaped and everyone inside died and only two or three survived. >> reporter: stay with us and we report to afghanistan and how traders are trying to drum up business in the besieged city of kunduz. we will look at the u.s. reluctance to embrace nuclear energy despite repairing for the launch of the first commercial nuclear plan in years, we have the sport as well. >> what happened with the resent arrest in may or yesterday are related to the considerations of the americas and has nothing to do with fifa.

>> reporter: take over fifa defends futbol's world governing body. ♪ well now to africa where cameroon say many of the men, women and children have been rescued from boko haram are to be used as suicide bombers and hundreds were freed on the border of cameroon and nigeria and her is emma hey wood. >> reporter: in the back of a packed truck there was relief and desperation, exhaustion too, among women and children freed during an operation led by the cameroon military. now in need of food and water. this group were among 90 hostages who had been held by boko haram fighters in several different places along the border between cameroon and nigeria. cameroon says a senior member of the group was killed during the tuesday operation which also

left 100 fighters dead. >> translator: among the enemies neutralized we can count on uganda head of operations for boko haram in the area and led several attacks against our territory, large amounts of weapons and ammunitions and propaganda and jihad flags were confiscated during his operations. >> reporter: boko haram roughly translates as western education is forbidden, it has an armed campaign in northern nigeria left thousands dead during the last six years. earlier this year it allied itself with i.s.i.s. and has been operating beyond nigeria's borders, carrying out several cross border attacks in cameroon over the past few months. it is unclear whether any of the women and girls freed this week were among the more than 200 seized from their dormitorys at their school more than a year ago. those freed in this latest

operation will now be reunited with their families, emma with al jazeera. let's talk about this a bit more now and this is from the university at london, the leading institution for the study of africa and the middle east and more than that any you have been to the areas controlled by boko haram, you are going back i think next week and how much is the situation shifted in the direction of the nigerian and cameroon security forces from where it was when you were last there which is what 15 months ago? >> fairly so, yes, i think that the main thing one has noticed with regard to the insurgencys has progression is it has spurred the countries with borders around the chad basin to collaborate more and so you will have noticed before, last year, there was a sort of a

reluctance, reluctance between the different countries, cameroon, nigeria and chad and nigeria to share information and also to work together i suppose and that is due to the history. >> that has changed. >> it has changed very much so. >> there was always a concern that as one fought one in a particular area boko haram would move across to another area and so on and so on are they being squeezed to a certain extent they are finding it more difficult to find safe havens? >> quite so and i think that is one of the main reasons they resorted now to using more suicide bombers than we have in previous years. >> so we are talking here about hostages who were released, 900 of them and total numbers not confirmed and many being trained or forced to act as suicide bombers we believe. >> yes. >> i think if the numbers being banded by the cameroon and forces are actually true, it

will have been the biggest rescue operation we've had so far since the insurgency began around 2009. >> is it possible to say how many members of boko haram there are now aligned against how many members of the security forces from chad and nigeria and cameroon, what is the balance here? >> it's not quite possible at the moment to put an exact estimate on the amount of fighters on the boko haram side now but one thing we know for certain is that they obviously lack in man power at the moment in comparison to the numbers on the side of the multi national joint task force and also know of control of territory or

territorial space as well boko haram is in a much smaller space than the previously they were. >> and one if we can and talked 900 of these hostages and don't include the school girls we understand and how many people are being held prisoner do you think? >> it's impossible to tell at the moment but one thing we also need to note is prior to the abduction of the girls boko haram had been abducting boys, girls and adults from around the neighboring regions of them but the problem is the media did not quite catch on and also a reluctance especially on the part of the nigeria government to release this information to the public but i think the abduction of the 234 guards from the town for the world to pay

attention to the fact that human beings were being abducted and trafficked by boko haram. >> perhaps the tide is turning and we thank you very much indeed for talking to us. >> thank you. opec the organization of the petroleum export of the production will keep it the same despite the prices are going down and it divided a group of ministers and meeting in vienna a little bit earnly and so was b a, rnabie if -- barnabie philli. >> reporter: they are in vienna but paris they talked about weaning them off addiction to fossil fuels and here in vienna it's different, the concerns more immediate. low oil prices are hurting all 13 opec countries, saudi arabia, the biggest producer has argued they are a necessary evil to

