>> we will be able to see change. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, welcome to the al jazeera news hour i'm jane dutton in doha, a ceasefire comes in effect in yemen as peace talks get underway between the warring parties in switzerland, saudi arabia announces formation of an alliance of many muslim nations to fight what it calls terrorism. going into camps we meet some of the thousands displaced by the conflict in south sudan. i'll be here with the day's

sport including they continue their unlikely run on top of the english league and jose faces more questions about his own future. ♪ hello again we begin in yemen where a ceasefire is an hour old and the week long truce is coinciding with peace talks between the warring sides in switzerland and halts eight months of the saudi-led military alliance and houthi rebels and coalition fighting the rebels since the yemen government was forced into exile in march and we have a yemen political analyst and is live via skype from sanaa and the ceasefire is in place, are you aware of it? what are you hearing? >> yes, i'm aware of it and unfortunately it's not holding

and there are clashes and grand fighting as well so basically this is why it has not helped. >> and we have been here before haven't we and it didn't work that time either. what do you think should be done differently this time? >> unfortunately even last time we warned that as long as there is no buy in from the forces on the ground the ceasefire is meaningless in addition to the ceasefire is only a temporary hold in hostilities and doesn't change anything on the ground and people suffer iing regardin electricity and drugs are of concern on the ground and do not care much of the ceasefire and it will temporarily hold hostilities but no real resolution to the war. >> how important do you think the ceasefire is other than what you mentioned with the humanitarian aspect, how many people are effected and what is it they desperately need to survive now?

>> they need basic necessities like water like food like drugs and during the ceasefire there was no discussion of what is being now housed by the coalition forces and even a seven-day ceasefire is not enough window to get enough humanitarian aid into the country and that is exactly what people on the ground need and for us when you go the street they don't really care about the ceasefire as how much humanitarian aid is coming into the country. is the war ending? is there a resolution between the war and factions which will end this humanitarian catastrophe in the country. >> do you think the questions will be answered in geneva where the peace talks are taking place? >> that won't be answered and in geneva the warring factions and getting a political deal where they will survive in the coming political regime.

in any event the least of the concerns as the humanitarian conditions on the ground. >> very good to have you talking to us on that ceasefire which he says is not holding at the moment. well the conflict has been a bitter one in the poorest country in the middle east and began in september last year when houthi rebels took control of the capitol sanaa with the former president saleh backing they were able to sweep through regions and in march the saudi-led coalition started carrying out air strikes on houthis after advance on the strategic port city of aiden and u.n. estimates almost 6,000 civilians have been killed since march. the fighting continued up until the truce. we heard that it is carrying on more than 11 fighters on both sides have been killed in the dalaia providence in southern yemen and we are live now in geneva and how important are the talks and what is on the table and who is there, zaina?

>> well, the negotiations have begun. this is what we understand and that in itself is progress. the last time the warring sides were supposed to hold negotiations talks collapsed even before they started. like you mentioned the warring sides agreed to a ceasefire. now the u.n. is not disclosing where the talks are taking place but we do understand it is happening approximately 150 kilometers from geneva. the u.n. imposing a media blackout because it wants to ensure every chance of success and wants the parties to avoid making statements to jeopardize the talks but like you mentioned the two sides have very conflicting views. the yemeni government wants their houthi rebels and their allies to unconditionally implement u.n. resolution 2216 which calls on the rebels to lay down their arms and to withdraw from territory they captured and houthi rebels say yes we will discuss this but didn't say whether they will agree to it. what we understand is that the

houthi rebels and their allies want broader discussions and want a power sharing agreement and not just going to give up power about a fight, they are still in control of the capitol sanaa and fighting has not been able to dislodge them from sanaa and at the moment the situation on the ground no one is winning, no one has the upper hand to dictate what they see or how they see a political settlement on the ground but what we understand from the u.n. envoy is that the conditions are in place for a political solution, he did not elaborate but the u.n. is determined to push this process forward and u.n. saying these talks will last as long as it takes. >> on the eve of these talks we hear of this new saudi-led coalition. >> yes, saudi arabia announcing a new coalition, not just on the eve of the talks in yemen but just a day after the u.s.

