london next. >> this is al jazeera. venezuela's election victory. and smog in beijing as the paris climate talks move up a gear.

i.s.i.l. is threatening to tear up somalia. >> robin "forrester-walker here. declared ebola-free. >> washington has denied accusations by syria's government that air strikes by the u.s. led coalition hit one of its army camps. a large presence of fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. syria's calling it an act of aggression, these would be the first coalition strikes to hit

syrian force he. rosiland jordan in washington, d.c, what more information are they giving? >> reporter: what they're saying is that they did carry out air strikes in darazurur province on sunday but against oil well heads, about 55 kilometers from where the u.s. coalition believe syrian military forces are stationed. so they suggest there isn't any credibility to the syrian allegations that the u.s. air coalition attacked the syrian military, much less killed three of the soldiers and injured upwards of a dozen or more others. the coalition is saying, however, that if they do get any credibility allegations, that any people were -- credible allegations they will investigate but they don't think that happened because they don't believe the syrian charge is credible. >> obviously, the u.s. led

coalition is against i.s.i.l. and so is russia for example and bashar al-assad. but apart from that different aims. so just remind us why is it so important for the u.s. to say that it wasn't going after the syrian army? >> reporter: well, the obama administration has been very clear from the beginning that the syrian civil war needs to be resolved not through using the military, but through diplomacy, through negotiations, that those are supporters of bashar al-assad the president and those opposed to saud's government need to sit down and work out ending the civil war which has been going on for more than four and a half years. now that said the u.s. has been leading this air coalition against i.s.i.l. which basically moved into syria in the middle of 2014, it's been carrying out these air strikes without the syrian government's permission. however the syrian military has not gotten in the u.s. and the

coalition's way as it were and the u.s. basically wants to keep 38th way because it doesn't want the civil war on the one hand to be conflated or tied in in any way with the anti-i.s.i.l. air strikes because that could lead to a much bigger confrontation, one which the u.s. does not want to have with syria. it still does have diplomatic ties with damascus, even though neither has an ambassador in the other country as of right now. >> rosiland jordan with the latest from washington, d.c, roz, thank you. pulling out of the city of homs, the city has been under a siege of government forces for more than two years. osama ben javad has more. >> for these children the arrival of this truck means food and rations. it's taken months but humanitarian aid has finally

arrived in var, a besieged city in the province of homs. the opposition had to seven the ceasefire deed from the government in order to allow the aid to be delivered. president bashar al-assad's forces have denied they are deliberately starving the people out of homs. >> there is no bread, our children are dying of hunger. >> it's been a catastrophic humanitarian situation. the regime has been besieging the neighborhoods for four months. there's been a severe lack of food bread and medical supplies. you can see the children are happy. we thank god after four tough months the aid has reached us. >> reporter: the syrian military has been monitoring the situation from var and its positions on the ground. this is not the first time a

truce has been reached in homs, a truce last february allowed the civilians to leave the var neighborhood through a seven corridor. var was the last opposition led area since the government took control of most parts last year. very little or no guarantees for safe passage, humanitarian aid and evacuation. an estimated 200,000 people many of them who fled from other parts used to live in var. they aren't sure how long it will last, osama ben javad, al jazeera. >> if turkey doesn't withdraw its forces near mosul, turkey maintains it was invited by the local government to train fighters. it's promised not to send any more soldiers but has stopped short of actually ordering a

withdrawal. warring sides in yemen have agreed to hold peace talks in switzerland next week. the u.n. envoy says they will start december 15th. houthi rebels to respect the humanitarian ceasefire which is due to begin on that day as well. almost 60,000 people have died in the conflict since it started in march. the u.n. envoy says he's hopeful. >> we have a number of good signs that we will have this ceasefire including during my discussion with president hadi but the other two parties, everyone seems to be welcome the ceasefire. we know that the ceasefire may take us a little bit longer to put in place. >> coming up in this newshour, france's far right leader ridicules her mainstream rivals ouafter coming out on top.

