♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm in doha, coming up, in the next hour, venezuela opposition defeats the socialists in parliamentary elections for the first time in almost two decades. >> the threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it. >> barack obama says americans must not turn against each other in the face of adversity. as climate change enter their

final week we are the u.s. energy secretary as washington will throw its weight behind a meaningful deal. tourist attractions begin in sierra leone after the country is declared ebola free. ♪ we begin in venezuela where they have control of the national assembly and landslide victory is when nicholas admitted defeat but will remain in power and 74 turned out to carve their ballot and the highest in voting since the 1990 and election commission says some seats are yet to be counted but so far the opposition has won 99 seats and that is more than double those of the ruling party which has 46 seats so far.

there are 22 seats still to be declared. latin america editor reports from caraca. >> reporter: the ruling socialist party headquarters confirmed supporters nightmare as election results were announced. for the first time in nearly 17 years opponents of the nation's revolution succeeded in breaking the government's monopoly on democratic institutions winning majority in the national assembly, true to his word president maduro recognized his party's defeat. >> translator: we lost a battle today but the struggle to build socialism and a new society starts now and we should take this as a slap in the face to work us up so we can work towards the future. >> reporter: results should have come as no surprise and spiralling inflation and crime

and chronic shortages of basic goods and services have become too much for supporters of the revolution. >> translator: it's a total change, that's what i want because what we are putting up with is unbearable, intelligible and yous there and crime here and enough. >> reporter: with a legislative majority venezuela's opposition can set the congressional agenda and approve or up hold the national assembly and investigate public officials, in theory this would oblige the president to negotiate but only in theory. >> the government controls four of the five branches of the government and most importantly control the supreme court so the constitutional chamber of the supreme court can basically declare any of these laws unconstitutional. >> reporter: but opposition also has other options including

organizing a recall referendum against the president. >> translator: if the government does not change its attitude we will have to change the government. >> reporter: another indication that more political confrontation lies ahead. in a normal democracy the division of powers is considered healthy but in a country as politically polarized as venezuela convincing foes to build a consensus and work together for the common good does seem like a long shot, al jazeera, caracus. >> hand over of legislative power in venezuela is yet another sign of a shift to the right across latin america and last month the left leaning president kristina was taken down and they will lose a powerful ally and the plan

replacing kirchner is a man who has installed a cabinet of technocrats and restoring economy. and in brazil there are moves to impeach maroosef on a scandal and record low approval and joining me is the norwegian network and now i just outlined what is happening in latin america is it fair to say we are seeing a shift away from the left in latin america? >> there is definitely a shift in latin america but i think it's a bit early to say it's a shift away from the left. we see that presidential approval ratings are plummeting across the region including chile and peru and they have

been associated with the left wing and they have followed very different policies from say venezuela and argentina. i think a lot of this is related to economic problems because of plummeting and also commodity prices, oil, gas and metal that have hurt perhaps particularly the left wing government because they have been supported by the four masses due to generous social skills and also like for example a country like brazil they have generated a lot of economic growth and made it possible also for the leads to gain and that is also narrowing with increasing economic problems and small growth. >> and people may want a political change to ensure economic progress but these countries are still in financial strife. do these voters have the patience to wait for an economic change? >> i think that any government

that would take over and now in venezuela there will not be a governmental shift at least not very soon but even if when they will have a right wing government in argentina and where there could be a change if say rouseff will be impeached it will be difficult for any government to come in so i do not think we will see a wave of right wing government, i think we will see a lot of political trouble, a lot of very difficult situations lying ahead of us in venezuela and ahead of us in argentina and still lying ahead of us in countries like brazil. >> we have been touching on the economic problems of latin america, how much do you think local issues like fighting corruption have to do with this sea change that we are now starting to see? >> i think the corruption scandals have been very

important and it's sort of ironic because in one sense the fact that these corruption candle scandals come up is because democracy and rule of law is also making headway in brazil and it would never have come up if the government had not started the corruption investigation and also in chile so i think that has been important but it has shown and kind of kicked down from sort of a pedestal and many left wing leaders leaders of social movement and seen very new and representing something completely different from the old often corrupt elite and many have behaved like regular politicians and did not bring corruption in the latin america political systems but has been rapid corruption and i think it's also corruption is also worse when there is a lot of money flowing into state coffers

