>> techknow - where technology meets humanity. .>> welcome, you're watching the news hour live from doha. doping on the field, al jazeera finds a link between banned sub substances and big names in america's nature sports. >> what's called the final push to retake ramadi. we'll show you what the iraqi forces up against. >> i cannot believe that this amount of damage was done in probably 30 seconds. >> residents in texas pick up the pieces of what a deadly

tornado left behind, but severe weather isn't over yet. >> attacks and arrests in the occupied west bank. we'll be live in jerusalem for more on this month's long unrest. >> our top story so far today, al jazeera's investigative unit infiltrated the world of sports doping. working with an undercover british athlete, our investigation found possible connections between medical professionals and professional athletes. the allegation involve a host of american sporting stars. we have this report. >> they're all urine tests, not blood tests. i've taken those off and on for two years. >> this shows taylor teagarden talking about using drugs banned in sport, in particular a steroid known at delta two. >> i used it last year.

yeah, elves very -- i was scared, to be honest with you. i took it for like two weeks. >> right. >> i had a test four weeks after my last administration of it. i was also taking peptides, too. >> the conversation took place in the accident in the apartment of a pharmacist charlie sly. it was recorded by a british athlete, leon collins, working undercover with al jazeera's investigative unit. at one stage, charlie offers liam a syringe. >> he pulls out this from the fridge. he goes there you go, you can have it now, if you want. >> sly goes on to name eight other athletes, major names in american football and baseball whom he claims are using a range of banned drugs. it's all part of an undercover investigation by al jazeera into what athletes call the dark

side, the alleged use of performance enhancing drugs. the professionals who responded to our request for comment denied any wrongdoing. >> we also infiltrated a doping net work in canada, we filmed a pharmacist and doctor who supply our undercover athlete with an array of banned drugs and offered to destroy medical reports to cover it up. >> we're going to be doing 10 injections a day in some cases. >> wow. >> now we're going to get into the bad [bleep]. if he want to really go black ops, i can document everything in my chart not on my own and if anybody comes sniffing for it, there's the leeway. >> charlie sly now says his statements captured on hidden

camera were false and incorrect. our correction raise whether pharmacists and doctors are taking doping to a new level. al jazeera, washington. >> michael carlson is an independent sportsen lift focusing on the nfl. he says there are conditions in modern sports that force athletes to dope. >> keeches literally at the high school level say son, you're a good football player but you need to be 20 pounds heavier. they don't tell them to do steroids or what drugs to get to get 20 pounds heavier, but the implication is there. this is a long standing problem

in american football, but more generally, we've seen to dos in other sports where drug testing has been instituted more quickly and remember, most of them are international sports where international bodies have been involved, but the survey's overwhelmingly say that when you offer athletes the choice between getting that performance edge or in some cases, keeping up with everybody else who they believe is already using those drugs and the possible long term side effects, bad effects in the future, they overwhelmingly choose to take the drugs or to say they would take the drugs in order to get that benefit. i think that's the real

eating those were working with here. >> the full study goes to air time sunday. reaction already coming in, one nfl star mentioned is the denver broncos quarterback peyton manning who issued this statement: charlie sly, the pharmacists featured in that report has responded on you tube. >> it came to my attention to the broadcaster on al jazeera has somehow recorded me saying a number of athletes. inner recordings of me were made without my knowledge or consent. it is my belief that an individual named liam collins made those recordings. liam is banned in his native

united kingdom from running any investment businesses. the statements on any recordings or communications that al jazeera plans to air are absolutely false and incorrect. to be clear, i am recanting any such statements and there is no truth to any statement of mine that al jazeera plans to air. under no circumstances should any of those statements recordings or communication be aired. iraqi recognized have occurred. several isil fighters have reportedly been killed and others captured in the raid. it comes two months after commander in a joint operation freed several captives held by as i say i'll in the same town. the bottle to retake ramadi back from isil fighters is intense filing. the iraqi army says it's a matter of days before it retakes

the entire city. the operation began on tuesday but is slow as civilians remain in that location. let's take you live to erbil. if the iraqi forces haven't encircled this government compound, they seem to be cher close to managing it. >> exactly, peter. that's what we're hearing from iraqi security forces, who are saying they are very close to this circle of buildings, which includes the headquarters, saying this is key to the heart of the city of ramadi, this is very important, as it would allow them to establish themselves in these bases that are isil strong holds and isil has been operating from it for months six it took control of the city in may. progress has been very slow. it's day six. the event in thinking that this would be in operation against a few hundred fighters and when