help put rival non-opec oil producers in the usa and brazil out of business. but the weaker opec economy like venezuela went in the meeting saying saudi arabia should cut production to force prices backup and venezuela minister told me his country was not alone in its financial difficulties. >> some people tend to believe we are necessary for calling the price and only venezuela is interested but that is a big mistake. >> you are desperate. >> on the contrast, we are very worried about the price, all the countries and including the saudis and all the countries, okay so it's not just venezuela we are worried about. >> reporter: after seven hours of talk opec announced there would be no cuts in production and it agreed only to monitor events in the months ahead and i asked the nigerian oil minister how much the pain of low oil

prices are going to cause his country. >> we look at this how do we utilize the facility of the pain assume quote, unquote caused by reduce prices of the regime to try and get efficiencies in the system, efficiencies in production and cost management and transparency and everything so efficiency in the classification of local economy because this is done a long time ago. >> reporter: we are live in vienna and i think you pretty much covered all of it except one question which occurred to me, what difference is this going to make to me, to you, to anybody else who needs oil and uses it in one form or another? >> well, it will vary around the world david but i suppose the short answer is for oil consumers and we are all oil consumers to some extent this ought to be good news, the price

of petrol at the pump in the short term will remain low, opec countries won't be celebrating that fact and many ministers left here looking pretty worried this evening but when they look further ahead the long-term forecast talking to analysts here about the back half of 2016 if a global economic recovery continues to gain pace the feeling is that by that stage the saudi policy will have started to have born fruit and that some of the higher cost oil producers in the united states, in brazil and canada will cutback on production and prices will eventually rise. these things inevitably are sickiccel and it's the oil consumer and not the oil exporter who is winning. >> we will see how it changes and thanks very much indeed. u.s. police and the f.b.i. still

yet to officially to announce the motives behind the shooting deaths of 14 people in california this week. syed farook and his wife hussam ayloush attacked people at a christmas gathering east of los angeles. they were then killed themselves by police, explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been found at their home. rob reynolds our correspondent has been talking to people who knew the suspects. >> reporter: these men worshipped with syed farook at this mosque on the outskirts of san bernardino. they say they saw no signs that their acquaintance was radical or capable of mass murder. >> how could that be? it doesn't make sense? he is married. he had a six-month-old daughter and so on and so forth and had a good job. what would make a person do such a thing. >> reporter: they say syed farook was never angry or like a person holding a grudge. >> very respectful.

>> reporter: no political opinions and you didn't talk about politics or international affairs. >> reporter: they do say that syed farook took his muslim faith very seriously and even memorized the entire kran. the men who prayed with syed farook here at this mosque say they are as shocked and baffled as any one else about why he would have done what he did. >> we have known him for two years now and we have seen him in the mosque and other than that he seemed like a very nice person. i mean to us all of us it's very shocking that it's someone that we know that actually did this crime. >> reporter: on thursday afternoon police allowed journalists to get close to the inland regional center where the killings happened. what shocks many people here most is how syed farook and his wife hussam ayloush could have made pipe bombs and planned mass murder while caring for a six-month-old baby girl and thursday evening members of the muslim community gathered and praying and mourning and trying

to make sense of an unfathomable crime, rob reynolds in san bernardino. we report on brazil's supreme court rejecting an appeal to block the impeachment process of brazil's president dilma-rouseff and we will tell you what the tour de france champion tried to do to silence those who accused him of doping.

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little bit more closely, the divisions within opec and what it means for all of us and in 2008 a barrel of oil costing about $147, $148 and this fueled a revenue bonanza and it was countries like venezuela and racking it in and spent it on popular social programs and it has gone south now. about $45 a barrel because the global market is massively over supplied and venezuela being a number of opec members want to cut production to push the price up and saudi arabia and others wanted out put to stay at the current levels until non-opec countries agree to cut supplies as well and live at vienna where this is and i read neil that countries such as saudi wanted to keep levels of production high prices low and until other

opec countries cut their supplies of oil, is that going to happen now? >> well, i mean the strategy they have been following for about a year now has been that the only way that high cost production from places such as the united states is going to be cutback and controlled would be if oil prices were to fall to sufficiently low levels and it was uneconomic for them and started to see that happening already because u.s. shape production is falling and it will continue to fall as we go into 2016. so in some respects the strategy that saudi arabia has led within opec can be said to be working but so far it has been really an awful lot of pain without too much gain and for some of the opec members you mentioned venezuela a moment ago that applies nigeria and algeria they are in an especially bad position and begging opec to cut