and into the economy and that is what has happened over the last decade and i think corruption is real important and also shows that latin america and voters are demanding more now and they are used to democracy and are used to being able to monitor their politicians and they just won't stick up with what they have seen over the last years. >> it all comes down to accountability, doesn't it, that is great getting your insight and thank you so much from the norwegian lateralic american research network. foreign minister accused the u.s. led coalition conducting a strike on an army base killing three soldiers and four took part in the raid in deir ezzor and written to the security council condemning of what it describes as aggression by the united states and united states said it did conduct air strikes against oil facilities on sunday

but it did not target vehicles or personnel in the area. meanwhile hundreds of syrian rebels preparing to pull out of the city of homs as part of a ceasefire deal and buses took the first group of fighters out of the area, it is the last rebel stronghold in the strategic city under control of government forces over the last few years and the agencies have now been allowed in and let's get more from the head of political affairs for the u.n. special envoy to syria and staffan de mistura joins us from skype from the hague and now this ceasefire is being held as a test case for other possible ceasefires across syria and eventual solution to the syrian conflicts as well, are you just as optimistic over the deal establishing a long-term solution to syria's conflict. >> if i could start with a corruption former head of

affairs and not the current one. regarding this specific ceasefire i think it's important to note that it reflects the particular circumstances in one neighborhood of one city and it can be seen as the completion of a prior agreement that was reached in early 2014 that the syrian government and rebel forces and in the city of homs and therefore i think it's very much open for question what we are now seeing in the district of homs can be replicated on a significantly broader scale throughout syria. what you had here was a situation of a prolonged siege of a neighborhood and what appears to be an agreement by all or at least most of the armed opposition fighters to are draw from the neighborhood in exchange of the delivery of humanitarian aid and normalization of the situation in that district and many other

places where they have sufficient standing and the position not to have to agree to evacuate and that is obviously not going to serve as a model for them. >> now, once the rebels do leave homs, the city will of course be under government control, do you see this perhaps as being significant in the establishment of a longer term or long-term ceasefire and resolution so the syrian war? >> well, again, we are speaking about only one neighborhood and one city and according to press reports there are also different interpretations of what exactly has been agreed according to one version, all armed opposition fighters will with draw and government, the syrian government will be able to return to that district but only the police force and not the army according to another version.

only those opposition fighters who have not agreed to abide by the ceasefire will withdrawal from it while others will maintain their control of it but i think that's quite unlikely but again i think the more pertinent point is that in areas on the one hand the arms opposition groups have no incentive to withdraw because they retain sufficient power on the ground and the other where you have syrian government that is now engaging in a very significant military offensive supported by russian air power and allied malitia particularly the northwest syria seems very unlikely that what we have seen in this one neighborhood can be replicated on a significantly broader scale let alone nationally. >> we are going to have to leave it there and thank you for joining us, former head of

political affairs for the office of the special envoy for syria. u.s. president barack obama has vowed to defeat terrorism and destroy i.s.i.l. and his rare televised address came in the wake of wednesday's mass shooting in california which 14 people died and a white house correspondent patty reports. >> on wednesday 14 americans. >> reporter: the back drop the oval office and this is the third time that u.s. president barack obama has used the setting for a national address meant to send a message of seriousness after the attacks in california that left 14 dead and investigators looking into whether the killers were inspired by the i.s.i.s. and levante and says he has the authority to defeat the group. >> the threat of terrorism is real but we will overcome it. >> reporter: having a tough time and according to polls 57% disapprove how he handles i.s.i.l. and others say the effort is going badly and 60%

say it's time to send more troops into iraq and syria, his strategy is facing serious criticism from republican candidates. >> change your strategy, come up with a ground force to go in and destroy them before we get hit here at home. >> reporter: the president had criticism for u.s. congress saying it's time for new gun control legislation. that is unlikely. just last week the senate voted down a bill that would keep people on the no fly list from buying weapons. president obama also urged americans not to frame this as a war against islam. >> that too is what groups like i.s.i.l. want, i.s.i.l. does not speak for islam. they are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. and they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. >> reporter: before the speech hundreds of advocates rallied