president barack obama called on america's allies in the region mainly the gulf arab countries to do more in the fight against i.s.i.l., u.s. officials have been increasingly frustrated the arabs have not really been helping in the fight against i.s.i.l. but in that statement saudi arabia says that this coalition is going to fight terrorism, not just i.s.i.l., other terror groups and there is really little details because well this involve ground forces and will they be deployed in syria and iraq and came from the kremer enand putin saying he needs to hear details first and u.s. defense secretary is in turkey and touring the region to discuss more details but if the troops and involved ground troops deplays in syria and iraq what will be the reaction to the iraqi government and could be a

reaction. >> it includes 34 muslim nations and won't just confront i.s.i.l. but will fight any group threatening its members and gerald tan has the details. >> reporter: it was a rare news conference from the saudi defense minister, the announcement was the creation of a new military alliance of mainly islamic nations. >> translator: shall be an operations room in riyadh for the coordination and support efforts to fight terrorism in many parts of the islamic world, this announcement comes from islamic world vigilance so we can be a partner as a group of countries fighting this disease. >> reporter: the so called disease is widespread and alliance will confront i.s.i.l.'s growing influence in iraq and syria and aims to combat the rise of groups to libya and pakistan and afghanistan among others. 34 nations are part of this

coalition and includes established military heavy weights such as pakistan and egypt as well as economic ones qatar and the uae and iran is absent from the list and it's saudi arabia's main regional rival, iraq and syria both at the heart of the i.s.i.l. conflict are also not part of this so how strong is the alliance? >> we have turkey and also significant, they are a very significant military power, they are a member of nato and so, yes, i do think it sends a very, very crucial signal that the muslim world particularly the sunni muslim world now is united against this sunni led group i.s.i.l. >> reporter: the saudi government is leading a separate military campaign in yemen. it has been engaged in nine months of warfare against houthi rebels. the united states has indicated that fire power might be better served if channelled to

defeating i.s.i.l. the latest coalition could very well be the first step. gerald tan, al jazeera. u.s. defense secretary ashton carter heading to the middle east for more help to fight i.s.i.l. and barack obama launched defense of strategy against the group and warned leaders of the group that the u.s. led coalition will hunt them down one by one. >> i.s.i.l. lost 40% of the populated areas it once controlled in iraq and circlini fallujah and partners on the ground face a tough fight ahead. >> reporter: suicide bombers killed thousands of soldiers and fighter and 12 suicide attacks in northern and eastern ramadi in the anbar province and we are in irbil and what happens?

>> we are getting details of at least 12 suicide separate car bomb attacks on security forces and the sunni tribe malitias are in the northern, eastern part of ramadi. if you remember ramadi is the place where the iraqi government last said it made major gains and pushed back i.s.i.l. and trying to consolidate itself but looks like i.s.i.l. has now started pushing itself back into the arena by counter attacks and attacking not just forces but deliberate attacks targeted against convoys bringing in reenforcements to the front lines and various tribal leaders as well as various security forces. >> coalition strikes with ramadi as well, haven't there? >> absolutely. so while these attacks are taking place we are also getting reports of coalition air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets and looks like the strategy i was

speaking to military analysts and say the strategy by i.s.i.l. has been to dispurse itself to carry out hit-and-run so to speak with intelligence about specific convoys, where the troop movements are and where it would attack. this attack, the series of these attacks at one place is significant, just east of ramadi which is close to a military base the iraqi security forces is used by american training forces and they are still putting up a fight and making it hard for iraqi forces who have for moves trying to take ramadi and the i.s.i.l. fighters took over ramadi in may and have been entrenched in urban centers ever since. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in russia for talks with russian counterpart, at the start of the meeting with sergei fedorov he took the opportunity to speak out against the islamic

state of iraq and the levante. >> on i.s.i.l. or da'esh, russia and the united states agree that this is a threat to everybody, to every country, that there is no negotiation, these are the worst of terrorists, they attack culture and history and all decency and they leave no choice but for civilized nations to stand together and to fight and push back and destroy them. >> reporter: peter sharp sent us the latest from moscow. >> i think despite the encouraging remarks from both sides before the talks got underway no one is under estimating the difficulties that lie ahead both russia and the united states will try and narrow down their differences over the next set of diplomatic talks. basically the future of

president assad and also trying to bring together opposition, politicians and militias who are prepared to sit down at the table and continue the process. now, that is set on paper anyway for friday in new york, it seems unlikely that that will time scale will be met but the opposition groups are saying that it is totally unacceptable that president assad will be present at those talks and, in fact, they would not continue the talks if he was not going to remove himself before the transitional period. >> so with al jazeera a lot to come and military leaders stand trial for a failed coup with a background of mounting violence, new reports from burundi plus. this is the magellan strait and i'm in chile where hundreds of whales are dying and no one

