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results. and the latest on the al jazeera under cover investigation into the world of sports doping. pakistan first and at least 12 people have been killed in an explosion on targeting a government office in northwest pakistan and a suicide bomber hit an id cart and we go to islamabad and what more can you tell us about the attack? >> reporter: well, according to the police officer which is a deputy inspector general of police, this was a suicide attack which took place on the entrance of the national registration and data authority which is responsible for issuing the id cards and there were a lot of people outside that gate at the time of the explosion.

we are told that up to 30 people are wounded and that means that the death toll is likely to rise. >> any idea as to who or what group may be behind the attack? >> reporter: well, in the last few minutes, a splinter group of the taliban in pakistan, a spok spokesman took responsibility for this attack so the claim of responsibility that is owned by the taliban in pakistan. >> do we know much about this group? what can you tell us about this group? >> in the past few years pakistani military security forces have been battling that was put on many years ago they have been attacking targets in the country against authority sources and carried out deadly forms with israel and the

particular organization has splinter groups because of divisions in the group after they launched major offensive forcing many leaders to go across the border to afghanistan so the military campaign still on going in the tribal areas along the afghan border. >> thank you for that, kamal there on the explosion targeting a government office in northwestern pakistan killing 12 people. now iraq's prime minister abadi vowed to retake mosul from i.s.i.l. after declaring a strategic victory in ramadi. iraqi military flew the national flag over government buildings after capturing key parts of the city on monday and had fallen to i.s.i.l. fighters in may and this is the biggest advance by the government and sunni fighters in months and they are confident that i.s.i.l. will be

defeated in the year ahead. >> translator: 2015 was the year of liberation 2016 god willing will be the end of the presence of i.s.i.l. on iraqi soil and defeat and coming to liberate mosul and do the fatal and flow to i.s.i.l. through the unity and the greatness of our great people. u.s. spokesman for the coalition against i.s.i.l. says that the ramadi offensive is far from over. >> there is still plenty of work to do in ramadi. we still need to stabilize the remainder of the river valley and still need to work on the rest of the tigress river valley so this is a process and want everyone to be clear there is still a lot of work ahead of us. this enemy is dug in deeply in portions of iraq and still have the capability to fight, still have the capability to do harm so this is going to take time. >> reporter: we go now joined

from erbill and we heard conflicting reports there, iraqi prime minister al-abadi says the flags are flying and u.s. is more cautious, what is the reality on the ground? >> the reality on the ground is that the iraqi forces have achieved this major victory with i.s.i.l. they have captured this major government compound. it's symbolic because traditionally whoever holds this compound holds the city of ramadi. having said that it's just one neighborhood. iraqi forces are still trying to enter the central parts of ramadi downtown ramadi and the northern parts of ramadi so they are quick to say they have achieved quickly but it's not over yet. our sources on the ground tell us that iraqi forces when they attacked the neighbors from the south and the southwest a lot of i.s.i.l. fighters have retreated to the east and north so they

are still large pockets of i.s.i.l. fight theirs are still there in the city of ramadi but however the symbolism of the victory, symbolic victory for taking the government compound it actually gives the iraqi forces an impetus that they not only have the potential to defeat i.s.i.l. but they are determined to do so. >> at the same time prime minister abadi is now making mosul his focus. when will iraqi forces start their campaign on that city? >> this is not the first time that we have heard prime minister abadi talk about mosul, mosul is definitely the top prize, the highest and the number one on the wish list of the iraqi government it wants to take back from i.s.i.l. but the ground reality of mosul is very different from the fight in ramadi. mosul is a much larger city and i.s.i.l. is much more entrenched in mosul than ramadi. ramadi is very close to the