all of their -- the weapon that is they're using, the resource that is they're applying will be concentrated on this area, it might be easy, but it has been anything but easy for the iraqi security forces. they are facing booby trapped streets, facing do thaty trapped house us and also an array of suicide attacks, including vehicles and others. we are heading from the north of ramadi where majority of them iraqi security forces, as well as soon any tribal fighters have been killed in an isil attack and in every front they have been trying to push size as i will into. because the number of civilians involved in this very urban conflict, iraqi forces are trying to be meticulous and slow, trying to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible. >> they are en routeing stiff resistance, but we shouldn't down play the size of the operation, because they've folded into the planning u.s. led air support, as well.

>> absolutely. that's been key to this offensive, wherever the iraqi forces have tried to hit isil from all four directions, but the fighting is concentrated on the southwest and northern front. wherever iraqi forces have felt they are facing stiff resistance, there are multiple isil fighters, booby trapped major buildings and they face a lot of threat, they call in air support. they are using helicopters as well. they are using all sorts of efforts to gain control of the city, which has been an isil stronghold for months and it will be a significant gain when and if they take the city completely, because it will allow them to move north wards towards the isil stronghold of mosul where isil's base is in iraq. >> they managed to retake tikrit in april.

what do they plan to do with ramadi if the operation today is a success. >> tikrit was slightly different, because it was spearheaded by popular mobilization forces or shia militias, but what is different in this offensive is because in tikrit, there were a number of accusations from the civilian population, from the as soon as possible majority population about excesses that were carried out where property was being destroyed and they were not allowed back into tikrit. the iraqi militias, shia militias have taken a back seat in this militia and the this is spear hided by the iraqi forces. they know it will be very important for them not just to take the city, but to rebuild and rehabilitate it and the only way they can build trust among the majority sunni proplation is using soon fighters on the front line and telling people after they take the city, they will be

allowed to come back and come back to their homes. >> thank you. with northern england hit by more flooding, david cameron held an urgent meeting with the emergency services. hundreds have people had to leave homes because of rain that began early they are week. thousands are still without power. december is on course to be britain's wettest month on record. >> more than 160,000 people have been forced to leave their homes because of some of the worst flooding south america in decades. a state of emergency is declared in purr guy, an unusually strong el niño pattern is behind the flooding. eight have died in the u.s. after tornadoes hit parts of northern texas. the forecast is for more bad weather on the way. weather experts predict severe storms, blizzards and icy conditions. these pictures coming to us live out of tropical storm. those bad conditions we are told will last through the week, wrapping up all the day's events

weather wise. here's victoria. when a tornado touched down, lives were lost and homes, too. for those who survived, this is their new reality. >> i looked out my window and saw the funnel around my house and i just dove into the hallway. >> multiple tornadoes cut a path have destruction across texas, but this area bore the brunt. residents are now trying to recover what they can from their wrecked homes. >> all the neighbors, everybody, we went in and found our safe area and hunkered down for a little bit and 15 seconds later, it was over with, it was gone, next thing you know, i got a sky light in my kitchen. >> many here have been hit hard

by this powerful storm and the road to recover will be long. >> 30 seconds. i cannot believe this amount of damage was done in probably 30 seconds, but it felt like a lifetime, it did. you know, i'm sorry. >> over the last week, tornadoes and storms have swept across six states with mississippi worst affected. meteorologists are predicting severe blizzards and ice across central and eastern states in the coming days. southern california is also experiencing a weather related emergency, albeit of a different kind. this area is accustomed to wildfires, but the fourth year of drought means they start and spread more easily. >> right now, we have about 60% containment of the what we estimate to be 1238 acres for the incident. currently, there are over 400 firefighters on the line. >> the national weather service says the current storm system will continue to be a threat for days to come, but in texas residents face the task of rebuilding their homes and getting disrupted lives back on track. al jazeera.