knows why. in sport the former president of honduras surrenders to u.s. authorities as part of fifa corruption investigation. ♪ details remerging of a emerging which may have left tens of thousands of people dead and it's a small shia sect and planning to kill the army chief chief of staff and the lead of the sect was arrested. and we are live in abuja, what happened yvonne? >> reporter: well, jane, shiites in nigeria say what happened over the weekend was a massacre of innocent civilians by the nigerian army. they say they were conducting a

peaceful process to mark the month in which the prophet mohamed was born and it was during this procession that the convoy and motorcade of the chief of army staff a top army general was trying to pass by and couldn't dismantle the procession fast enough and soldiers they allege began sporadically firing at the marchers, at innocent civilians trying to take part in this holy and sacred event and say the military went on to destroy a number of shiite religious venues there and say the deputy leader of the group was also killed by the military, executed and the spokesperson. we spoke to the son of the group's leader over the telephone and he says that even up to this point the military is conducting house to house raids, looking for shiites who were involved in that procession which blocked the motorcade of

the chief of army staff and they are being killed. he says that the situation is extremely volume volitile and dangerous and they say it's untrue that yes indeed the chief of army staff was trying to reach a location in zaria and the road was being blocked and the military say these marches then tried to assassinate the chief of army staff and the military has been speaking a little about what happened and the group's leader. >> given the violence in the city, it was important we are in protected custody. as of this morning we successfully did that. i want to present to you members

of the press that the shiite leader is safe and in protective custody. >> reporter: yvonne clearly important development and tell us more about the sect. >> reporter: well the leader of the sect had been in the thorn in the side, something of a thorn in the side of government since the resumption of democracy in 1989 and has been arrested on several occasions. last year three of his sons allegedly were murdered. he says by a nigerian soldier in skirmishs in the same area and the scale of violence we witnessed over the last 72 hours because we have never seen this number of people reportedly allegedly killed in violence with the military and the issue

has become so serious that even the iranian government has stepped in and issued a statement saying they are concerned about what is going on and nigeria representative has been summoned to see the government and organizations are calling for calm and restoration of peace and a proper independent investigation of what these shiites are alleging happened, what they say the military did to various civilians in the area but as i say the military denied that there was any violence of the nature that has been described by shiites. they say in particular that the chief of army staff life was in danger and that is why they took the action that they did. >> thank you very that yvonne. voters in central african republic braved heavy fighting and intimidation by groups to cast ballots and many were unable to do so when polls initially opened on sunday and voting in the constitutional

referendum had to be out on monday and it's a test for the national elections to be held later this month. in burundi there are concerns that the security situation is worsening, the country saw some of its worst violence on friday, 87 people were killed. burundi has been increasingly unstable since an attempted coup in may. 27 men accused of trying to oust president ziza are currently standing trial and mohamed has more from the capitol. >> reporter: there are fewer people on the streets and fewer businesses open. the people of this city are still reeling from the effects of the violence where 87 people were killed according to the government, they were killed in some neighborhoods considered anti-government and the people there say the police came looking for revenge. some of those people who were killed were having hands tied behind their back and others had

bullet holes on top of their head and said it was execution style and they say the police went there looking for the people on the military basis. a town 100 kilometers away 28 people including burundi's former defense minister and five generals from the army are facing charges of having the foiled coup attempt in may and the coup attempt triggered the violence that burundi is currently witnessing and this is a landmark case that has been watched closely across burundi. independence has not brought peace to the world's newest country, two years after breaking free from sudan, south sudan is in conflict and since august there has been no peace on the ground. the conflict forced more than a million people from their homes and left nearly four million

people with severe food insecurity and morgan reports. >> reporter: with heavy heart and little hope 20-year-old rebecca believes the small camp set up here in this town to shelter those displaced by the conflict. she had brought her six-month-old daughter who was born with severe defects for a doctor's appointment. >> translator: i give birth to my child in june. it was very tough labor but this is what god gave me. the doctors said it's only in duba she can be treated. >> reporter: it has been two years since this conflict began in south sudan forcing people like rebecca to flee and seek refuge at u.n. bases. in differ war-torn areas of sudan thousands are living in camps like these and falls to aid organizations to keep supplied with food and services.

