welcome to the news hour. i'm richelle carey in doha. coming up in the next 60ing minutes. libya's rival governments make a move towards stability and agree to sign a under-backed agreement. syrian president bashar al-assad says he is willing to work with opposition groups but not ones involved in military action. climate change talks in paris are extended. but delegates say they are on the verge of a landmark deal.

and we're in moscow for readings of tolstoy's "war and peace." ♪ libyas rival governments have reached a deal. the sides have at least agreed on a u.n.-brokered plan to form a unity leadership. the envoy says the two sides will formally sign the deal on wednesday. under this plan the new government should be in place within two years. let's cross now to tunis with this potentially landmark deal. tell us more. >> reporter: i think the key part of the discussion and what was preventing a deal from being agreed in previous talks, was the presidential council and who will be in it. it was agreed there will be nine

members. martin cobbler, who is the new u.n. special envoy to libya has only been on the job for a while and he has man aged to bring confidence back into the u.n.-lead process, and he had this to say about the delegates who were here. >> i'm today very happy to have this agreement around the table. i'm convinced that human suffering has to end in libya, and those who agree to sign, they put the national interest, and they put the interest of the libyan people above personal interests. and i personally admire the courage and the wisdom of those around the table to go to sign this agreement. >> reporter: martin cobbler spoke about the threats that libya is facing and the reason why the international pressure has grown on these talks to succeed is because of the

expansion of isil in libya, taking important areas of the country, and effecting the oil industry there, and the humanitarian has increased and there are issues also to do with security throughout the country and -- affecting the region in general. but where the government will be placed is still not clear, plus there's no mention of the general, he is the commander of the libyan army in the east, and no mention was made of where he would fit into all of this. >> and two years is a long time away. there are so many things that could derail this process. just because a lot of leaders in the room decide this, that doesn't necessarily mean it will

carry on. >> reporter: what happens next is these representatives will go back to tripoli and tobruk. but two years is a long time, especially in libya, which is facing economic, humanitarian, and security issues. so anything, even the smallest issue could possibly detail this unity government. >> all right. reporting live for us on the breaking news of the day from tunis. thank you. diplomats meeting in rome have also been focusing on reaching political agreement in libya. there has also been a push for the international community to work together to combat the threat from libya. diplomats say they must reach a common agreement to secure libya

and skir -- syria from isil. >> translator: we make a contribution tomorrow in the context of trying to share as much as possible the common commitment which we all have against isil and terrorism. we are aware of the seriousness of that threat, and we have to make sure we have the right conditions for a common fight. >> translator: we encourage everybody to commitment to the support for syria in vienna, and we hope in the near future we will be able to agree to other points of this very important mechanism to make further progress in order to draw up a list of terrorist organizations. this is fundamental in terms of the combat ahead, and we have to include all members of the opposition. isil says it has carried out through truck bombs in syria. a syrian monitoring group says the attacks were in a kurdish

town. the area is a base for kurdish fighters who are bet -- battling isil. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says he will attend talks next week. and they agreed on the basically principals for a solution to end the five-year civil war. they have agreed to set up ab joint body to hold peace talks with the government in the first ten days of january, but some factions maintain that the syrian president must step down before the start of a transitional period. a key opposition group have signed the statement, following earlier reports that it had pulled out of the negotiations. assad says he is willing to negotiate with the opposition but not if they are armed. >> translator: we are ready to

start the negotiations with the opposition, but it dp dpen -- depends on the definition of opposition. there is a big difference between militants, terrorists, and opposition. opposition is a political term, not a military term. a syrian opposition coalition special rep representative to the u.n., and he says assad needs to acknowledge the opposition as a legitimate. >> when he refers to the oppositions as terrorists, that is referring to recognize there is a partner, while we decided we will accept negotiating with the assad regime, even though it's the main perpetrator of terrorism. it's the side that killed the most syrians. because we want a political solution. so i would say the gap is still wide, and that's why we need