government strong line in baghdad and a place where a lot of civilians were able to provide safe passages but mosul is a completely different story and mosul is going to be a much tougher and much bigger fight if the iraqi forces try and go to it. also ramadi is not over yet. yes there is a claim of victory in ramadi but we have seen mosul in tikrit and other forces where i.s.i.l. forces disburse and leave the large population centers and continue to make the iraqi forces bleed and carry out suicide bombings and ied and trying to reach the front lines but yes they are on the front battle but the war is not over and it's going to be a long one. >> speaking to us from erbill. now we have an associate professor of international affairs at water loo university and she says ramadi is a key testing ground for the iraqi

government. >> it's a lot easier to concur than hold on to this territory and definitely abadi has been wanting this victory. the loss of ramadi was a huge blow to the confidence of the iraqi forces but more importantly was a real stain on the sort of deep professional military that are iraqi forces. can it hold on is the real challenge. will it be able to regain the legitimacy on the ground and where i.s.i.l. has conquered territory many of those places do have people who are also feeling very alienated from the central government and from baghdad and abadi although quite different from his predecessor like malaki who alienated the population abadi is saying the right things and trying his hardest but the proof is in the pudding as to whether or not iraqi forces will be able to regain that legitimacy on the ground. >> he set his sights on iezel and says after ramadi they will go to mosul to try to retake that from i.s.i.l., that is another stronghold of i.s.i.l.

do you think it will be a similar fight or will that be a more difficult fight? >> it's definitely going to be a more different fight, it's a city of two million and all arab and sunni and many minorities as well and ramadi is the capitol of anbar and the second largest city in iraq and it's a hurj challenge to huge challenge with 5,000 fighters and it may be 300 to a couple thousand at the most and the scale is different but it's a testing ground for the idea of having iraqi forces in combination with sunni tribal forces to create this i think popular bottom up type of liberation force and quite different than really important here tikrit which was liberated from i.s.i.l. but it's a disaster because of shia mobilization forces that created havoc in their way and created a

lot of mobilization on the ground. >> explain to us that particular decision to not use the shia para military forces in terms of ramadi. >> this is really vital. the shia malitia and mobilization forces, these are basically iranian back trained forces and gangs and not military and do not have allegiance as a state or multi cultural state and not being trained in the professional sense of a national army, they have in effect gangs of individuals, hired help so to speak, mercenaries so they don't necessarily follow the kinds of i think national aspirations of an army which is meant to contain and maintain legitimacy on the ground in their wake so it's not about destroy and concur it's also thinking about the day after, what happens after you concur in keeping a positive let's see reputation for the military force and ensuring they treat the citizens

fairly on the ground in their wake. israel's supreme court partially acquitted frommer prime minister on two counts of bribery and means one of his jail sentences of six years has been reduced to just 18 months. the corruption case is the largest in israeli history. let's get more now who is live for us from west jerusalem. when is he expected to start his sentence behind bars? >> well, supreme court has said that mr. olmert who will effectively become the first israeli prime minister in history to serve time in prison will start that sentence from the 15th of february. mr. olmert has spoken to the media since this ruling was made by the supreme court just around an hour or so ago. he said that he welcomed the

ruling, that a weight has been lifted off his shoulder and he was pleased he was cleared from more serious aspects of the bribery case, a case he was accused and coaccused taking more than $130,000 to help prove the construction of the holy land building development which you can actually see over my shoulder, this tall building, cluster of tall buildings which is quite odd when you give the look of west jerusalem. whatever the case he has been convicted and now sentenced to accepting around $15,000 in a separate bribery case stemming from the same time that he was the mayor of jerusalem. mr. olmert still maintaining his innocence saying he did not take any money but he accepted the court's rulings. >> the thing is he was quite a popular prime minister during his tenure. what has been the general reaction in israel to the fact

that this man who is so popular during his time is linked to fraud and bribery? >> well, this is a case that has been going on for several years and mr. olmert's name has been synonymous with corruption since then and you rightly pointed out there are sections of israeli society who generally like him and thought he was a good prime minister. still there are other sections of israeli society who are looking at this decision by the courts and an extremely disappointed. they feel that mr. olmert should have been given the full sentence of six years in prison. and this lighter sentence just under scores in their view that senior israeli politicians whether it's prime minister and in the case of a prime minister are treated far more lenient by the courts than your average person. there are several cases involving other israeli prime ministers whether they were former ministers or former