>> the challenges they are facing number one is this camp was designed to hold a smaller population than what it has right now so we have to deal with a lot more patients than our facilities were envisioned to support so that causes strain for us in terms of supplies, in terms of staffing, in terms of space like you use for constructing our facilities. >> reporter: many families live in small spaces with limited water and not enough food to feed all until the next food distribution and in august this year mostly remains despite being continued in many parts of the country. aid organizations may vary in the role they play and services they deliver but all agree on one thing, people here need peace and stability to be able to go home and resume their life. lives that have been put on hold for two years and maybe on hold a while longer if the peace agreements signed more than three months ago is not put to

practice. al jazeera, duba, south sudan. weakened as it crossed over the central philippines and one person was killed and many places left without power and about 750,000 people moved to safer ground before the typhoon hit on sunday. we will talk about the typhoon more with you everton. >> it has weakened significantly. when it made landfall we had gusts of 280 kilometers per hour and quite a powerful storm and still the equivalent of a category three on the atlantic scale and it's powerful and as it does weaken it's about the rain and seeing lots of heavy rain as the system has made its way through and 104 millimeters of rain here in 24 hours and there is plenty more where that came from and you see how it has been swirling away and the eye

of the storm in the process of easing away from the eastern side of the philippines and sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour and makes it equivalent to a strong category three storm so this really is a major system. by the time we come to around the next 36 hours or so it would have downgrade to a tropical storm and will lose intensity going through the next day or two and as it does pull away it will pull its way into southern parts of the south china sea and see it weaken quite smartly and it's about the rain as i said and looking at spells of heavy rain in central and northern parts of the philippines and the wet whether will continue to drag its way in across the northern areas and even though the storm will continue making its way further southward and westward it's really going to be about friday before we can gradually see drier and brighter weather moving in jane. >> good to know and chile asking for help to investigate one of

the largest whale strandings in history and hundreds were found on the pacific coast between april and june. and latin american editor lucille newman reports from southern chile. >> reporter: this is the strait of magellan and normally this time of year you can see whales going to feeding grounds at the tip of south america and instead earlier this year scientists discovered a mass graveyard and 30 dead whales and another 307 in the southern region of chile, a discovery that is baffling experts. marine biologist took part in the first scientific expedition to try to discover the cause. >> translator: in samples taken from the contents of four whales we found red tide a toxin poison found in sea plants but can't say what the cause was either

and why only these and not other animals if that is the case we should have found more dead sea animals and birds. >> reporter: the whales can weigh 20 tons and measure up to 18 meters and it's not certain if these died at sea and were swept to shore by the strong tide or if they were disoriented and became beached. professor an expert in marine animals say there is more than toxic red tide. >> translator: could be a virus that affected their hearing system and explain why they were beached, another reason is if they run into rocks which change the magnitude of their hearing which can also disorient them. >> reporter: for more than a century whales were widely hunted in the strait of magellan and up chile coast and sold for meat and for margarine and soap

and corsets and perfume and killing whales now is illegal and they are calling on experts to help discover what are killing the whales that are dying on these shores. the appeal is being made at this week's marine mammal conference in san francisco. >> it's something that should be studied with more detail so that is why we are asking for collaboration of international colleagues from the international commission. >> reporter: this particular mass death is considered the largest registered in such a short period of time and a mystery scientists are anxious to resolve in order hopefully to be able to prevent a repetition. lucille newman, al jazeera, chile. stay with us on al jazeera, still to come. >> i'm robin in malaysia and tell you why the mining, is

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♪ hello again and you are watching al jazeera, the top stories there has been isolated outbreaks of violence in yemen less than an hour after a ceasefire came into force a truce has been arranged to

coincide with peace talks with the war inside switzerland. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in russia for talks with sergei fedorov about syria's war and the meeting is focusing on president assad's role in the future. alliance of 34 countries with fighting what the kingdom calls terrorism and the coalition of islamicel alliance with turkey qatar and pakistan and 34 nations signed up includes those with large armies such as pakistan, egypt and turkey. and many african nations are part of it including nigeria, mali and chad. absent from the list is iran the main regional rival and iraq and syria but at the heart of the i.s.i.l. conflict also not a part of this and we have a director of the institute for public policy of the american in beirut and what do you make of