international pressure on the other side. we need consequences and guarantees for those talks to have a real chance. i think a lot depends on the up coming meeting of the syria support group in new york. the group that met in vienna, and the fact that they are able to agree that the frame of reference in the geneva communicate, and maybe if they are able to structure those talks through a security council resolution which would present those guarantees, and the pressure needed on the other side, and its backers, russia and iran to come, again with good faith to negotiations. now we have seen that russia is taking part in the conflict. it is not a broker in this sense. in fact it is an aggressor. they can be a constructive

player if they first stop the bombardment of syria, and they again pressure the other side to bring it to the negotiating table. turkey's president says he will not remove turkish troops from northern iraq, and iraq's prime minister is now asking the united nations security council to intervene. our correspondent joins us now from istanbul omar tell us more about this. >> reporter: yes, well, it has been developing for the last few days, actually yesterday there was a turkish delegation in baghdad, the under secretary for the foreign minister as well as the spy chief, the head of the intelligence in baghdad, and i think things were not quite good, didn't go well then. we had reaction coming the

following day from the president saying the issue of withdrawing the troops is totally out of the question. he also said that turkey took a preventative measure against a terrorist threat on turkish soil, and he means the terrorist threat coming from the islamic state of iraq and the levant, that group, and he says if the iraqi government won't take the necessary steps to prevent a terror threat on turkey, we will. so it's pretty much developing, and what is also interesting is that before the president came out and before the iraqi prime minister called on the iraqi foreign ministry to complain about turkey and the united nations security council, there was a carefully written statement by the turkish foreign ministry saying that they are willing to reorganize the turkish troops present at that military base in northern iraq, so it's very interesting, and we

have to wait and see how things develop in the coming, perhaps hours or days. >> okay. omar, thank you very much. fighting continues in iraq between the army and isil fighters. thousand vsz been forced to leave their homes and some have ended up in the kurdish region in north. imran khan reports. >> reporter: this man has been a butcher for most of his life. he ran a small shop in fallujah. two years ago he found out isil fighters were taking territory on the out skirts of the city, so late one night, he took his family and headed north to this kurdish region of iraq. he said that decision saved his life. >> translator: life was hell for us. the iraqi army would shell fallujah every day, and then

isil would try to control us. we had nothing. at least 4,300 people have settled here. kurdish and arab communities get along here. those who fled the violence in anbar province have had a positive effect on this community. they have brought in jobs and money. it used to be a seasonal town, now it's a very busy and bustling market town all year around. for this man this town represents a new start and a chance for peace. he is thankful the kurds have allowed them to open shops. >> translator: i really like it here, it's peaceful. it's not easy, but at least it's not a camp. i can't imagine i'll ever go back to anbar. there is nothing there. it has been totally destroyed.

many former anbar residents feel the same way. they say they want to live in dignity and not in camps. but this is a rare positive example. elsewhere in iraq, sectarian divisions continue to lead to violence and isil continues to hold territory. but here it's peaceful and secure, and that's what people want. imran khan, al jazeera, northern iraq. breaking news coming to us from afghanistan, we are getting reports of an explosion in the diplomatic area of the capitol. of course that is kabul. at least three attackers targeted a guest house near the spanish embassy. there has begun fire as well. the blast comes days after an attack on the airport complex in the southern city of kandahar. let's go to jennifer glasse. jennifer, what else do you know?

>> reporter: we heard the explosion here. we're a couple of kilometers away. it happened a little less than two hours ago. >> and as you can tell by that sound we lost our correspondent jennifer glasse, but she is gathering much more information on this explosion in kabul. as soon as we can establish a connection with her, and get you more information, we'll do that. in the men time, after the jockeying for power to succeed africa's oldest leader could spit zimbabwe's ruling party. and in sport, find out if the european football president has had his provisional ban lifted. ♪