outside the white house to send a similar message. >> the basic thing is to make the world realize that the terrorism that they are seeing not only domestically but internationally is not representative of islam. >> reporter: the president using the speech from the oval office calming fears to show americans he has the strategy to defeat i.s.i.l. because after the speech it's clear he is not going to change it, patty in washington. stay with us on this news hour and still to come on this program the far right french national front makes big gains in the first electoral test since the paris attacks. and the rainbow nation goes green and look at how south africa is looking to replace coal with wind and liverpool's new manager calls for calm after the hopes for a top four finish suffer a setback and details coming up, a little later in sport. ♪

they will go to the u.n. security council if turkey doesn't withdraw the forces base near mosul and says it violated sovereignty and turkey maintains it was invited by the local government to train fighters and prime minister has promised not to send any more soldiers but stopped short of ordering a withdraw. the two rival governments have a deal of resolving the political crisis as a huge leap forward and the national congress and the internationally recognized government in tobruk will hold elections in two years and it will end the violence that split libya since it was over thrown in 2011 and has hurdles including the rival department and libya analyst and should not

intervene. >> don't want to be optimistic but it looks good and the reason is it has the support of people the street. there has been some level of grass root movement to honor and up hold a constitution that was established for libya in 1951 and amended in 63 so i believe the meeting that took place between the two parties has that in the center of their thinking going forward to establish the committee of ten, hopefully get a right prime minister and the two deputies moving forward and i think what we need now is the support of the united nations. only support. and a process by which the libyans can actually exercise their some level of constitutionality to form a

legislative body hopefully not two years and i think it should be shorter than two years and hopefully get a very good process moving forward. i do also call on the united states to actually support this process, endorse it, but enfortunately i would want to have jonathan weiner who is actually not -- has not done a good job and the envoy for this libyan process to basically resign or no hand in it because he has done a very poor job. flood waters beginning to recede in the city and shortages of food, drinking water and shelter for those homeless from the flooding and as we report health workers are increasingly concerned about the spread of disease. >> reporter: the few household items and the flood waters are there and prepares a meal for her family and it is not much but better than nothing and the past week she struggled to find

the basics to keep her family alive. >> translator: when the floods came suddenly we ran out for safety, the first floor was submerged and the water kept rising to the second floor and i have been wearing this sorrie for the past five days and everything washed away and don't know how to continue our life and the future is a question mark. >> reporter: power restored in surrounding areas but until the lights come only all he can do is wait, his home is dark and damp, the perfect breeding ground by disease and the dangers are growing by the day but says no one has answered his call for help. >> translator: nobody from the ruling or opposition parties has visited us and the water was rising and we scream for help and no one came. >> reporter: flood waters have receded in this neighborhood but residents still have a lot to

worry about. piles of rubbish and fears that water sources are contaminated are raising concerns of possible outbreaks of illness. rain continues to threaten this city's recovery but where they can communities are beginning to cleanup. >> translator: we are to the government to immediately provide basic amenities like drinking water and milk and must cleanup the gary bilge and living condition, the government has to conduct regular medical camps and for the people who lost millions in the flood we urge the government to estimate the loss and compensate at least half of it. >> reporter: for nearly a week millions of people have waded through the waters and destruction of the river bank is a reminder of how bad things were and while the worst may be behind the people drier conditions have brought with them more desperate times.

al jazeera, new deli. the final week of talks to reach a global deal to tackle climate change has begun in paris and ministers are facing days of tough negotiations and a draft agreement that was approved over the weekend, they are aiming to reduce global warming by cutting dependence on fossil fumes for greenhouse gasses and joining us from paris is the secretary and thank you for being with us and a lot riding on the summit and a draft text of the final deal is being considered but by all accounts much of the text is being debated and how confident are you that a consensus will be reached by this friday? >> well, i think we are actually quite optimistic and first of all we should recognize that having 184 countries come in with targets is really a tremendous platform for the final discussions that will address important issues

differentiation, transparency, reporting on progress, of course finance and these are all critical issues but i think there is strong will to converge and have a strong agreement coming out of paris. >> having a strong will and having the right pledges is one thing and it's another thing to actually connect the pledges and promises and we do know that president obama clean energy plan hases toel republican opposition in congress as well as in the senate. how seriously then can the international community take america's climate change pledges? >> well, first of all, i want to emphasize that the president's climate action plan which he issued in 2013 is being followed. it is based upon executive authorities and we are executing the plan. we have strong provisions for vehicle efficiencies to lower