the countries left off the list and may there be a sectarian angle to this? >> well, i think there is an angle that serves to achieve the aims of saudi policy basically which has become more clear in the last year and a half or so where the saudis is taking dramatic action including active warfare around several countries in the middle east to protect what the saudi arabia people see as their interest and feel threatened and vulnerable and surrounded and feel abandon by the u.s. and a lot of issues are making the saudis very nervous and are are proactive and dynamic and taking initiatives and most of these involve warfare in libya and syria and yemen and there is no clarity that any of the saudi policies have actually succeeded and there are attempts now to create new mechanisms including this

antiterrorism coalition which follows the attempt about six, nine months ago which came to nothing so far to work we egypt and other islamic and other countries to create a coalition of multi national and military force to fight terrorism and that seems to have quietly died away so it's difficult to judge where this is going. >> is this a precursor to troops on the ground? >> it's possibly a response to two things, one is the stepped up, very vocal at the highest level of the presidency american pressure to get the saudis and others to play a more active role in the region and also the concerns in saudi arabia that the groups like i.s.i.l. and others are actually carrying out operations and organizing inside saudi arabia that already

carried out bombings and antisectarian bombings against shiites and are actively involved in terrorism and everybody wants a serious antiterrorism process or initiative including military force when necessary. the questions that a lot of people have are that the ideological and the brand of very fundamentalist islam has been heavily involved in providing the groups from which small off shoots created groups like al-qaeda and i.s.i.l. and al-nusra and others like that so it's not clear how the wahabi dominated saudi policy can fight terrorism while others accuse it of indirectly and indirectly

promoting terrorism. >> i was going to ask you about some of those players who are involved in this coalition accused of conducting proxy wars in the region and how they will get the balance to succeed and also what role you think the countries from africa are going to play in this. >> probably very little role. i think what the saudis have done is put together a group of countries that all suffer from terror problems, nigeria and somalia and other countries around the region, turkey and egypt, but there is no evidence that any of these countries have been able to seriously fight terrorism in a sustained manner because the fundamental problem, and this is something the saudis are guilty of like all the arab countries, no arab country have not addressed the root causes of terror in their societies and disenfranchised and humiliated citizens mostly young men who are unemployed with very little future and susceptible to

extremist propaganda and mobilization. the domestic drivers of extremism, humiliation, marginazation and terrorism that linear process is almost totally a domestic process in arab countries and totally unaddressed by arab political elites and ruling regimes and governments and this is where the saudis and all arab countries and turkey and everybody has to be much more involved in and certainly the u.s. and western countries have to be involved in a more honest and complete discussion about what you need to do to actually lower the expansion of terrorism and terrorist groups as long as you fight them militarily without addresses the domestic causes within arab countries there is not going to be any progress and this is the story of the last 20 years with antiterrorism on a big scale around the world active warfare but groups like i.s.i.l. and

al-qaeda they are expanding all over the region and all over the world. >> execute me for cutting you off, running out of time. opposition released tear gas in parliament over plans to improve ties with sush yeah, the sixth time in resent weeks that opposition lawmakers have done this and want the government to drop agreements and broke out from serbia after a war in 1998. u.s. presidential hopeful donald trump told a crowd in las vegas that any syrian refugee admitted now will be sent back if he wins the white house and speaking at a rally ahead of tuesday's presidential debate and seen the poll numbers rise despite his controversial comments. from las vegas allen fisher reports. >> reporter: he is the u.s. republican presidential frontrunner and a huge leader in

polls and dominates the headlines and attracts bigger and bigger crowds, this one this las vegas. >> so i heard today when they announced 14-14 and i like cruz, good guy but this is how they announced cruz surging. so what i heard, this was on television cruz surging and said i don't know that sounds bad to me coming up, cruz surging and said the cruz 41, trump 14, i said wait a minute what is going on. >> he changed the political play book in the u.s. and calls iowa dumb and numbers in iowa went up and criticized hispanics and numbers went up and called for a complete ban of muslims in the u.s. and was widely criticized and his numbers went up and supporters he is the man in the words of his campaign make america great again. >> i'm one of the biggest

supporters of donald trump and early on didn't think he had a chance and did not take him seriously as a politician and the more he talked the more i realized he is connected with the republican party and what the american people want. >> i won't say he always told everything the truth but pretty much think he is trying to tell the truth and say what he can say about things and i think he held back even. >> reporter: several times he was interrupted by protesters on gun control, immigration and stance on muslims, that is part of donald trump's problem he quites republicans and those who don't like him really don't like him. >> it was all hate mongering and getting people excited. look at the crowd. >> why did you come? >> i'm a troll. >> covered many topics and drawing tears and support. >> he speaks from the heart and is not a politician, the country doesn't need a politician and we need a leader and he is a true leader. >> i'm latino and support him 100% and everything he said is