an explosion at a moss income the ethiopian capitol. at least 16 people have been injured. this happening within the last hour, so as soon as we can get more information on that, we will bring it to you. gunmen have attacked army barracks in burundi's capitol. a dozen attackers were killed and five soldiers injured. it was the latest in daily gun battles between the armed forces and opposition groups. gunfire and explosions shut down burundi's capitol on friday morning. residents woke up to road blocks, check points and military patrols. fighting in the land-locked african country has intensified over the last few days. militia have fought with police and soldiers, exchanging gunfire for several hours. the attacks have mostly been in

districts opposed to the president staying in power. in this district, residents say men in police uniforms shot and killed five of their neighbors. witnesses say the victims were taken from their homes, marched along the street and executed at point-blank range. >> translator: the police entered and took my mother. they broke down the door and found this man in there. they carried him to the road and shot him. >> reporter: police say they were conducting house-to-house searching looking for weapons. they displayed guns and ammunition seized this week. the violence began when the president announced he would seek a third term. burundi's constitutional court voted in favor of his bid in may, and then he was elected for another five years in july. critics say his third term also

violates the accord which ends burundi's civil war. more than 300,000 people were killed between 1993 and 2006. politically motivated violence since april has killed at least 280 people. there's wide-spread concern that political conflicts could reignite ethnic divisions, putting burundi on the brink of another civil war. we have reestablished a connection with our correspondent, jennifer glasse in kabul. there's an explosion that has happened. there is an on going battle of some sort in kabul, the capitol. jennifer what else have you been able to learn? >> reporter: richelle that explosion happened just before

6:00 in the evening. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. but we understand it is on the spanish embassy guest house or spanish embassy compound. the area is cordoned off, you are seeing pictures of the police on the scene, in this heavily fortified area. it is inside kabuls ring of steel. a local hospital says seven wounded afghans have been brought to their hospital. after the explosion we heard several bursts of gunfire, but so far it has been quiet, unclear exactly what is happening, whether there are attackers inside, there are local reports that there are three attackers inside that compound, but it is quiet so far, but as i say, the authorities have cordoned off the area. of course this comes just a couple of days after the taliban launched a huge assault in southern afghanistan.

70 people were killed in that assault. >> so you are saying it is quiet now, but the situation is still far from stable as far as you know? >> reporter: that's right, very unsecure, we're being told not to move around the city at all. there are embassies nearby, lots of people work there, offices, and also residences. everyone is communicating on social media, to be worried about secondary explosions. we have had sieges like this before, where gunmen have gotten inside complexes and sometimes it takes hours to get them out a large number of afghan security forces are on the scene at this time. >> all right. jennifer glasse reporting for us from kabul on an explosion and some sort of gunfire or attack near the spanish embassy that the taliban has claimed responsibility for.

thank you. now to zimbabwe where the conference of the ruling parties is being held. the disasterous economy is a major talking point. another is a question over who will succeed the ruling president. >> reporter: the political maneuvering within the ruling party to see who could one day take over for the 91-year-old president has been going on for months. >> they are divided along factional lines. in the military, intelligence services, and the police. and that is very dangerous. and now there is no obvious successor. and we don't know what will happen if he wakes up today incapacitated. >> reporter: one group is believed to back one of two vice presidents. another faction, generation 40,

or g-40 is thought to play a key role in ousting his former deputy last year. political analysts also wonder what is in store for grace magabi. >> he has managed to keep people from getting surprised. we never know, it could happen that she -- she, she they are going to try to [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: leaders admit there are some differences, but say the party is united. >> if those who cherish fellowship continue in that spirit, they will be surprised that they will take action on them, because we must build a party, which [ inaudible ] and move away from a situation where people claim to be [ inaudible ]

other people. >> reporter: the next presidential election is in 2018. officials say they want the president to run again in 2018. he will be 94 years old. but there are some who are concerned about the health of africa's oldest leader. the issue of succession is contentious, but he will likely want to address issues such as the struggling economy and how to move the party forward. now to a man who has rescued countless numbers of children from slavery in india who says many others are in desperate need of help. he was jointly awarded a nobel peace prize last year. he says his work is only just beginning. >> reporter: rescuing children from slavery is the priority in this office, as it has been for more than 30 years. the man who leads an

international movement against child labor says his cause has been strengthened by the nobel peace prize, and his work load has only increased. >> i made it clear last year on the very first moment that this is a calling in my life and work, it's not the full stop. i'm not going to sit here. my new journey begins from here. my new journey started last year, for bringing more cause to the children. >> reporter: he has been fighting for children's rights for years. he says the visibility that the nobel prize gave him has abliejed the world's leaders to take more note of his mission.