we join the phil peen leader walk from rome to paris. in sport, the massive wipe out that could have claimed the life of a pro-sucher if it wasn't for the action he of one of his rivals. robin will have the details coming up. >> germany says it's taken in more than 960,000 refugees this year. four times as many as the year before. the lathest data doesn't include a breakdown of the nationality of the rivals. disappeared in mex mexico, stoppemexico,central american me targeted by mexico's ruthless cartels who are increasingly

kidnapping them for ransom or to act as drug mules. human rights commission reported that 10,000 migrants were abducted over a six month period. human rights activist reuben figueroa is head of the movement organizing the protest. >> translator: this is the 11th care van of mothers, from el salvador, honduras, nicaragua and other areas in south america,. >> venezuela's opposition party say they'll use their new majority in parliament to push through a political amnesty law and free jailed opponents of the government. the coalition of center right parties won more than twice the number of seats as the socialists in sunday's election. president nicholas maduro has conceded defeat calling the

results a slap in the face for his party. lucia newman reports from caracas. >> reporter: the expressions of venezuela's ruling socialist party headquarters quirmt confim worst nightmare. for the first time in nearly 17 years, opponents have succeeded in breaking the government's monopoly on democratic institutions winning a majority in the national assembly. true to his word, president nicholas maduro recognized his party's defeat. >> translator: we've lost a battle today but the struggle to build new socialism and a new society it starts now. we should take this as a slap in the face to wake us up so that we can work towards the future. the. >> reporter: the results should have come as no surprise spiraling inflation, crime and chronic shortages of basic goods and services had become too

much. even for many diehard supporters of the revolution. >> translator: it's a total change. that's what i want, because what we are putting up with is unbearable, intolerable cues here, cues there, crime everywhere, enough! >> for the legislative majorities, venezuela's can elect the president of the national assembly and investigate public officials. in theory, this would oblige the president to negotiate. but only in theory. >> because the government stills controls four of the five branches of the government. more importantly they control the supreme court. the supreme court, the constitutional chamber of the supreme court can basically declare any of these laws unconstitutional. >> reporter: but an emboldened opposition has other option he, including organizing a recall

against the government. >> 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 birth political foes to build a consensus and work together for the common good does seem like a long shot. lucia newman, al jazeera, caracas. >> south america's block of left wing governments dominant for more than a decade, maurice yo many macri won last month after 12 years of leftist rule under the kirchners. there'ss a push to impeach dilma rousseff in brazil.

and target of violent protest after congress improved the lifting of presidential short term limits last week. let's go live to caracas where virginia lopez, from what i understand, we are still waiting for some of the final results but at any rate after 17 years this is a huge shift for the country. >> yes, absolutely. and we've actually just heard from the opposition unofficially but the opposition is saying they did secure the supermajority, this is two-thirds of the national assembly. this would be huge and it is the first step in a massive rebalancing of power after 17 years of other rule, call for calm and for national unity. we've just heard from enrique capriles asking people to remain calm and united. this is what he had to say.

>> translator: we are willing to bring the country together. we are appealing for unity. there are still lines for food. there are still problems. those problems won't solve last night. this is the first step. we have to change direction with a naw national assembly which will do its job and defend venezuela. defend our nation. >> enrique capriles is being very honest, things won't be solved overnight. supermajority, what do you think they will do with it, what are the first objectives for the new government? >> reporter: it's unclear what they'll do at the economic front but they have said one of the first things they want to do is pass an am h amnesty law. allowing them to change key figures in the government like the supreme court and also the ombudsman. we can see definitely on the

political front a rebalancing of power that will eventually lead to several changes in the economic model. i'm not sure we can talk still about a devaluation or a seize of subsidies, this is something that the poor people in venezuela rely on. for now, a national reconciliation that is much needed in a society that had become deepl deeply divided. >> virginia lopez with the latest from caracas, thank you. let's go to another election now, marine la pen says french voters have rejectold class and put her party top. national front secured 28% of the vote, ahead of the center right republicans who have 27%. president francois hollande socialists trail with 23.5%.

jacky rowland has more from paris. >> reporter: the morning after the night before and marine le pen is in triumphant mood. her national party surged into the lead in six out of 13 regions. a success she predicts they will consolidate in the final vote next sunday. >> election after election, once again if you have some at lit cal capacities in connection with the people you realize there is no surprise in yesterday's results. this trust will continue to grow. i'm telling you the next time you won't be surprised either. prepare yourself psychologically. >> the national front has long been seen as a fringe party out on the extreme right of french politics. these results show that it is now a mainstream party with a chance of governing at least in

many regions. for many people this is that comes as a slok. >> i see more and more people are voting for national front. some almost ordinary, i think it's dreadful and it makes me very afraid. >> i think voting for the national front is a protest anymore. it's agreeing with them and the ideas they present. >> reporter: the big rulers will be the national front that be previously ruled in almost every front. an importan important question g nicholas sarkozy and the republican party would be to do a deal with the socialists. the answer it seems is no. >> we have been almost unanimous