production today but that was never likely to happen and had opec decided to cut production all it would have done is sent prices up and provide a lifeline for high cost shale producers and increased production and back in the same situation a few months down the line with nothing gained. >> opec is no longer a cartel but the most powerful oil exporting body on earth and effectively trying to put other people and competitors out of business is the way that i read it. >> well, yes, indeed because the world has got an awful lot of high cost oil. nobody in their right minds would explore for oil in the arctic or go thousands below with the sea and drill for other expensive forms of oil when there is much cheaper oil in abundance from places like the middle east and the middle eastern producers decided if they are going to maintain their

market share and fight for it the way it is to do is make sure that it's competitively priced and what we have seen since opec made the decision and opec at peril and in a few years when the growth has risen and the cost and non-opec producers are no longer producing as much we will need the oil more than ever before so victories of opec are very premature. >> they are trying to force others out of business so they can cut their production or at least not as much oil on the market and oil prices will therefore rise and the revenues will increase, it's murderous competition, isn't it. >> reporter: you can say that but, in fact, the idea is not to knock out all of the high-cost producers of course because if you were to do that and prices were to rise again then those producers would be tempted back into the market. one of the things we have

learned from the u.s. shale producers is that they are very flexible and can switch on and switch off and possibly switch on again their production relatively effectively so there is no issue that opec is trying to drive out the competition so it can gouge prices backup to humongous levels, that will not work in today's world where there is plenty for loyal supply in the world and plenty of people willing to produce if the price is high enough so opec is trying to achieve a level of market share that it feels comfortable with and anybody else that can produce outside the cartel at those price levels is welcome to do so. >> what about alternative energy, neil, opec prepared to know that in the future there will be people using a large amount of alternative energy, do they think they would then have to bring their prices back down again so the people didn't just go for the alternative and stayed with oil as well? >> well, renewable sources are

mainly applicable these days to the electricity industry and displacing coal from power generation and displacing a little bit of oil that is left in the power generation. as far as oil is concerned it still has an enormous overwhelming share, probably 80% or so of the world's supply of transport fuels so people who are flying and driving and people who are sailing and cargo ships will use liquid hydrocarbons for a long time to come so renewables is important and more important in years to come but its main penetration is in power generation and not yet in the world of transport where oil will remain the dominant factor. >> give it all context, we appreciate that neil atkinson talking to us from vienna. an armed group responsible for

attack in mali which killed more than 20 people have rejoined al-qaeda and says the fighters will conduct joint attacks on mali and elsewhere. and as victoria reports. >> reporter: the algerian based group says it carried out the attack on the radisson blu hotel in mali's capitol bamako and split from al-qaeda's branch and al-qaeda and the web two years ago but the two groups have joined forces again, the leader of al-qaeda's north african branch made the announcement in an audio message. >> translator: we tell our beloved nation that the lines of islam in the batalion and we are one sword to slaughter the enemy namely france and its agents in the region. >> reporter: they and al-qaeda

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 the decision by this leader to align his group once more with al-qaeda, not i.s.i.l. is unsurprising. >> i think in this particular context it's probably more personality based though it's possible that the kind of ideology flows in that in some way but i think this group is very much one that is sort of linked around the individual leader and he has always been very explicitly more in the sort of al-qaeda camp rather than the i.s.i.l. camp. >> reporter: they want its fighters freed from mali's prisons and army attacks on northern mali to stop. mali has been in a political crisis since the coup three years ago and it was followed by an armed rebellion in the north which led to french military involvement, since then mali has taken control of its own

security and allies and france and the united states are ready to help just like they did on the radisson blu hotel and the north african branch said in the audio message he welcomed the hotel attack and warned of more attacks in france, victoria with al jazeera. 2000 refugees and migrants have been pulled off 11 different boats in the mediterranean in a major multi national operation italian, british and spanish navies taking part in the rescue as well as a ship owned by the medical charity msf doctors without borders and the larged saved in the mediterranean for more than a month. refugees and migrants have been confronting police at the border of greece and macedonia where they have now been held for a number of weeks, about 3,000 people mainly from pakistan, morocco and iran have been kelt there -- kept there because of macedonia allows refugees from