just wonderful. >> reporter: his campaign was expected to flame out in weeks, he is still there, still fighting and still the man to beat. allen fisher, al jazeera, las vegas. malaysia in a mining, boom after they ban exports last year and is the top exporterer to china but the pace has left many worried on impact on health and the environment and we report on the east coast of malaysia. >> reporter: dozens of trucks pass the home everyday, his idea of a stress-free retirement was shattered a year ago when mining, for this increased in malaysia and the trucks start early in the day and finish late at night and ruined the road, tranquility. >> we complain to authorities and they came to visit and no one has helped, no one to help

us and our grandchildren have fallen ill and we have to bear the cost. >> reporter: involving digging up large parts of farmland and owners have given access to excavate and it is sent to china at 60 a ton and the family has to leave the home everyday to get away from the noise and dust. others had to close his open air restaurant because of the air pollution. he has rebuilt it at a cost of a thousand dollars, a small fortune for him hoping his customers will return. all roads carrying this lead to the eastern port and once here the raw material is stockpiled until it's ready to be sent abroad but journey from land to ship comes at a cost according to some members of the community. there is a real concern about

contamination of freshwater sources but flow into the ocean. >> translator: in the river that flows to the sea. we are concerned about the long-term effects on sea life and the fishermen who depend on it for a living. >> reporter: natural resources and environment minister has confirmed that mining, activities in the area have led to various environmental contamination but it's the man in charge of the state who says he is sympathetic to the environmental concerns but rules out banning the trade. >> i can't because many people are getting the benefit from this activity but in the final analysis we will give conservation to the welfare of the people at large. >> reporter: back at his house he continues to worry about the impact of mining, for bulk side and the effects it will have on his community, al jazeera, east coast of malaysia. new zealand chosen a new

flag to go up against the existing one in a vote for next year black, white and blue design incorporates a silver fern with four stars of the southern cross and went out against four options in the first phase of a referendum. so on al jazeera and still to come find out if this basketball fan could sink this $20,000 shot. ♪

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flight into the international space station any moment now and the trio are about to lift off in the space craft from kazakhstan and will spend six months in space and carry out maintenance work and scientific experiments. the rocket about to take off is russian, moscow does a lot in space and heavy lifting these days and regularly putting satellite, supplies and people into orbit but despite that all is not well in the space industry as rory challenge reports. >> reporter: lives depend on these measurements. judging the pressure wrong risks an explosive launch accident. getting it right takes knowledge and experience. thankfully both are abundant here and the first man in space in 1961 and its engineers have never stopped even though the

space port became foreign territory when the soviet union disintegrated. >> you received a task and did it and walked through the desert and maybe you hitchhiked or treked many kilometers but needed to be done and was enthusiastic and knew your country needed you. >> reporter: with the demise of nasa's shuttle program this is now the only way astronauts can get to the international space station. despite the glamour associated with space travel it should not be hard to see in many cases it's based on systems that are now decades old, 20th century technology in a 21st century world. now that is fine if it works but increasingly for russia's space industry things have been going wrong and sometimes spectacularly so this was an unmanned launch in 2013.

since 2009, 13 russian missions have fully failed, at least four more have been partial failures. in october vladimir putin headed to russia's far east and the new cosmo-drome and hopes it to be the place and according to kremlin transcripts he scolded space officials for the projects ongoing delays and touched on the suspicious disappearance of $126 million of state funding. >> translator: russia's space industry is point of deep crisis and a question of whether russia can reform the industry and modernize it. if not from the point of view of technology at least from the point of efficiency. >> reporter: russia wants to cement its position as a global leader in piloted and commercial space launches, that will be a

challenge. the space agency was recently told it will get $22 billion over the next ten years, less than half the budget it was expecting and not much more than nasa gets in a single year. rory challenge, kazakhstan. >> time for sport and what is happening? >> very interesting match last night in futbol and chelsea says his work is betrayed by players and the english champions are a point off the regular gags zone after 2-1 loss to lester and hitting home a number two and lester returned and chelsea suffered a loss and the questions of the future won't go aw away. >> and i'm not afraid of a big challenge and in this moment