in saying that we must not pull our candidates out of the race. first, because we've campaigned for weeks to denounce the bad governance of the regions by socialists and also to denounce the government's policies. >> reporter: voter apathy also played a part of these results. nearly half of the electorate didn't bother to go to the apologpolling places. jacky rowland, al jazeera, paris. >> the u.s. last announced 190 million in new financial assistance for ukraine. vice president joe biden promised the aid while on a visit to the capital kiev. encouraged the country's political leaders to approach reforms and tackle corruption. fourth year scale of china three

days of severe smog are expected, forcing schools to close and restrictions to be imposed on factories and traffic. all that comes as the paris talks to prevent further climate change are stepping up a gear. a draft tax needs to be finalized by 195 countries present. cutting fossil fuels, greenhouse gas. uns secretary-general ban ki-moou.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon states. >> more than half measures and incremental measures. it is calling for a transformative agreement. long term peace, stability and prosperity. the decisions you make here in paris will reverberate down through ages. the eyes of the world are upon you. seven billion people want to

know that you the world leaders, political leaders have their interests at heart and those of their children. >> well, as those talks enter their second week, a new report has revealed that global greenhouse gas transmissions are liable to stall oring stop, researchers say it is largely due to a drop in coal consumption by china as well as more renewables and lower growth in global demand for oil and gas. but they do warn that the world is still pumpings out about 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year from fossil fuels and this need to be drastically reduced to stabilize the climate. let's go to maureen la quarie, was in charge of this report, thank you so much for joining us

here on al jazeera. i guess on the face of it, it would look like if i may say good new in a way, but do you think this in any way shows that the level of emissions have actually peaked? >> it's encouraging news indeed. the emissions have been going up really rapidly in the past ten years in a discouraging way and the fact that the last two years are so unusual, maybe even seeing a slight decrease this year is really surprising. the global economies kept going in the background so that's good news. now whether we have peaked or not probably not. and in the background of this is decreased coal use in china. there's a contribution from increasing renewable energy worldwide. but we still have a large emerging economy still emerging and using coal as their primary energy resources, and we have

industrial countries using a lot of carbon emissions decreasing at a very, very modest rate. >> of course i guess that's the heart of the tension of many of the talks like the one going on in paris now but also all the ones that have preceded cop 21, that friction of a lot of fossil fuels, first of all, do you fear that this report might be used by some people as if to say well, you see, things aren't so bad so maybe the changes that we need to make don't have to be that drastic? >> yes, very tough negotiations in paris. but that's really not unusual for this kind of meeting. the discussion and negotiations are extremely hard for all the reasons you say. we have emerging economies obviously want to use more energy, most accessible is coal, industrial countries don't

decrease fast enough. i mean yes, the news are this year are encouraging but one has to keep in mind that to roferl climate change, to stop the planet to rise is to extremely near zero. we're extremely near zero that means both the industrial economies and the emerging countries will have to use energy in a different way. so the problem is fundamentally there. there is almost no room for using fossil fuel at all in the very near future. >> corinne laquare, professor of climate change science, madam, thank you verthank you so much. >> thank you. among the thousands of activists in paris one man, who knows all too well how painstakingly slow the negotiations have been.

spoke in 2013 about the deaf sayings that typhoon haiyan has had on his country. walking from rome to paris to draw attention to the cause. his travels took him through great san bernard pass in the alps. where nick clark joined him. >> susan typhoon haiyan made landfall in my own home town, in the devastation is staggering. i struggle to find words even for the images that we see on the news coverage. and i struggle to find words to describe how i feel about the losses. >> reporter: was make his opening remarks to the conference in warsaw. in the philippines, a typhoon of unimaginable frosty was wreaking

havoc and killing thousands. >> anyone outside who continues to deny and ignore the reality that is climate change, i dare them, i dare them to get off their ivory towers and away from the comfort of their arm chairs. i dare them to go to the islands of the pacific, the caribbean and the indian ocean. >> his speech led to a standing ovation as he wement in his wep. his words made little effect, little was achieved in warsaw. he resigned on his delegation focusing instead on cavism. he is walking from rome to paris, a march protest. >> so this is day -- >> 34. >> 34? >> yes. >> i joined him on an ancient

pilgrimage route high in the alps. >> the journey is about first of all paying homage to people who are confronting climate change in a very real way. so every step we take on this journey is meant for people who have suffered from the ravages of climate change. >> reporter: celebrations as yeb's team crossed the border from italy into switzerland. in the party is yeb's party ag who is amongst the rescuers in typhoon haiyan. >> men were crying, children were crying. nobody knew what to do. >> ag believes the death toll was much higher than the official estimate of around 8,000. >> but we lost more than 17,000 people. and nobody is crying for justice. who would provide justice?