syria, iraq and afghanistan. southeast asia nations or at least people from southeast asia nations are gathering in the thai capitol to talk about that region's growing refugee problems and suggestion put forward for the five countries most effected by it thailand, indonesia, malaysia and myanmar and bangladesh and details of the proposed were scant but it is thought it would push for an increase in the prosecution of people smugglers. >> a time for promises has passed and now is the time for action. therefore it's my hope that today's discussion will result in a concrete and goal oriented actions that countries can start implementing, not in the same or long distance in the future but today and now. >> reporter: security in the afghan city of kunduz is effecting businesses and taliban

seized it in september and hement it for two weeks and the government is back in control and people who left their homes by and large are too scared to go back and al jazeera's jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: in the sent of the of kunduz city this owner is struggling to make a living because this city was under taliban control for two weeks back in september and october. >> translator: because of the insecurity in kunduz rich people left the city and particularly the youth, 70% of young people have left and not here any more. >> reporter: he still gets a few customers at lunch and early evening his working day has been cut by six hours and used to stay open until midnight, 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 it's government and some

areas no government. >> reporter: while the government now controls the center of the city the taliban isn't far and it has villages a few kilometers outside the city and shops are open but many other businesses are not. >> translator: there were people who were working, making money and spending money but now they have no offices, no work and everything collapsed and offices closed and rich people 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. most construction projects are halted with no prospect that 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 the city won't fall again and why they stopped investing and the poor people cannot find work. >> reporter: in a country that survived 40 years of war afghans

have learned to be resourceful and the taliban's capture of the first city since it was removed from power in 2001 made people nervous here and they're concerned that kunduz may never be the same again, jennifer glasse al jazeera kabul. report this with a number of caveats and only getting this regarding the san bernardino shooting from a news agency which supports the aims of i.s.i.l., islamic state and that news agency is reporting a suggestion and assertion from i.s.i.l. that it was behind the shootings of those 14 people in san bernardino. there is no proof, there is no suggestion yet from the authorities in the united states either from the police or from the f.b.i. that this is the case or those certain assertions from the u.s. authorities about terrorist motives have been put forward in the last 24 hours but i am adding to that the claims and counterclaims and

suggestions that are out there, a news agency which supports the aims of i.s.i.l. said i.s.i.l. was behind the attacks in san bernardino. 700 mayors from cities around the world have been discussing local environment solutions at the paris summit and convening to talk about climate change and together they represented about 600 million people. well, the role of nuclear energy in limiting greenhouse gas emissions has been the focus of some debate in paris and nuclear energy is proven as a low carbon technology and many of as you is a key part in countries helping limit carbon emissions and the united states is the largest provider of nuclear power and about to open a new one in more than 20 years and a site in tennessee opened up the long debate of harvesting the power

of the atom. >> here it's about the fish that concerns these locals but not the watch bar one nuclear plant that has been providing carbon free electricity to the region for a generation, soon its twin watch bar two will go online, the first u.s. commercial nuclear reactor completed in the 21st century. after delays and post fukushima safety upgrades that doubled the initial cost estimate to more than $4 billion but officials of the government owned utility that built it say they have for regrets. >> nuclear is clean and second only to hydro in cost. it's a smart choice for changing times and a sound business decision. >> reporter: nuclear power is having a difficult passage in a country which first developed it for peaceful as well as military purposes, while watch bar two is one of five u.s. atomic plants und under construction, five others have closed in the past five

years and utilities have plans to shut down eight more saying more regulations, softening demand and competition from natural gas have made them unprofitable and also blade the antinuclear movement and despite reactor designs points to catastrophes like chernoble and fukushima. >> is this the kind of gamble we want to take in order to boil water when there are so many other superior ways to meet our energy needs. >> reporter: polls indicate that most americans do favor more nuclear plants as does the obama administration and it's backed by some climate activists who see nuclear as an important element in the fight against fossil fuels and climate james hanson says ruling out nuclear power would worsen the prospects for climate warming. >> there is plenty of gas in the country and if we go down the route of renewables plus gas we

will lock in gas and guaranty our children and grandchildren get a climate situation that is out of their control. >> reporter: while the u.s. hesitates india and china power on with their own programs for harnessing the atom to carve a path to energy independence, spring city, tennessee. supreme court in brazil rejected appeal to block dil dil and a -- dilma-rouseff and is facing charges. >> the congress in brazil is now debating the future of impeachment against rousseff and the president of the lower house is leading the campaign. >> informing you mrs. president if you want to express yourself you have a period of ten