>> plenty more to come. after more than a year, relatives of 43 missing students in mexico still don't know what's happened to their loved ones. they are demanding answers. >> a culture of complacency, japan is accused of tom rating child exploitation. sports news, one of pakistan's star cricket ears suspended after allegedly failing a drug test. >> the israeli army says two palestinians have been shot and killed in the occupied west bank after trying to stab israeli soldiers. the incident took place at the checkpoint. two israeli soldiers were injured. earlier sunday, israeli police arrested a palestinian who stabbed a soldier near the central bus station in jerusalem.

take us through what happened in this first incident. >> what we understand, a palestinian man who is around the age of 30 years old allegedly stabbed an israeli soldier at the bus station here in west jerusalem. he was apprehended by security guards who were at the bus station and he was then taken into police custody. in the occupied west bank, we understand that there was some sort of incident which led to the death of two palestinians, bringing the death toll to 141 palestinians killed since october alone. now israeli government says the reason we've seen now months of violence across israeli and the occupied palestinian territories is because of what they described as incitement, which to them means comments from palestinian political leaders

and perhaps more specifically, social media. they say that social media is really fueling this violence, but if you speak to palestinians, if you speak to palestinian leaders, they say that's nonsense, that the violence we're seeing on the streets and the protests that we've been seeing is more than anything a reaction to now nearly half a century of occupation and perhaps more pressingly, got forecast that it's now 20 years, more than 20 years sings the signing of the oslo agreement, an agreement which was to lead to a palestinian state. however, since then, all we've seen is a rapid expansion of settlements, mass arrest of palestinians and nor many palestinians a bleak future and that is why many palestinian leaders and palestinians we are speaking to says is fueling the violence. >> we've seen a spike over the past four or five days. is there any degree of coordination here or is it just the spontaneous action of

individuals? >> it's most essential the spontaneous action of individuals. i think that's why it's so worrying for the israeli leadership, because they have no solution. in fact, we've been following this unrest since it began now for the past three months, and you can almost tell that the israelis are really just not sure how to deal with this. you will have them cracking down and doing what may be culled summary executions. limits the ability to pray at the al aqsa mosque, again, it is a confusing direction or time at least from the israeli point of view in terms of how to deem with it, but from the

palestinian point of view, this isn't really some leader, an uprising with a leader. this really is as we've been saying young people specially who are rising up, filled with anger at the fact that they see no future, and as we've been saying since october, 141 palestinians killed and around 20 israelis killed in this violence, as well. >> thanks very much. >> saudi arabia says its intercepted a long-range missile. the king said it was launched from sanna controlled by houthi rebels. a ceasefire is enforce, but both sides have repeatedly violated it. more u.n. backed talks between the warring factions are due next month. whether with lives or properties, civilians are paying the highest price for the war in yemen. the saudi led campaign has meant food, water and other necessary cities are in short supply. people are adapting to new circumstances by taking to the

old ways. >> the city of taiz has been virtually under a state of siege for months, desperate for food, water and medicine, yemenis are tracking through old mountain passes with their animals just as their ancestors did. >> i walk for four hours, yes, it's an exhausting journey. >> the u.n. said people need help in the town. camels and donkeys make it possible to survive, at a time when being caught between houthi gunmen and saudi air strikes makes life a daily struggle. >> we will never surrender to the houthis, the houthis have to leave taiz. >> since saudi led airstrikes again, 5,007 hub yemenese have been killed. the u.n. estimates 21 million people need shelter, water and food. things are getting worse. in taiz, medicine is in such

short supply that the city's hospital closed its doors. for the people of taiz, these animals are a lifeline. one of syria's most powerful rebel groups says it's captured three members of the security forces in the east and killed 24 others. on saturday, the new leader vowed the avenging of the killing of its predecessor. these accounted jeopardize peace talks set to start in january. the death has contributed to the delay of a deal that had been seen as a breakthrough. the government had been planning to allow fighters into yarmouk camp to leave. that would mean that aid relief could then be delivered. we are near the turkey-syria border with more. >> the deal between the government on one hand and isil

on the other hand about the safe passage out of damascus and paving the way for the fighters and their families to pull out from those areas and go to areas under the control of isil or the opposition is still on hold for different reasons. isil and the nusra front are looking for more guarantees that the routes going to be safe and waiting for more logistics to be able to take their families in one go out of the capital of damascus. the isil and nusra fronts will have to cross areas under the control of rebel groups. they are going to intensify their military campaign to avenge the death of their leader. this whole debate about the deal between the government and isil comes against the backdrop of the renewed international push to put an end to the crisis in syria.