presidents, allegations again of things like fraud, allegations of sexual harassment, and many of these cases never even see a courtroom let alone a sentence and so again as we have been saying although mr. olmert certainly has supporters there are many who believe he should have been given the full six year sentence. >> thank you and olmert being the first israeli prime minister to face bars. now the chief palestinian negotiator has responded to a new report that israel plans to build a new 55,000 settlement unit in the occupied west bank. the report by ngo peace now based its findings on government data obtained under freedom of information request and says it would end all hopes of establishing a palestinian state by cutting off the south of the west bank from its center. it is also calling on the international community to reconsider its relations with

israel. >> we need to immediately knock on the door of the security council to have and to motion resolutions to the effect that not only the legality, not only asking israel to revoke but also to declare that these actions are absolutely a violation of international law and to hold israel accountable. >> reporter: israel has also warned brazil it faces diplomatic consequences if the country does not accept its choice of ambassador and objected to the appointment to the position due to his previous role as a head of a jewish settler movement in the occupied west bank, the previous ambassador left brazil last week and israeli government said on sunday that brazil risks degrading bilateral ties if diane was not allowed to succeed him. plenty ground to cover this

hour, coming up, in a little later on the program al jazeera is on the road with nigeria's army. it says it's on track to defeat boko haram rebels. relatives of the syrian boy whose lifeless body sparked worldwide outrage arrives in canad canada. >> when the players are fighting for me i always stay. >> reporter: a goalless draw against chelsea and manchester united and not the speculation of the manager's future. ♪ now hundreds of syrians trapped by intense fighting in two parts of the country have been relocated. people from the town have arrived in rebel held territory in idlib and shia supporters

from idlib arrived in damascus and we are live near the turkey-syria border, now these evacuees have arrived where they are supposed to arrive, what is next for them? >> well, basically the -- those who were trapped there arrived yesterday night to turkey and then we learned from different sources that they have crossed now to idlib an area under the control of the rebels. those who pose the condition required medical treatment were kept here in hospital in antakia. at the same time the pro-government and their families were trapped, crossed into turkey and from there they flew to lebanon yesterday night. from there they are expected to travel to damascus so contrary

to past agreement that were either put on hold or collapsed this one went as a plan. today the most powerful rebel group in idlib said it's going to ease the siege and for allowing humanitarian aid to return to the town and expecting there to be replicated and say the government now should send more aid to the rebels. >> now, is there a possibility that this sort of exchange and relocation could perhaps in the future be the blueprint for a peace accord in syria? >> it is obviously what the united nations is hoping to achieve in syria. they have realized that after four years of continuous fighting across the country. the only way out could be to bridge the gap or narrow the

deficit trust between the government and the rebels and to do that let's bring them to negotiate deals on the ground exactly like what happened yesterday so they are hoping now to have both representatives of the government and the rebels to start talks about how to move forward on the ground and then once they go to geneva next month they will have to talk about serious issues particularly the one with how to deal and establish an interim or traditional authority in syria. if that happens that would be a significant step forward and that could put an end to more than four years of fighting the civil war. >> that is significant and thank you there near the turkey-syria border. now at least 30 people have been killed in attacks in northeast nigeria. emergency services say that two suicide bombers struck a market in the town in the state and

neighboring borno state and opened fire and explosives in the city and no one has claimed responsibility. boko haram is suspected to have carried out the latest wave of attacks which come ahead of a government deadline. nigeria president gave military chiefs until december 31st to defeat the group and to maintain significant progress that it has made. al jazeera has been given access to film what was once boko haram's most fortified base and we report. >> reporter: when patrol of the nigerian military with the boko haram former stronghold, the forest has notoriety and fills many nigerians with dread. vast territory seized by boko haram. a new government and military leadership took over this area and it's now declared the group

is no longer dominant. >> daily becoming more peaceful, a better place than it used to be and believe that for every second, for every minute, for everyday things will continue to improve. >> reporter: still the military is stepping up operations, mopping up and securing areas they have recaptured. no nigerian territory has seen as much bombing as a strait of land behind me and the forest boko haram stronghold for many years has been pounded from the air for several months and it's not safe to go deep in there because of continuing military operations and of course the presence of ordinances and land mines by boko haram to stop or slow down the military from advancing. on the road one of the most devastated towns our military handlers took us through areas of destruction, a legacy of six years of violence.