who would take blame? no one would take blam the blam. but scientists all over the world know exactly to blame. >> neither man has much faith now in the u.n. negotiations but they still feel a deep responsibility to act. >> my motivation for this is quite simple. i have children. and i want to be able to look into their eyes and tell them i've done my best to leave you a better future, a world that cares, a world that is safe. >> reporter: another day, time to get back on the trail. he plans to make his mark outside of the process. nick clark, on the grade st. bernard pass in switzerland. >> much to come, waiting for

help, the nepalese still waiting for help. the security measures used by sailors, and in sport, the unbeaten golden state warriors take on the brooklyn nets looking to extend their record streak even further.

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the u.s. pet last vowed to do what it takes to destroy i.s.i.l. barack obama was giving a speech on i.s.i.l, critics say it lacked any concrete policy changes. patty culhane has more from washington. >> reporter: the backdrop, the oval office, this is only the third time u.s. president barack obama has used this setting for a national address meant to send a message of seriousness after the attacks in california that left 14 dead. investigators looking into whether the killers were inspired by islamic state of iraq and the levant. obama telling america he has a strategy to defeat the group. >> the threat is real but we will overcome it. >> reporter: having a difficulty convincing, 72% say the effort is going badly. and 60% say it's time to send more troops into iraq and syria.

his strategy is also facing serious criticism from republican presidential candidates. >> so for god sakes mr. president change our strategy, come up with a ground force to go in and destroy the caliphate before we get hit here at home. >> reporter: the president had his own criticism for the 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 have kept 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 warehouse to send a similar message.

>> the basic thing is to let the world realize that the terrorism they are seeing not only domestically but internationally is not representative of islam. >> reporter: the president is trying to use the speech from the white house to insist he has a method for approaching i.s.i.l. patty cu culhane, al jazeera, knowledge washington. senior al shabaab leader was killed as a significant blow to the group. foreigner fighting with the armed group has hand he himself in. abdel malik jones. the government says he was running for his life. choobl says hal shabaab said heo

side with taliban not i.s.i.l. basically, he wanted to join i.s.i.l, and that part of al shabaab still still had allegiance to al qaeda. explain the schism. >> in the recent months we have been hearing or seeing a number of al shabaab figures one thing to claim they are part of i.s.i.s. in particular, in northeastern somalia, a region called puntaland, this i.s.i.l. figure well-known who said we are part of i.s.i.s. but he lives in the northeast. this was in the south. so there has been some tension in particular between foreign fighters and the somali fighters. the foreign fighters wanting to be part of i.s.i.s, the somali

fighters, wanting to be part of al qaeda. >> we are seeing the splits between i.s.i.l. and al qaeda, in lots of other place. what is the appeal of joining i.s.i.s, even just the foreign fighters? because remains quite a new group, are they have streaked ahead in the past year or so, compared to shoobl a relatively new group. what is the appeal? >> they don't want for now to be part of i.s.i.s. three main reasons. al shabaab leadership has close relationship with al qaeda leadership they don't want to betray al qaeda leaders. second thing is if they feel al shabaab is a brand well-known in somalia, if they join i.s.i.s. they might win some local support. some somalis, they think i.s.i.s. are the new guys,

because mosing jihadis, some of these guys think it's already been established and time to join them. but the main al shabaab leadership and most of them do not want to be part of i.s.i.s. >> i guess they want to feel part of it, presuming he's saying he was running for his life, we don't have any reason to believe or disbelieve one way or the other, the passion behind it the fear on behalf of the al shabaab leader? >> yes, definitely. the last thing they want is a division in al shabaab, they have been losing towns and cities and some of their leadership, they do have some support within the somali citizenry. as far as they are concerned it is a red zone, any al shabaab fighter who tries to oppose is leadership or challenge, they kill, and not the first time, there was another case couple