the syrian opposition said they are going to geneva to talk with the government about a way out. however, they say there are two conditions that have to be met, first a ceasefire with the government should be committed to stop using barrel bombs and airstrikes and missiles against civilians. number two, a political way out from on opposition perspective is the following, a transitional authority with full executive power, assad has to go. assad has been saying in the past that he's been backed by the iranians and the russians, that it is only the syrians who have the right to say whether assad should stay or go. >> syrian rebels ever retaken a major dam on the euphrates river. it is part of the offensive to cut supply lines linking isil strong holds in northern syria. >> the german defense ministry today confirming nato will

deploy nato planes to turkey to strengthen turkey air defenses on the border with syria. that follows the downing of a russian jetliner claiming russia keeps violating its air space, which russia has denied. human rights groups accuse the iraqi government of cutting corners, the families of those killed demand justice. >> isil fighters are said to have killed 1500 iraqis outside i have tikrit in june last year. this was one of the men killed. for his family, the upcoming trial isn't enough to how many the pain. >> the government keeps saying it will capture those who killed our sons, but i have still not received the remains of my dead son and the perpetrators have not been brought to justice. we want justice to be served

quickly. >> in july, 21 men were sentenced for what the iraqi government said was their responsibility for the massacre of the soldiers. human rights groups have said that the trial was flawed and evidence lacking. they hope justice will be served in this latest trial. >> those accused of this massacre have confessed to the judiciary that they have carried out mass kill ins. the case has been looked after carefully and now it's in process. >> the families of the dead are angry at iraqi government leaders and mounted regular protests in baghdad demanding justice. >> iraqi politicians, let the speaker and m.p.'s go to hell. >> others hope that they will not only get justice, but also the iraqi government will try to find where the soldiers are buried in and around tikrit. the bodies of 400 of the 1500 said to have been killed by isil have been found so far. nearly 600 suspects are wanted

in connection with the massacre. so far, only 24 have been sentenced. al jazeera. >> still to come here on the news hour, we look back at 2015 through the eyes of five families who lived through some of the biggest news events of the year. the latest report is from nepal.

>> partly cloudy. you're watching the al jazeera news hour. top stories today, al jazeera's investigative unit has infiltrated the world of alleged sports doping. our team found a link between medics prescribes banned sub mistakessensed a big named athletes involving stars from football and baseball, america's most popular sports. >> the battle to retake ramadi from isil fighters is

intensifying. the iraqi army said it is a matter of dose before it retakes the entire city. eight people have died in the u.s. after tornadoes hit parts of northern the accident. weather experts predict severe storms, blizzards andizey conditions lasting through the rest of the week. let's go back to our main news. al jazeera's investigation to the world of alleged doping in sports. she says some rules covering drug testing do need to be changed. >> athletes are being more and more careful about being directly linked to doping substances themselves. they often get packages sent to people that they don't actually know to have a completely clear relationship with those people and they send a third party to come and fetch it.

athletes are getting quite sophisticated in their ways of getting access to drugs. i don't like to think of it as a losing battle, because i think that progress can always be made and we will be moving forward in the fight against doping. i think there is definitely a need to rearrange a number of the measures that are currently taken when it comes to fighting against doping. one is to move more strongly into investigations and invest more heavily into anti doping investigations. of course, education is one of the first keys to the problem. let's get you right up to speed with a breaking story here on the news hour. we understand from our team on the ground near ramadi specifically in erbil it would be that ramadi has now been

retaken by the iraqi forces. it's taken them six days to do that. they managed pretty much to surround the city. we have been told they have managed to retake the government complex. of course, it is a big well resourced operation backed up by u.s. air power, as well. there were 350, 400 isil fighters still on the ground. we can't confirm that number. they apparently have now fled the scene. our correspondent making the point during the past four hours that they left behind various explosive devices, booby traps for the advancing forces, but it does now look at if the iraqi forces was retaken ramadi. they retook tikrit back in

april. this will be a major success story for the iraqi government if that is confirmed. you see it on your screen, ramadi has been retaken since isil fighters have fled that government complex. we'll get an update on that story if we can in the next few minutes. it is one of the most dangerous journeys in the world from south america to the united states. migrants take to get to the u.s. brutal drug cartels and authorities are all over the frame and best way through it is by hiring a people smuggler. here's what the route looks like. migrants have to travel through honduras, considered to be one of the most violent ciries on earth and get to guatemala. from here, the route continues