emissions and we have a very strong clean power plan for our electricity plants so i really want to emphasize this is going forward. >> it certainly does seem to be going forward and you seem very optimistic about it but however at the end of this week once an agreement is reached at this summit a consensus has been agreed to and you go home and you then set these pledges out to congress and to the senate, a very hostile republican congress and senate and will try to oppose these plans so really what will america achieve? >> well, again, you are certainly correct that there are some members of the congress who are very much opposed to our moving forward, however, first of all the american people have moved strongly to a statement that we need to address climate change and ultimately congress responds to the people. we have military and religious

leaders and our business all stating that we need to address climate in our business and labor in particular, they want certainty to understand how to go forward and finally i will repeat our plan is based upon authorities that we have and we are executing the plan, plain and simple. >> what about the other super powers and let's say china, india and also known to be some of the bigger emitters of unclean gasses, what about them and they made pledges as well and the question is how will they be held responsible for their actions and will there be any indications for those who do not live up to their pledges? >> well, first of all i want to emphasize that a major theme emphasized here in paris on the very first day by the leaders of 20 countries including the united states and china and india and france our host and obviously 16 others is a

commitment to drive innovation, to drive investments, in fact, an international coalition of investors was put together so all of these countries are committed to that. secondly we do have a strong commitment so let's take china, china not only announced together with the united states its commitment over one year ago so even in september they announced a new cap and trade system going forward so they are taking steps with strong regulations and we are hoping the agreement in paris will also include verification measures and will require we hope a regular review of our commitment so that we can make them even more ambitious and that is still to be determined this week but over all i believe that the united states, china, are certainly have shown very strong commitments to reaching their

nationally determined targets. >> great getting you on the show, thank you so much for speaking with us, they are the u.s. secretary of energy. stay with the issue of climate change and global warming richard is here to tell us about severe weather, severe flooding in the uk. >> that is right now i was going to give you a straight story of the weather in uk but seeing that piece we've got record-breaking flooding in the uk, 2015, it has broken records which were setback in 2009 so a space of six years we are seeing records broken and span way back in the 19th century so something isn't quite right as far as weather is concerned. let's look at the flooding i'm talking about and uk and particularly northwestern parts and the place of cambria and have seen vast amounts and 7 1/2 thousand properties without

power, we have got more than 45 severe flood warnings still in force across the region and this is all due to this one storm which effected the uk and wind gusts in excess of 130 kph and rainfall is 340 millimeters of rain in 24 hours which is up in the lake district high up and the record has to confirm but it beats the record in 1,0009 and also in cambria and the flood defense is completely overwhelmed. this is the situation at the moment and risk of rain and pushed on through and you can see this and looks nasty but won't add a great deal to the situation before we got there. nevertheless it's going to take quite sometime for the rivers to gradually clear up, the rest of europe enjoying relatively quiet weather conditions with an area of high and low pressure giving nasty weather through the sea and it's dry and lovely sunshine to contrast the uk here.

>> richard thanks very much still ahead here on al jazeera how sailors are protecting themselves against pirates in one of the most important waterways in asia and bubba watson has a day to remember as a hero world challenge in the bahamas and the details coming up. ♪

♪ welcome back to the news hour on al jazeera and quick reminder of our top stories and venezuela opposition has triumphed over

the socialists winning control of the assembly and a right wing victory has a mark of the late leader chaves and u.s. killed three soldiers in an air strike on a military base and written to the u.n. security council condemning what it calls aggression and the u.s. however denies any involvement. u.s. energy secretary has told al jazeera his government's plan to fight climate change is going ahead, governments are under pressure to reach a global deal at talks in paris which are now in their final week. france's far right has achieved a record vote in regional elections, early results show that the national front party received at least 30% of the vote. center right republicans led by former president nicholas are in second place with 27%. president francois hollande socialist party is trailing in third place with 22% of the vote

and jackie roland reports now from paris. >> reporter: jubilation at headquarters and the front is the leading party after the first round of voting and she personally has swept the board in her northern stronghold with more than 40% of the votes. it's a political landslide and she is savering the moment. >> translator: the people have spoken and with them france raises its head once again. this vote confirms what earlier elections announced but it's what the official observers still don't want to admit, the national front is now without doubt the first-party of france. >> reporter: close behind the national front are the republicans, led by the former president nicholas sarcozi and had words of warning for people who voted for the national