>> translator: he taught me. he is the one who freed me and put me through school. i was educated because of him. and today i am the treasurer of his organization. but the biggest benefit for me is today my children are getting an education because of him. >> reporter: one of the drawbacks is that he can't take part in surprise rescue operations anymore. his face is just too well-known. but those who continue the dangerous work of freeing children are finding more support on the ground. he says this is good news. but warned the nobel peace prize has yet to translate into stronger child protection laws in india. >> if indian government, if indian society, is not able to protect children from these kind of exploitations and abusive

situations, then there is no reason to just praising me and my work, and congratulating me and being proud. the proud comes -- will come only when child labor, child slavery, child trafficking, is completely eliminated from this land. >> reporter: his nobel prize has highlighted the extent of the child right's problem in india, and the year since he has accepted the award has shown that while international accolades may help, they are not enough on their own to fix the problem. returning now to the breaking news story we're following out of the ethiopian capitol. charles stratford has been following this developing story.

charles what more do we know now? >> reporter: earlier on, we were getting reports that there had been a number of casualties and indeed one dead. i can now confirm according to the ministry of information they say 16 people were injured in what they say was a grenade attack. a grenade throw into the mosque after friday prayers today. this is the largest mosque in the city. it's important to recognize that muslim christian relations in this country have been largely pretty good over recent years. this certainly hasn't been an incident like this before. we went down to the mosque, and were detained by police down there. they stopped us from filming, and confiscated our ids and accreditation, and wouldn't allow us to even sit in our car, let alone speak to people in the area this they were using their batons to try to clear people

away from us. so certainly a lot of tension around that mosque, but as i say, certainly the ministry of information reporting 16 people injured, and no deaths. >> charles so this is happening at a time of increasing political tension in some parts of ethiopia. what does the government think about that? are they speculating that there is a connection to that? >> reporter: well, that's right. it's very important to put context on what has happened today. certainly in recent weeks there have been reports of increasing political tension and violent protests in some of the areas. now the arrowmo people are the largest group in ethiopia. now these protests are over what

they say are again their rights being ignored. over what they feel is their right to expand development in that area. activists and opposition say people are being evicted from their land, and their rights are being ignored. and that's what these protests have been over. we hear there have been a number of people killed in those protests. activists bandy some fairly large figures. certainly more than ten according to opposition figures that we have spoken to in recent days. the government does acknowledge that there have been deaths at these protests, and said it wants to launch an investigation as to who is responsible. we have spoken to activists on the phone. but back to today's story, it was interesting that the ministry of information told me over the telephone that he is blaming this grenade attack at

this mosque on people trying to foment confusion and more panic, in the context of this political tension amongst certain groups of the aromo ethnic group here in ethiopia. >> all right. charles stratford reporting live for us. thank you. coming up later -- >> tonight they step off the plane as refugees, but they walk out of this terminal as permanent residents of canada. >> reporter: a power-packed welcome for a group of syrian refugees who arrived in canada. it has taken four days and four nights and a cost of over a thousand people, and people on television, radio, and online. what am i talking about? well, the reading of perhaps the greatest novel in russian