through matamoros. from there, they are taken into cantone. migrants are willing to undertake everything to get into the united states. >> looking for those trying to escape, this is a people smuggler in honduras. he's given us rare access to the clandestine business of getting people from here to the united states. >> a call from his latest client. >> he's a migrant like any other. we're picking him up and taking him to the safe house where he'll stay with the others who are traveling. >> luis is already packing his few clothes before a final prayer with his family. he said he can't stay in a country where jobs are scarce and violence ever present. >> i work as a bus conductor, but they always assaulted us.

the extortion is really tough right now. they kill you for nothing. >> this is his last conversation before the people smuggler takes his phone and his wallet. luis is now in his power, just like his other clients he's keeping in what he calls his warehouse until he's ready to take them north. i asked him why. >> having someone in the warehouse gives me security the family will pay. a migrant has to be there for up to four months. the family has to pay half the money. >> he said it's common to keep clients at virtual prisoners while they extract their $6,000 to $7,000 fee. in the safety of the hotel he admits more. he works for mexico's most powerful gulf cartel. he said the people smugglers were employed by one or another of mexico's powerful criminal groups. his recruitment was a painful process. >> i went as a migrant like any other youngster with the american dream and it turned into a nightmare. i was kidnapped, tortured, i saw them kill my cousin and 14 more people.

it was my life or work with the cartel, so i started. >> he said he's doing this for his countrymen and doesn't hesitate to hand over those who fall behind in their payments to the cartel. >> with pain in my heart, i hand they kidnap you, they kill you, they always get their money. they ask families for $5,000 or $6,000 ransom but then they take your life. that's what you risk. >> this time it is luis's turn to put his hands into the hands of the people smugglers. al jazeera, honduras. >> the relatives of missing students have taken to the capital trying to keep the pressure on the government to tell them what happened to their loved ones. >> the anger towards the mexican government echoed on the streets

of mexico city on saturday evening. among the chants, these are the people who are destroying our country. the agony of the families are 43 missing students has been described as a permanent torture. the men are believed to be dead, but the truth of exactly what happened to them has yet to emerge more than a year later. independent investigators say they were kidnapped after trying to highjack buses for transport, a common move for students in mexico. the investigation also found the mexican government lied and withheld information from the families. >> i have seen repression and the social demands have been growing because people are disappearing and now we are demanding to the government give us back the students alive. >> the mexican government is refusing to launch a new investigation, so the hope is that independent experts will expose the truth, but those experts say they still need some

assistance from the government. >> fortunately, the parents protest during the last year and legal action have helped discredit the government version of events. >> the relatives have been protesting in mexico city each month, with more than 20,000 people believed to be missing across the country, their activism is viewed by some as representing the conscience of all mexicans. natasha, al jazeera, mexico city. china has passed its first ever anti terrorism law coming into effect on thursday. the controversial legislation is said to be necessary to fight terrorism especially in the northwestern province. the message from a u.n. expert comes as japan record as

20% increase in the number which cases from last year. ownership of child pornography only became a crime in japan in 2014, but child pornographic content is still part of some comic books. >> it's the weekend, but she is still wearing her school uniform. it's part of the job up drumming upping business for a cafe where at adult men pay to sit and chat with teenage girls. >> some of the men are my grandpa's age and i do get short of things to talk about. >> she said it beats her old restaurant job, insisting her customers treat her well. >> they say you are kite, but i'd say there are many other cute girls here. >> it's something that her boss stays sure of selecting his staff of 15-year-old to 18-year-old girl. >> basically they have need to be pretty. this is a requirement. they should look clean and stylish.