>> i don't think the army is going to stay here for a very long time due to the defeat because boko haram is no longer there. >> reporter: another school occupied and ravaged before the military chased them out. in fact, girl whose are taken from this town long before the girls were abducted. >> translator: two years 70-year-old fisherman couldn't go to the river but now his new fish traps are ready to be laid. >> translator: we can go to the river and with the troops are around things are getting better and better. >> reporter: things have improved but fear remains as boko haram has carried out a series of suicide bombings recently. like many people in the northeast mohamed knows the fight for stability may continue for some time to come.

mohamed al jazeera, northeastern nigeria. belgium police arrested two people plotting new year's eve attacks targeting landmarks in capitol and took place after house searches in brussels and police say i.s.i.l. propaganda and computer material were found, no weapons or explosives were seized. belgium has been on high alert since the november paris attacks which killed 130 people. countries in central america have agreed to a pilot scheme to allow thousands of stranded cuban migrants to continue their journey towards the united states. under the agreement they will be flown from costa-rica to el sal -- salvadore and migrants have grown steadily and estimated 8,000 are currently stuck there. four people have died in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in brazil and happened in

the southeastern state of south palo and four others injured and among those rescued is a one-year-old girl but her grandmother who used her own body to protect the girl has since died. massive flooding forced tens of thousands of people in four south american countries to take refuge and brazil and argentina have been effected, the argentina president says climate change is partly to blame and as promised government aid. and we traveled to concordia where thousands of people have lost everything. >> reporter: on a boat on the streets of concordia he is trying to make it back to the house he left to escape the floodi flooding. >> translator: this was my mother's house, my brother's house, everything is under water. >> reporter: concordia is located in the providence of

rios but the flooding is not just happening here but also in brazil and others. the el nino phenomenon is reported to be strong this year and scientists fear this may lead to the worst effects in 15 years. >> translator: i've lost everything. i'm so angry. so frustrated. i worked everyday to try and have something but then this happens and everything is gone. >> reporter: we are on the second floor of this house and as you can see this area is completely flooded. this is the poorest area in this city and many are afraid of leaving their property because they fear that whatever they have left will be stolen. argentina's new president visited the affected areas and claimed that argentina and the region will have to get ready to fight a changing climate. >> translator: this frequency we are seeing in rainfall in the rise of water has everything to do with climate change. we have to use less energy and water and take care of the environment. >> reporter: he also said that

the way to mitigate effects of climate change is by building more infrastructure. and that is what people here have been waiting for years, around 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in concordia. many leave on the river banks because it is cheaper and they have no where else to go. she has been living here for two weeks and authorities have told her it will be months before she can go home. >> translator: we are thankful for the help we are getting but what we really need is a house far away from the water. my children are sick. we have nothing left. >> reporter: people here say that they are used to floods but this is the first time they have been forced out of their homes. flooding in argentina is affecting the most vulnerable and many here say that only government action can help them deal with the effect of climate change. al jazeera.