front. >> translator: i want to tell those who made that choice that we can hear their worries and they won't obtain any answer from a party who is proposal for dramatically worse situation and create the conditions of dangerous disorders in their regions and their country. >> reporter: the socialist ledder president francois hollande has seen his personal approval ratings jump since the paris attacks last month but that popularity doesn't seem to extend to his party. the socialists are trailing and they say they will withdrawal from the second round in the north and the southeast. for now the national front is celebrating but this was only round one and the turnout was low at 50%. the second and decisive rounds will take place in one week's time. we will go to jackie roland who

joins us from paris and jackie take us through some of the reaction in france to the news of the national front's victory. >> well, no surprise what is on the front page of all the newspapers here in france today and i'm going to give you a whirlwind tour of a newspaper in paris and the headline the national doors at the front of power and pictures there of la-penn in the middle and the woman on the left is a person with the penn party stressing which the party is focused on the la-penn family and moving to a left leaning newspaper which has a head line it's coming in a an editorial is essentially calling for tactical voting in the next round on sunday saying faith between the right or the extreme right, leftist should

vote for what it described as the least or the lesser of two elves and n elv elv elves -- evils and then this is a right-leaning newspaper that tends to support the republican party of president sarcozi and analysis and what we are looking at is proof that france is moving away from a two-party system towards a three-party system. >> now jackie all eyes are on the second round next week, what is the likelihood the national front will repeat its overnight success? >> well, this is where the tactical voting which we already heard, the left leaning newspaper calling for, this is where it really kicks in where voters may choose not necessarily to vote for their preferred candidate but they may choose to vote for the candidate

who they feel is best place to prevent the national front from coming into power, there was a precedent for this in the presidential elections of 2002 where there was a shake up, a shock in the second round we saw a right candidate versus a far right candidate and you saw socialist voters flocking to the right candidate to block the far right candidate and could be the kind of scenario we see again. however, having heard la-penn giving a news conference this woman she is very confident and says in the past people have dismissed her party. she spoke about the socialist and said it collectively is committing suicide because already in three regions the socialists have said they are going to drop out of the contest. she was looking very confident and obviously she has done very well and her party has done very well in the first round and it really depends on whether voters decide they do want to entrust

the national front with the opportunity, some might say the liability of actually running the regions or whether when faced really with the decision some of the people who didn't bother to go and vote on sunday might actually come out on the second round to stop the national front from gaining control of those councils or at least try to stop them gaining control of all of the councils that they are currently set very much in the lead with the hope they have of winning next sunday. >> jackie thank you, jackie roland there on france's far right there and their victory in regional elections. now business is booming for armed security firms employed to protect cargo from pirates in southeast asia and it's widespread in the strait after relative calm and on the second part of the series on pirates we report from singapore.

>> reporter: armed guards to put the ships against pirates and security companies are flushishing because of the number of hijackings at seas and they are locked in the waters and a security company says it regularly provides armed guards to shipping companies. >> easily about 55-60% in vicinity where we are traveling south of singapore towards the virgin islands or away from the singapore island to the south china sea. >> ship owner knows the threat very well. and his oil tankers have been hijacked by armed pirates in three times in resent years. >> it's happening every two weeks and we are concerned and have started our own what do you call this sop and how to deter this. >> the ship owner is reluctant to carry armed guards and relies

on the navy to protect the ships and yous but navy commanders say they should be more alert. >> zero policy and therefore i request all to please observe the good practices and should they have any suspicious contact approaching you, at any time, day or night, we must be alerted. >> reporter: the site armed guards are offering equipment to scare off pirates with sound or water. patrols have been stepped up but not allowed to enter each other's territory. and joint patrols are seen as an important solution to combat piracy in southeast asia experts say the biggest problem lies on the land and indonesia and malaysia and here in singapore

where pirate syndicates face arrest and they detained a suspect after a malaysia ship was hijacked but sources in indonesia says a singapore man is yet to be arrested and people in singapore have not responded to questions from al jazeera. >> perhaps singapore wants to deny that its citizens or its residents may necessarily be involved in piracy activity and financial sector in singapore is very strong and very quite influential and it's always been slightly atonomous with the singapore government and reluctance to open up the pandora's box. >> reporter: lack of law enforcement and reluctance to share information with indonesia and malaysia creates fear and thousands of sailors who pass