also they need to be smart. >> in october, japan's government was in if you are rated after it was said that 15% of school girls had taken part in the dating. campaigners argue the lack of official figures is itself a sign of complacency. >> this concept has been discussed nationally as a social issue in japan for how long, like 20 years, but in japan, we don't have like data for that. that's very, very shocking. >> the problem goes beyond cafes. it's about how the culture has become accepted. it took until last year for child sexual images to become ill legal, but not so cartoon depictions. >> these could be used to

convict their young victims that their criminal behavior is normal. >> employing teenagers in adult entertainment is illegal, but it seems good for business. here, massages are on the menu. >> i can massage the girl? >> for $40 and up, we could go for a walk somewhere. next door, i'm told only chatting is on offer, but the menu lists being slapped or hit or having in our head cradled on a teenage lap. >> sometimes i explain that something like this has happened in the past, so please don't sit next to the customers. >> this is a world full of levels of exploitation, but one way or another, it's young girls being sold to older men and happening in plain sight.

al jazeera, tokyo. lets look at one of this year's most significant news stories through the eyes of the family affected. the third part of our series, one year, five families comes from nepal. april 25, an earthquake struck in the east, measuring 7.8. it was just 15 kilometers underground. 9,000 people were killed and more than half a million homes crumbled. the damage spread across one quarter of the country. the damage spread across roughly one quarter of the country. aftershocks hit nepal every 15-20 minutes. three weeks later, a magnitude 7.3 quake killed another 102 people. in june, we met a woman and her son two months after the devastating quake. she lost her husband and younger son in the disaster. their home turned to rubble. our correspondents return to visit the family and see how they're managing. >> finally starting to clear the

stones which used to form her home, when the quake shook her house, her 2-year-old son and husband were buried in the rubble. this is what she had to say when we visited her in june. >> my older son, samir, keeps saying that he misses his younger brother. he looks at his picture and starts crying. >> life has bben a daily struggle for her since the quake. >> he is still young. i have to earn and i don't have skills. i worry about how to build a house. it's not possible to live like this. the ceiling leaks with dew as if the house is sweating. it gets very cold. i have to build a house somehow. >> she has received $150 from the government to build a temporary shelter. temperatures at night drop to

freezing point and nepalis shiver in their shelters. rebuilding around the country has not started yet, because political parties can't agree on who will control reconstruction. >> back in june when we visited her, her son was petrified of leaving her side even for a short while. by now, she said, samir is much more confident, loves playing with his friends and enjoys going to school. >> this is what the school looked like in june. now temporary classrooms are open. >> we found samir playing in the school yard. after seeing him in our previous report an al jazeera viewer contributed $1,000 towards samir's education. samir said he still misses his brother, every day. >> the walls of the family's

little tin house are full of photos of loved ones who died. >> i watch t.v. and listen to music on the phone. i go outside with my friends. i try to keep my mind occupied, but at times when i see other women with their husbands, it hits me that i don't have mine anymore. an aunt says she looks at these photos every day and weeps, despite the challenges, she knows she needs to be brave for her son. al jazeera. >> our next story in the series is have two siblings from the rohingya month in myanmar. seven months after separation, they are reunited. you can watch that story on that monday. still to come here on the news hour, the washington redskins book their place in the nfl playoffs with their first division title in three years.

>> the american medical association said blood transfusions are one of the most overused therapies in the united states, but when it comes to reducing their use, modern medicine has learned from religion. >> kimberly brown suffers a number of medical issues, including a breast tumor. as a practicing jehovah's witness, she refuses any treatment that involves a blood transfusion. passages in the bible forbid ingesting blood and some believe it contains the he is essence of a person's life or soul. >> i was raised a witness all my life. that's all i know. i have complete trust in faith, that if anything happens to me, my family will be ok, but i'm

human, and i do get nervous. >> when it came time to remove the tumor, in addition to god, she put her fate in the hands of openingle wood hospital. here they cater to jehovah's witnesses and cater in bloodless medicine. >> you expect high blood loss in surgery, then you may want to make sure that the patient is on that mazed, needs to take iron, whatever to build blood counts up to prepare for surgery. if it's surgery we're not losing as lot of blood, there's nothing special the patient has to do ahead of time. >> kimberly's procedure is fairly routine, but her beliefs take a common treatment option off the table. her brother and father went through heart surgery also without transfusions. >> the practice of treating patients without blood

transfusions turned out there are medical advantage to bloodless medicine. as a result, the number of transfusions in the united states is going down. doctors can bank or recycle the patient's own blood as an alternative as in this open heart surgery. because transfusions cause an immune reaction and blood can be contaminate, it comes with risks and studies confirm what hospitals such as these confirm firsthand, less blood leads to betterout comes for patients. >> some patients, that risk is worth taking, because the good the blood might do out weigh the risks. we do between 40% and 60% of transfusions in this country for no good reason. >> while kimberly said she would risk death rather than accept another person's blood she is happy scientists are finding alternative therapies.