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welcome back. here are your top stories on al jazeera. libya's ryal governments have reached a deal after key talks in the tunisian capitol. the sides have agreed on the u.n.-brokered plan to form a unity government. the two sides will sign a final deal on wednesday. bashar al-assad says he is willing to negotiate with the opposition, but not if they are armed. some syrian opposition groups have agreed to hold talks with syrian government leaders in the first ten days of january. meanwhile, john kerry will travel to moscow to discuss the situation in syria with the russian leadership. there is an ongoing attack near the spanish embassy in the diplomatic area of the afghan capitol, kabul.

at least three attackers targeted a guest house near the building. the blast comes just days after an tack in kandahar where 50 people were killed. talks in paris on climate change have been extended for a further day. delegates say they are close to a final deal. the text of an agreement is expected to be released on saturday morning. the u.n. secretary general says the future of humanity is at stake. >> i'm urging the negotiators to make their decision placed on global vision. this is not the moment of talking about their personal perspectives. good global position, will help good local solution. jacky rowland has more now from the french capitol. >> we're now into the last lap

of negotiations, or at least that is how the french are describing it in this push to get an agreement by saturday. it is clear there has been some progress on some issues, for example, that target figure of 1.5% temperature rise above preindustrial levels. it has to be well below 2 degrees to head towards that 1.5. there has also been progress on finance, and getting commitments of money to help developing countries, help the poorest countries make the switch to renewalable energy. however, there are still a number of sticking points. one is called differentiation, and that is how do you measure and report progress on emissions. developing countries have had different ways. the developed world says that

want the developing countries to do more, the developing countries are saying that is not fair, because we're not operating on a level playing field. so those are some of the key issues, and they are key issues although a lot of progress has been made thus far. a plan for collecting information on all passengers traveling into and out of europe by air has passed a hurdle. if it is adopted it will involve the collection of data, including passenger's travel plans and bank card details. joining me now from london is a former founding member of al-qaeda who became a spy for mi-5, and mi-6. wow, that's an interesting path to get us here to this discussion, and we appreciate your incite on a topic like this. is there anything ground

breaking about this plan compared to other plans we have heard of? >> it's just the continuation of governments trying to grab as much data as possible on their own citizens. at the end of the day i don't see any reason from a security point of view that would prevent any attacks by collecting as much data as they are trying to do in this case. >> so you don't see this as being effective? >> no, because at the end of the day, if you are making it public that you are going to collect as much data as possible on people traveling by air, people who are intending to do harm will switch to other modes of transportation, rail, road, and basically using maritime needs. >> so what do you see as a way to be effective? how do you stop people that are trying to do your harm? >> it's not that easy. at the end of the day, most of

the people who are coming by air are coming with generally good intentions. the vast majority are doing so. they are buying their tickets by credit cards, and coming with already obtained visas. so if someone wants to do harm, they will come in a clandestine way. so basically you track them from the source, and at the same time, you do better in terms of trying to minimize the impact on wars and conflict around the globe. i don't think basically more and more espionage by collecting data on people will achieve anything. >> just because someone knows the system is going to be in place, doesn't mean everyone is going to stop using planes and go some other way. sometimes the plane is the way they are going to do it anyway. >> it is likely that they will

do it. but if you look at the number of people who committed acts of terrorism over the past year, you will find many of them are home grown. the vast majority did not use a plane to go there, they were already there. they were citizens of the country that was attacked. so i don't see how collecting massive data on tens of millions of people just to determine what kind of meals that are eating on the planes and what type of entertainment they are choosing on the planes, how will that help? just feeding the data mining software. >> how do you get better human intelligence? you said that's the way to go. how do you do that? >> well, there are two kinds of intelligence. there is the signal, which is

the interception of communication, as well as gathering of data, but also you have the human intelligence. both complicate each other like two eyes and one head. the problem here is that in recent years most governments, especially in the west, decided to pursue signal intelligence, because basically it is easier to do so, basically. all you need to do is to have the legislation in place, have the infrastructure in place, and that's it. you could collect billions of tara bites of data on people to see if there are any patterns that could put a red flag basically on an individual orentity. but anyone who uses data-mining software will tell you without human intelligence to zoom in the data, zoom in basically the mining software, you cannot achieve that much, because basically you are looking for 20