through southeast asia everyday, al jazeera, singapore. nepal two million who lost their homes in earthquake earlier this year still waiting for help and rebuilding has been delayed after political parties cannot agree on who should head the reconstruction authority, now the government thinks it has found a way forward and we report now from kathmandu. >> reporter: on the edge of kathmandu he and his wife make a small amount of money by preparing wool for knitting and he lost six members of his family during the quake when his house fell and seven months after the quake he is angry and rejected. >> translator: those who died have died. how are we going to survive? we have no hope from the government. they only take care of themselves but this government and the one before, there is no reconstruction. before we got some relief and it

too has stopped. >> reporter: more than 70 people died in this village and 800 houses were damaged and people have been told they are no longer allowed to take refuge on government land and people here face additional expense of renting land to build item temporary shelter. they were supposed to fast track rebuilding and $4 billion by the international community cannot be spend but allocated more than $700 million reconstruction this year but that has not been spent either and saying the national planning commission will be responsible for spending the money. ahead of the planning commission says it will play a temporary role to get moving. >> existing programs and budgets by the government and since there is no utility at the moment and $91 billion which was

ear marked for work would not be materialized so our job has been to get those programs approved by the minister and ask them to implement them themselves. >> reporter: those working with quake victims are getting earn canned and bureaucratic and corruption there is little transparency of when the project will finally receive their funding and she has been raising funds from friends and family and distributing relief since the quake. >> translator: i've not seen reconstruction work any where. in the mountains people are suffering from the cold and need food, clothes and blankets and children are getting sick let alone reconstruction and some received no relief. >> reporter: some donor agencies that we talked to said they already spending their money without the government and while the government has been focusing on political deadlocks quake victims who lost everything they owned are beginning to lose hope as well. al jazeera, kathmandu.

former u.s. president jimmy carter says he is free of cancer months after revealing he has a disease and 91-year-old most resent brain scan did not show the cancer spots or any new ones and the nobel peace prize winner said cancer has been detected in his liver in his brain earlier. many people in south africa have to deal with rolling power cults and a new way of trying to address the energy crisis is getting underway and harry reports. >> reporter: the wind turbines are hard to miss and hope if more go up it could help address the energy crisis and they experience rolling blackouts known as low chilling and heavily dependent on fossil fuels like coal.

>> not doing enough with the coal generating almost 90% is by coal and this is where where we have unexploded renewable energy in the country that can be used to mitigate climate change. >> reporter: developers of this wind farm project have signed a 20-year contract with the state-owned power company and this wind farm outside port elizabeth have 21 turbines and enough to power 30,000 medium-sized homes and port elizabeth is the windy city and makes it the perfect place to build wind farms and electricity produces by the wind is cleaner and ultimately better for the environment. a percent of the profits go into a community trust that decides what families needs like healthcare, education and the solar powered water heaters.

the local youth center is also being maintained with money from some of the wind farm profits and children from poor communities have a safe place to play and learn a new sport. >> the kids go away from their homes because there is no home and they come to the projects so that you know they can be better people than staying in the misery at home of not having the things that all kids need. >> reporter: wind energy cost 5 u.s. cent per kilowatt and half of coal pair and they said to expect more of these popping up in the country and could still take a while but hope these large turbines become part of the landscape, al jazeera, port elizabeth. ahead on al jazeera after being attacked by a shark the pro surfer is in the news again

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♪ now that sierra leone has been declared ebola free businesses like hotels and restaurants are hoping that they will be busy once again. and we report now from an animal sanctuary in the capitol free town which has just reopened. >> reporter: they are intelligent, playful and don't mind posing for the camera, locals and tourists from around the world visited the sanctuary for orphans and abandon chimps that closed down for safety during ebola crisis and walking

a fine line for survival after losing $100,000 and since reopening visitor numbers have fallen more than half and sierra leone was developing a stronger tourist with this sanctuary as one of the attractions. >> they spend money to fly to come into the country so government in one way of the other through taxes generates revenue there. >> reporter: the falling tourism is estimated to cost the government $11 million and visitors are slowly returning. >> think we can learn from them and genetically close to us obviously and very endangered and it's important that there are sanctuaries in places like this where people can come and learn about them. >> reporter: that's part of the goal of the sanctuary, educating people about conserving chimps. during the 1970s it was