time for sports news. >> thank you retch. the race for the nfl playoffs continues on sunday. one team through to the postseason already is the washington redskins. on saturday, they clinched the nfc east title. curt cousins threw four touchdown passes in the 38-24 victory president philadelphia eagles. it's the third time the redskins have taken the division in three years. >> here are some of the key encounters on sunday. it's between atlanta and minnesota for the last spot in the nfc. atlanta takes on the unbeaten carolina panthers. while in the a.f.c., it's a close race for the last two wildcard places, the pittsburgh steelers, kansas city chiefs and new york jets all have a chance and all play on sunday. >> the cleveland cavaliers suffered their biggest defeat of the nba season.

lebron james and company were beaten 105-76 by the portland trailblazers. scoring a game high 26 points to help the blazers end a five-game losing streak. >> in the nhl, sidney crosby helped the penguins win. two minutes to go, minnesota pulled one back. next is a power play goal with 34 seconds left to give the penguins the victory. >> pakistan's player provisionally suspend the after failing a drug test.

he tested positive for a banned substance after the second international in abu dhabi. australia have dominated day two of the second test against the west indies in melbourne. four australian players achieved correctories in their first innings. declaring 551 for three, in reply, the west indies are 1-0 down in the three match series. on day two between south africa and england, bold out in the morning session. south africa 137-4.

>> the dutch manager may quit united, making the comments or saturday. they've gone five league games without a win. the result means man united dropped down to sixth in the table. >> i have said already in former press conferences that it is not always like that that the club has to fire or sack me sometime. i do it by myself. i am the one who wants to speak first.

>> arsenal missed the chance to replace lester at the top of the table after they were beaten 4-0 at south hampton. >> south hampton made the game very physical. we lost too many challenges, and that explains why we lost the game, but we're down to win. the second aspect is that on the first three goals, we're really unlucky. the first was offside, the second was a foul and the third was a goal kick. >> despite their defeat, lester stayed top of the table two points ahead of arsenal. man city's win over sunderland means they now have 35 points. >> sailing and wild oats, hopes of winning the race this year,

heavy winds meant that the vessel along with more than 10 others had to retire after the first night of racing. it couldn't recover from a torn main sale. >> pretty rough, yeah, for quite a while. obviously the damage, it was very dark and a lot of rain, so it was tricky conditions. nothing too extreme, but things just went bad for yours and unfortunately, here we are this morning. thank you very much. south sudan is seeing regular schism issues did he spite an august peace deal was signed. people have been leaving for decades because of the violence and a lack of opportunity. there are some who are returning home and one former refugee is using an arts project to create a sense of community. we have this report. >> inside the house is a craft. >> this is decorated with beads.

this is traditionally well a necklace with kind of like a bone decorated with fire is the pattern there. >> after 20 years abroad, she came back to help rebuild the country of her birth. >> i always had an interest of living back here. i knew there was a lot required of us and being able to contribute in one way or the other was definitely something that influenced my studies and influenced what i want to do. >> part that have contribution is an effort to preserve the culture of south sudan. this market demonstrates some traditional craft. >> you light it and use it like this. this is you use it for the smoking. >> at this women's cooperative. women from all tribes come to

make beaded jewelry. two years ago, the civil war started when the president accused his deputy of inciting a coup, pitting tribal groups. this prompted a debate whether or not south sudan has a national identity. little hope people will feel better connected through one another through cultural practices they have in common, which includes these handy crafts. >> a lot of south sudanese people grew up outside their communities, many refugees in neighboring countries. these traditional skills have been lost. this project aims to bring together the older generation with the younger one in the pope they can pass on these skills and that crafts like these can be revived. al jazeera, south sudan. lots more for you on our website, aljazeera.com, including the latest as it happens out of ramadi. london is next, we are back at the usually times tomorrow.

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an al jazeera investigation finds a link between banned substance businessed a big names in america's favorite sports. the iraqi military claims to ever retaken a key compound from isil. tornadoes ripped through the u.s.a. through the accident. south sudan is using traditional craft work to bring communities together after years of violence.