sessions starting with the election of the special committee, that is investigation and impeachment proceeding. >> reporter: for hours they read the formal accusation against the president and started creating a multi-party commission that will define the next steps and rousseff accused of using money from banks for budget gaps and pay for plans and is struggling with weak popularity caused by the current economic situation in brazil but also because of a corruption scandal because of the company and politicians. now she has to fight and impeachment effort by a political vote who has managed to get the support of the opposition behind him. from the ruling workers party the accusations are unfounded. he says he is facing several corruption allegations himself

is sticking with it. >> translator: it is obvious that this is a retaliation. on the same day edward decided to move the i'm impeachment procedure with what is against him. >> reporter: this is beginning of what is a long complicated process and on the streets of brazil there is mixed feelings of what is going on in brazil. >> translator: i think popular opinion is much more against than in favor, the country is in the middle of enormous and political crisis and at the same time so this is necessary. >> reporter: and making mistakes in the government and people need to make her pay in the next three years of her term on the streets protesting and not throwing her out. >> reporter: accusations against rousseff swept brazil in a crisis and nobody here seems

to know what the turnout is going to be like, brazil. we have sport coming up, in just a moment, we have joe with that and reporting on how one hockey had an extremely close shave in the nhl.

that was by magic and here is joanne with the sport. >> david thank you, rual madrid thrown out of spain cup

competition for fielding an ineligible player and russian winger scored a goal in the three-home win of the round of 32 and he was meant to be serving a one-game suspension from last season when he was at rial and they say they will appeal the ban. one candidate hoping to be chosen as fifa's next president defended the governing body following the latest round of arrest and charged 16 more people with corruption on thursday as part of an ongoing investigation and they told al jazeera sports correspondent lee weldings that the incidents in the americas should not reflect on the work being done at fifa. >> what happened with the resent arrests whether in may or yesterday are related to the considerations of the americas and has nothing to do with fifa. when we talk about fifa as an organization the staff i don't think there is any fifa official

within fifa has been found guilty of a wrongdoing. nobody is talking about other sports, the focus is always on fifa. in fact, there is a microscope and looking at activities and if they look at others they are much worse. two fifa vice police have been suspended 90 days and seeking to extradite south america chief and the head of north american football and those in the game they have also expressed concern over the situation at fifa. >> it's very difficult for people who are inside our game that we are governed by bodies who are not straight and i hope that all these people will get out of football and it shows but you have a need to rebuild

completely this organization and get people you can trust. >> there have been problems too in argentina and elections for a new president there ended in chaos, 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 faces in argentina, lorenzo and the old the acting president of the argentina futbol association and for many years wes was close to the former chief and he ran futbol for 35 years until his death last year and a fifa vice president and close to many of those being charged and detained by the u.s. authorities and those to fall with part of the south american federation and the top man from the northern central american body and both arrested at a swiss hotel as

fifa met to try to put its house in order. but there is corruption in latin american futbol and no surprise to the millions of long suffering fans here, what is new is that 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 but are they or is this just for show? a tied vote and ballot paper and confusion and he has been investigating corruption in latin american futbol for years. >> translator: a trend e merging here when one is arrested he confesses and another one gets arrested and ends up giving more information, the original f.b.i. report says all the top officials are taking bribes. >> reporter: argentina continues to produce great players and great teams around the world futbol is hostage to violent fans and corrupt and he

was ahead of the club the juniors and understands better than most the need to work closely whoever emerges with the argentina futbol association where futbol politics and business are inseparable, daniel in buenos aires. cycling is emerging from crisis after doping scandal and the current tour de france is helping cleanup the image and british rider released test results to show he doesn't use performance enhancing drugs and suggested huge weight loss could explain the rise from 2007 when he won the tour in 2013 and 2015, during this year's race he was targeted by some fans who threw urine at him following accusations of doping. women's dennis number one serena williams appears to have a tough

time after cutting her season short and have not played competitive tennis after losing in the u.s. open in september and she has lost two days in a row and on friday she was beat by a player ranked 80 places below her in the world and serena's team did win the best of five in counter. in the nhl the colorado avalanche beat the ny rankers but a scary moment in the second period when rich nash clipped eric johnsons visor and returned to the game and won 2-1 and that is the sport and back to david in london. >> thank you very much indeed and thanks to all the sports team there in doha. that is just about it from me and the team that brought you this news hour from london and thank you for watching, see you next time. good-bye. ♪

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