estimated there were about 20,000 chimps in sierra leone and that number has drastically declined and now esmated mated about 5 1/2 thousand and they were kept as illegally for pets or food and said do not eat bush meat since the ebola crisis and creative ways are thinking of ways to bounce back, free town, sierra leone. time for sports. >> thank you very much liverpool manager called for calm after his team's second defeat in the season with him in charge and beaten two-nil and liverpool could have been on points with fifth place but now stay in seventh place and new castle move above the rivals into 18 and liverpool they believe his team will bounce back.

>> everything usually is okay, this team the quality we know and like to work together and that is all true but today we are even and cannot ignore this and cannot go on and say okay no problem and if in professional futbol do not feel defeat or lose and say it's like this then something is really wrong and defeat is defeat and we know it's for that but it hurts like it should be. >> reporter: also points for a couple of relagation and stood up against the third skull and anthony nailed it who is clear of the drop zone in 15th and they are second from bottom. golf bub by watson won the challenge in the bahamas and it was made by tiger woods and because of surgery he had to watch from the sidelines and it

had a purse of $3 1/2 million and watson was the leader and remained in control in the rounds and seven birthtys and six under 66 and world number one spieth who is the defending champion finished five shots behind in fourth place and there it goes. australia mark has clinched the trophy in 3 1/2 years binning the challenge after the country club at sun city and the leader shot four birdies on the back nine and had six strokes and the last win was 2012 at the travelers championship and is the first success and pockets $1.52 million in prize money. >> the win on the pga tour was exciting and i finished so early it didn't really feel like i won to be honest. two hours and just wanted to walk up and enjoy it and that

was a lot of fun especially everything that has gone on this year family wise, it has been a rough year and to finish it off this way has been fun. >> won the fourth and final test and looked like south africa had done enough to have a draw they lost five wickets and won by 337 runs and taking five for 671. 61, for decades they have a polarized upon and talking about tokyo 21 games and had to be scrapped on allegations it had been copied and to choose a new logo will close on monday and hoped to end at least one embarrassing chapter for japan's olympic committee and we report from tokyo. >> reporter: since the victory in the bidding process and showing that japan could rebound

from the 2011 triple disaster and a series of missteps and one involved a logo with a graphic artist in belgium who sued the tok tok tokyo logo for a belgium theatre and scrapped and open to everyone over the age of 18 to submit an alternative and thousands of submissions among the favorites that people have seen are the initial candidate city logo of cherry blossoms and one by a chinese graphic artist showing an opening fan, it's not clear whether those two are in the competition but the submissions will be evaluated in early january and narrowed down and selection to be made and the bigger problem is the site itself for the stadium and he was spectacular but it swelled

to double and it was scrapped by the japanese prime minister and we still don't have a final decision. it's expected that will be decided on by the end of this year and ground broken on construction of the stadium by early 2017 but already an important deadline has been missed and the rugby cup to take place in 2019 won't have the center piece stadium as a result. one piece of good news is tokyo government has part of the funding totalling the estimated $1.3 billion. super g and a sweep of races for the third time in her career, lindsey vonn won both down hill in canada for the hat trick and as you are about to hear rather pleased with

herself. two times she won and accomplished this back in 2011 and 2012. >> now four months after being attacked by a shark and two days before he became world champion he was rescuing a fellow surfer and they were surfering the pipeline surf break in hawaii and pulled in a barrel and smashed his head on a reef knocking him unconscious and he was helped out of the water and this one is hero after reviving the american and he is currently in stable condition in hospital. now just a few hours away from that the big wave high challenge in maui has been taking place and wipe out is the order of the day as the break commonly known as jaws, wonder why, has waves between 12-15 meters.

and won the main event in hawaii beating some of the world's big wave surfers and good there were no more injuries. supplies rocketing towards the international space station. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: it is the first time in months the u.s. has sent a shipment after bad weather caused delays and the capsule is due to arrive at the space station on wednesday. the president of the rocket mayor united launch alliance tweeted santa is on his way. and space enthusiasts can bid for 250 rare extra terrestrial rocks and thought to be up to 4.5 billion years old. that is the news. stay with us for more. ♪

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