needles in a billion haystacks. >> makes perfect sense. okay. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> okay. thank you. the first plane load of syrian refugees from camps in jordan and lebanon has arrived in canada. the prime minister was one of the first people to welcome the refugees. the flight arrived in toronto before midnight on thursday, and another will land on saturday. canada's newly elected government plans to vettel 25,000 refugees by the end of february. >> this is a wonderful night, where we get to show not just a plane load of new canadians what canada is all about, but we get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome people in who are fleeing extremely difficult situations. but it's also about the hard work we're all going to do to

ensure that everyone who passes through here tonight and in the weeks and months to come are able to build a life for themselves, for their family, and also contribute fully to the continued growth of this extraordinary country. last month, the european union and turkey reached deal to stem the flow of refugees coming into the continent. but as bernard smith reports, the deal seems to be actually increased the number of people sailing to europe. >> reporter: smuggling people to europe has just become a lot harder along this stretch of the turkish coast. military reinforcements have arrived. while from the air and sea the coast guard watches for us ispy

house activity. on land the security forces tell us they are as busy now as they were in summer. these refugees didn't want to talk. they didn't need to. their expressions say everything. aren't you ashamed of human trafficking. you will kill these people, the officer shouts at the bus driver. you can see the fifth they were forced to wait in. sometimes for several days before they were able to get in boats and cross. but while this site might have been abandoned, there are endless launching off points all the way along this coast. the european union's plan may for now have helped increase traffic. >> translator: one smuggler we reached on the phone said he has never been busier.

our work is double that of the summer, he says, because people are scared the deal with the e.u. will close the border, so people are rushing to get out. >> reporter: the provincial governor says he has drafted security personnel from outside of the region in a crack downthat was planned before the agreement with the e.u. >> translator: our only concern is saving lives. if they fall into the water, with this weather, they will quickly freeze to death. >> reporter: the u.n. says more than 30,000 refugees have crossed from turkey to greece so far this month. >> translator: there is no life now. no life. every day planes are dropping bombs in syria now, you don't know who is fighting each other. they come from around the world to fight and kill neighbors, kill each other.

>> reporter: with the easier route cut off, refugees are making longer sea voyages further down the coast. just in the last ten days 30 people, many children, drowned in the freezing cold aegean. desperate circumstances, force desperate choices. north and south korea are holding talks aimed at improving their strained relations. ministers from both countries are meeting in the demilitarized zone. harry fawcett has more from seoul. >> reporter: these talks have their genesis in the heightened tensions between north and south korea in august which lead to an exchange of fire across the demilitarized zone, and then a marathon session of talks leading to a deal that mandated

regular senior level communications between the governments. we have expected perhaps it would be more senior than this, perhaps in seoul, instead we have these slightly more junior level talks. so far we have had word of the initi initial mren -- mrpleasantries. he said this could be the start of a real effort to try to improve the situation on the peninsula. as for the agenda, it hasn't been made public, but it is almost certain that the south korean side will raise the issue of reunions of separated families. there was one in october, south korea has argued for much more regular events.

the north korean side likely to argue for resumption of interkorean tourism. there is one project in the southeast which has been suspended since 2008. it has taken four days and four nights and a cost of 1,300 russians to read through four volumes of war and peace. the classic is often more talked about than actually read. now the curtain is falling on a project that has tried to bring the book back to the people rory challands from moscow. >> reporter: and so it began. both a -- famous russians, even a russian in space, all taking a turn to read from tolstoy's

book. this is a tv presenter, a great, great granddaughter of tolstoy and one of the drivers behind this project. >> he questions a lot of key rules of the -- how the society is built. he questions the power, the government. when you read war and peace, the battles, you understand his idea that war is the awfulest thing in the world. >> reporter: he described war and peace as not a novel, less of a poem, and still less a historical chronicle, what it is, is epic. it tells the author's interpretation of napoleon's disastrous invasion of russia.