it's a real big challenge. i want to stay. i hope the boards want me to stay because i want to stay. >> reporter: it's a very different story for lester whose amazing season continue with two points clear of arsenal at the top and manager insists his main focus is still on avoiding relegation. >> we play for champion but want to be fantastic for our fans because they believe, they dream, they are dreaming and it's good if they continue to dream. >> reporter: fifa corruption scandal implications dozens of futbol people worldwide and the former president of honduras raphael has flown to the united states after being indicted for

alleged links to a multi million bribery scheme and he was president of his country in the early 90s and was in charge of futbol for years. >> he traveled by himself and not accompanied by anybody and his hands and feet are not in cuffs and going to present himself to the court and the united states voluntarily. >> reporter: a total of 18 individuals and two corporations have been indicted as part of the united states investigation. this includes nine officials who work directly as part of fifa, six officials have been extradited to the u.s. pending further charges and remainder are either on custody or on bail fighting extradition. look at this goal scored in a junior league game in iriguay and the goal keeper in the final

minutes of this game, the opposition had all their players up front in search of an equalizer and that is the game. number three roger federer has no plans to retire soon and busy 2016. the 34-year-old is in uae in the dubai tennis league and swiss announced last week he was changing up his coaching team looking forward to the rio olympics next year. >> winning the silver was amazing at wimbledon during london olympics and do not feel the real olympics needs to be the singles gold like everybody talks about and playing doubles and maybe with stan and may enter myself in all three competitions to have the most possible chances to win metals for switzerland.

rugby union will establish a trust fund for the children and all blacks great and aged 41 last month and union says it was vir kully broke spending two decades battling a kidney disorder and say supporting others at the expect of himself and it will solely benefit the five and six-year-old sons. after hosting the first ever day-night test match earlier this month australia scheduling more trials of the cricket format and 123,000 fans attended the experimental test against new zealand and the record and a full round of the domestic competition will be played under lights using a pink ball and further tasks can be scheduled for next year. west indies star chris gail is returning to test cricket next year and the test level in more than two years and blaming it on

a back injury playing in a lucrative 2020 competition. the san antonio spurs thrashed the jazz for the third win in the nba and they each had 18 points for the first but it was leonard who led the way with 22 points and san antonio smashed utah 118-81 and spurs held 13 of the last 14 opponents to under 100 points. one oklahoma city fan is $20,000 richer, shane mcensi is the first fan to sink a half court shot and take the prize and tickets were an early christmas present from his girlfriend who will no doubt be getting a good gift of her own in return, that is the sport for now. >> one of the most anticipated films for years, a new star wars movie in hollywood and people camping out for days to be a

part of the opening night and the film costs $200 million to make and widely expected to break box records and rob reynolds reports from los angeles. >> reporter: stars from the original and newest verdicts of one of film land's durable franchises marched down the carpet of hollywood with jeti and storm troopers for the force awakens star wars episode seven and die hard fans are camping out in weather unusually cold for los angeles to be part of opening night, these folks have been here on-and-off for over a week. >> overnights and in the rain and in the cold and i'm from l.a. so it doesn't bother me. >> reporter: a lot of people would say people who do that must be crazy. >> i'm not crazy, we are just fans. >> to be a part of it and feel it and i'm living it, this is

the moment. this is awesome. this is a blessing. >> how excited are you about tonight? >> so excited. oh, my goodness. i'm surprised i can contain myself. >> reporter: it's expected to be the biggest opening night of the year and possibly the biggest in cinema history, three hollywood theatres have been dedicated to screen the premier. >> this is the biggest deal of the year, star wars is what everyone has been waiting for the entire year for several years everyone cares about this movie. >> the dark side. >> reporter: the movie is predicted to urn 1.5 and $2 million in box office returns but it's potentially a much bigger cash cow for disney which bought the rights from star wars from lucas for $4 billion and disney will sell toys and video games and dvds and include star wars experiences in its global

chain of theme parks. >> i think $25 billion is a very safe guess for the entire universe they are creating between the toys and the games and the movies themselves. i mean i think it's sort of beyond what we can imagine for how big this could get. >> reporter: at a toy star in swanky beverly hills a truckload of star wars perfonalia and she is part of what disney hopes will be yet another generation hooked on the saga for years to come. rob reynolds, al jazeera, hollywood. can't wait to see it, if you want to find out what is going on on al jazeera in our bulletins you can log on to our website, another bulletin coming

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