years ago where the american guy, try to challenge the al shabaab leadership and was eventually killed by al shabaab. so for them it is a no go zone. >> in the past hour or so we have had confirmation from the pentagon that they managed to kill on december 2nd, a plan known as ukash, a significant blow to al shabaab, if i recall do yofinishesfirst of all, do y? >> i'm sure to every fighter they lose it is a blows to al shabaab, not one of the top guys. as far as al shabaab is concerned they have now retreated to some rural areas, they have been carrying out what they will describe as successful attacks against african union force he. they have lost major cities

major towns and now literally a guerilla force which they think for them is a better way to defeat the enemy which is the african union forces. i think we will see al shabaab for many years to come. >> always good to talk to you, thank you so much for coming in. now gun rights campaigners in the u.s. have failed to overturn a ban on heavy weapons in the suburb of chicago. the supreme court refused to hear an appeal against a bylaw, which banned assault weapons and large capacity magazines. meanwhile, the u.s. department of justice has launched a wide ranging investigation of the chicago police force. showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. use of deadly force among other issues. >> we will examine a number of issues related to the chicago

police department's use of force including deadly force. disciplinary actions and its handling of allegations of misconduct. >> $100 masked attackers have destroyed a security post in inner mongolia, search people were also wrecked in the attack on sunday. pepper sprayed staff tide them up and threatened to beat them to death. the u.n. humanitarian agency has launched a record appeal for 20.1 billion to help people affected by disasters around the world. among them are almost 3 million people left homeless by nepal's earthquake earlier this year. many are still waiting for help because of internal government squabbling. records from kathmandu.

>> small amount of money by prepare wool for knitting. lost six members of his family during the quake when his house fell. he seven months after the quake he's angry and dejected. >> translator: notices 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 that too has dropped. >> reporter: more than 75 died in this village and and i houses damaged. people face the additional expense of renting land and building temporary structure. the $4 billion set by the international community cannot be spent but it has allocated

more than $700 million for reconstruction this year but that hasn't been spent either. now the cabinet is saying that the national planning commission will be responsible for spending that money. the head of the exist commission has said, it will be a temporary role to get reconstruction moving. >> it is to facilitate the budgets put in current years budget by the government. since there is no authority at the moment and the $91 billion which was earmarked for reconstruction work will not be materialized. so our job has been to get those programs approved by the ministries and ask the ministries to implement them by themselves. >> but those working with quake victims are getting concerned. bureaucratic delays within the ministries and some say even corruption means, there is no transparency as to when the project will receive their funding. raising funds from friends and

families and distributing relief since the quake. >> translator: i've not seen reconstruction work anywhere. in the mountains people are suffering from the cold. they need food clothes and blankets. children are getting sick. let alone reconstruction, some have received no relief. >> reporter: some of the agencies said they are already starting to spend their money without the government. while the government has been focusing on political dead locks, quake victims are beginning to lose hope as well. subina shrestha, al jazeera, kathmandu. after a period of relative calm, pirate sirnd cats have becomsyndicates havebecome more. step vaessen reports from singapore. >> armed guards to protect ships against pirates, because of the

rise of the number of hijacks and robberies at sea. the weapons have to be locked away, a singh pofe singapore ba. >> easily 55 to 60% in this vicinity when they are traveling south of singapore towards the islands or away from the singapore island towards south china sea. >> shipowner knows the threat very well. his oil tankers have been hijacked by armed pirates three times in the past two years. >> happening every two weeks and of course we are very concerned and now we have started our own what do you call sop in how to deter this. >> he relies on the malasian navy, but navy commanders say ship owners should be more

alert. >> zero kind of policy, therefore i request all minuters oumarinersout there. should any suspicious contact approaching you at any time day or night, we must be alerted. >> besides armed guards, security firms are offering equipment to scare off pirates with sound or water. promise have been stepped up but they're not allowed to enter each other's territory. while joint sea patrols are seen as an important solution to combat prioriticy in southeast asia, they say the biggest problems lie on the land. where leaders of pirate syndicates are able to evade arrest. three months ago, police in indonesia detained a suspect

after a malasian ship was hijacked. but sources in indonesia say the suspected financier, a singaporean businessman has yet to be arrested. have not responded to questions from al jazeera. >> perhaps singh bor po singapoo deny, the financial sector is obviously very strong and quite influential and it's always been slightly autonomous of the singapore government. also perhaps there's a reluctance to open up pandora's box. >> a reluctance to share information continues to create uncertainty and fear.thousands of sailors who past through southeastern asia every day. step vaessen, al jazeera,

singapore. >> russia has lost its latest military satellite after it failed to separate from the rocket that was sending it into orbit. launched from the space center from northeastern russia on saturday. it was intended for military and civilian use and expected to burn up in the atmosphere on tuesday. still ahead in this news hour, back to business in sierra leone, tourist attractions reopen after the country is declared een ebola-free. coming up next.