>> translator: the questions he races are still relevant now. and the answers -- well, russian literature doesn't generally give answers, it asks questions, and we're still trying to solve them. >> translator: it feels like he is still nearby advising us on life. there are simple people and big politicians and he shows a chain of mistakes that everyone makes mistake, and we should be able to overcome them. >> reporter: this reading of war and peace has been broadcast live on russian television, radio, and online. the project's creators call it a democratic event and a unifying one. they say that great literature can bring people together in troubled times. whoever they are, wherever they are. of course i couldn't do a report on reading war and peace without having a go myself, so here it

goes. he gripped the pullel, spired his horse and galloped off to his regimen. he wanted one thing, to find out what was going on and help rectify at all costs any error. and if you want to know what happens next, read the book. if you are quick, it will take you about four days and four nights. still to come all of the sport. >> it's sad to see somebody derives such wrong information, they lose all credibility. ♪

time for all of your sport now with andy. >> thank you so much, richelle. michelle platini has failed in his effort to have his 90-day ban lifted. he was hit with the provisional ban by the fifa ethics committee while they investigate corruption charges. they are set toish their final verdict before the end of the year. the frenchman saying via his lawyers, he is confident his case is solid. >> since the fifa ethics committee has indicated that it will render its final decision on the merits before the end of this year, let it finish its job within the time limit it has

even fixed itself, and wait for final decision on the merit. this time limit is objectively acceptable. lee wellings says regardless of which way the judgment had gone, his future in football would still be in doubts. >> it's important to acknowledge that this hearing was not about whether he is ultimately innocent or guilty of corruption. this was about whether it was unfair to keep him out effectively of the fifa presidential election process. and what it has to take on board is the actual fifa full ethics committee hearing is taking place as early as next week. there should be a decision by december 31st. that's what will happen, and then we'll see if michel platini is banned from football for years. if that happens, no doubt he'll want to take this back to the court of arbitration for sport.

none of this is key at all for his hopes of becoming fifa president in february. but of course he is fighting for his entire career in football. uefa's top decision making body is meeting in paris in platini's absence. the stage draw is set to take place on saturday. one man who's name will be on the ballot for the elections one of the asian football president. he is considered to be the favorite to take the top job. he says he wasn't implement in the torture of athletes back in 2011. >> it's sad to see iffing somebody writes such wrong information, they lose their credibility. and to tell you the truth some of the media organizations that have reported this, without even

referring anything to me, i think they have lost their credibility to me and a lot of people around my country. because this affects the whole of bahrain when you write something like this. and i think they have lost the credibility of more people in bahrain by all sides. >> you can watch that full interview on saturday, and it will also be available in full on our website, aljazeera.com. an algerian international footballer has been shot dead with police unsure of the reason for the attack. he played at the 2014 world cup in brazil. he spent some of his world cup career in europe. while the indian and pakistan cricket teams are

struggling to find a date or screen you for their series, they will definitely play each other next year. there were concerns for teams competing in mumbai which has recently been the focus of anti-pakistan protests. >> [ inaudible ] indian conditions, so it's not such a big home advantage anymore, and especially in an environment like this where the cricket is so quick. we would obviously like to cross the finishing line this time. and australia and the west indies, they were just two short of the all-time aussie record set back in 1934.

unbeaten on 269 when strayia declared on 583-4. kevin durant has put out another outstanding performance. he picked up his seventh career triple-double. the thunder, their 7th win in the last 9 games. and nick fanning is looking good in his effort to win another world cup. winning his first heat in hawaii, and the champion will be decided at this event. okay. plenty more sport coming up later on, but that is it for now. >> thank you so much. we're going to hand it over to london now, and my colleague,

barbara sarah.

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talks are underway in both tunisia and italy to end the conflict in libya. we have reports from both countries. ♪ hello there, i'm barbara sarah, you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program. the taliban claim responsibility for a car bomb attack near the spanish embassy in the capitol of kabul. and bringing an iconic russian novel back to the