has declared the west african country ebola-free. the economy is the top priority and tourism is crucial to grow. nina devries reports. from capetown. >> three are he intelligent, playful and don't mind posing with tourists. now the sanctuary is walking a fine line for survival. after losing about $100,000. since reopening visitor numbers have fallen by more than half. preebola sierra leone was starting to develop a stronger

tourist industry with the sanctuary one of the attractions. >> when visitors come tourists come they spend their money to fly to come into the country. so government in one way or the other through taxes that generate revenue there. >> reporter: the ebola crisis and falling tourism is estimated to cost the government around $11 million. visitors are starting to return. >> they are genetically close to us obviously and they are very endangered and it's important that their sanctuaries are 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 chimp. it's estimate they'd there were about 20,000 chimps inning sierra leone. in sierra

leone. locals have been warned not to eat bush meat since the ebola crisis. the goals of the sanctuary remain high, optimism everything will eventually bounce back. nina de vrieses freetown, sierra leone. >> robin with sports. >> ootion bid to have his 90 day ban from fifa overturn, given preliminary suspension of an alleged improper payment made by fifa president sepp blatter. regardless of the outcome platini will still face an ethics hearing next week, and whether a suspension of up to seven years will be imposed. sierra leone has been

cleared to host matches, africa cup of nation he earlier this year because of fears of spread of the ebola virus. liberia had their ban lifted last month but sierra leone had its in place still. violent clashes between football supporters in chile overshadowed the crowning of the chments. crowning the champions. won the championship title there we'll without kicking a ball, after their nearest rivelings rs failed to pick up a match. a prosurfer, evan halelman,

pulled into a barely and crushed into a with wave, fellow surfer was able to revive him in the water. then joined by championship leader mick fanning. now in a stable condition. well that same beach will host the final round of the world survegging league isurfing leag. rather eventful year for fanning. this is after he fought off the shark during a competition in south africa, obviously very dramatic pictures. he thought about quitting. soon after he was back in the water. next up is monday's story, fanning and others helping to pull out the surfer from the water and finally fanning could pick up a fourth world title at

this week's pipe masters. thousands of ideas for a new low glow for the 2020 games after a public competition. now the initial logo was scrapped amid allegations it had been copied,. >> since the celebration of tokyo's victory, viewed very much of a way that japan could rebound from the earthquake steun antsunami and the nuclea disaster. similarities to design of a belgian theater. opened to everyone in japan over the age of 18 to submit an alternative. there have been thousands of candidates.

cherry blossoms and spain based japanese graphic artists showing an opening fan. it is not clear if those are in the competition. narrowed down the selection will be made. but perhaps the bigger problems has surrounded the site itself for the olympic stadium. grandiose spectacular but its construction budget swells to double the original estimate and it was scrapped earlier this year by the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. ground will be broken on construction of the stadium by early 2017. but already an important deadline has been missed, the rugby world cup which is scheduled to take place here in 2019, now won't have its center piece stadium as a result. one slight bit of good news is that the tokyo government has committed to at least a quarter of the funding necessary to build the stadium, totaling $1.3

billion. >> let's send our focus to basketball, the golden state warriors cannot stop winning. 22 and 0 in the season and haven't been beat in regular season for 26 games yet. taking place on monday, last season's mvp curry, invaluable this season, game high 28 points 16 of them coming in the third quarter. the warriors won 114 points to flay. india's cricketers, won the fourth and final test against south africa in deli to wrap up a series win. hopes were dashed. india winning this quot contest.

battling second innings. >> even though test match we are never going to win this test, the determination was never lost and cleared to a south african team, we've always maintained that every test match is a very, very important game, you don't just throw a wict awa wicket awt submit. back t to barbara. >> this year's finalists, a study room questioning mental health and a series of chairs with fur coats. turner prize award is for just under $40,000. all other short listed artists win just under seven and a half thousand dollars.

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