concordia, argentina. flooding in the uk as well with thousands of homes in the british city of york without power after flood damage. now this is what the devastation looks like right now. the crucial york flood defense a day after christmas and the flood barrier was raised which resulted in the unprecedented flooding. hundreds of soldiers are moving people from their homes and prime minister david cameron who visited york defended his government's record on flood defenses. well let's take a check on the weather now with robin, any chance of a break in the weather for the people in york? >> a brief break now but the news is not good. it's repeated pattern, rain, rain, and reviews not just in england but many countries this extraordinary year so let's have a look at them. i'll show you first of all a building that was erected 200 years ago and has stood the test of time until this year. when it has just been washed

away. this is which clearly is in flood. the other side in yorkshire not just york flooded but many places that are just about under water as rivers burst their banks and this is bad enough but the fact there is more to come doesn't bowed well and this was in the last 24 hours and a weak system and the sun is briefly out but behind me is a developing storm that will eventually be named frank because of wind strength, what it really packs is a massive rain and the air is very warm and considering we are in mid winter and temperatures in their teens and means it contains a lot more moisture all of which comes out in fronts like this so there is more rain to come for the same areas currently following. it's about the only part of europe where the rain is really heavy and flooding in denmark and sweden and elsewhere it's warm for this time of the year but quite dry but just now a change is taking place. this area the east has turned

nice and cold as it should. back to you. >> rob, thanks very much. plenty more coming up, on al jazeera, there is anger in the u.s. over a ruling in the case of a 12-year-old african/american boy shot dead by police. and al jazeera looks ahead to some of the big global stories of 2016 where in china as it shifts its emphasis away from heavy polluting industry. and in the sport find out who stole the spotlight from king james. ♪ bring your family and friends together to discover the best shows and movies with xfinity's winter watchlist. later on, we'll conspire ♪ ♪ as we dream by the fire ♪

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♪ you are watching al jazeera, the top stories this hour at least 18 people have been killed in an explosion targeting a government office in northwest pakistan, local police say a suicide bomber hit a center issuing id cards. israel supreme court reduced olmert prison term to 18 months and he was sentenced to six years in 2014 for fraud and bribery over a real estate deal during his time as mayor of jerusalem. iraq's prime minister abadi vowed to retake the city of mosul from i.s.i.l. after declaring a strategic victory in ramadi. the iraqi military flew the national flag over government buildings after recapturing key parts of the city. world health organization has declar declared guinea free of ebola and 43 days from the death of the final patient and no new

infection and it was first reported in guinea in march of 2014, since then 4809 people have died in liberia. 395 or 3955 in sierra leone, 2536 have died in guinea and eight in nigeria. the world health organization declared nigeria free of ebola in october last year. liberia was declared free of ebola in may but seven weeks later more cases were reported. sierra leone was declared ebola free last year. but the search to find a vaccine against ebola is far from over. nicholas reports now from a lab in sinagal where they are conducting clinical trials. >> reporter: when they come to the lab for testing, they wonder, which one of them has

been injected with the experimental ebola vaccine, one was given placebo and the other a trial vaccine and scientists looking for a cure against the highly contagious and fatal ebola virus. >> translator: we were scared and didn't know what i was injected with and didn't know what reactions it would cause and doctors reassured me it's my way to contribute to the fight against the virus. >> reporter: volunteers are not injected with ebola but with a genetic safe version of the virus and give them experiments to stimulate immune response and the other to boost it and the idea is to boost the immune system altogether to fight the virus on its own. >> translator: like any other vaccines we expect some side effects such as fevers or headaches and closely monitor

volunteers and our priority is to ensure their safety. >> reporter: it only takes 10-15 years to get a vaccine approved but scientists here are accelerating the testing phase to get the drug on the market as quickly as possible. this is unprecedented and scientists and researchers say it's justified because of the scale of the ebola outbreak and that the virus is still lurking in the environment and so it's still a threat for people in west africa. >> reporter: according to the u.n. ebola infected 28,000 people and killed 11,000 in west africa alone. the vaccines are tested on chimpanzees to carry the virus in the wild and some have a natural immunity against ebola but a third of the world population of chimps have died of the virus and scientists still don't know how the virus jumped to humans. the out break has generated fear and an unprecedented global response. it has also brought west

africans closer together and the battle against ebola is one they see as their own and so far the vaccine they are testing is working. nicholas hawk, al jazeera, decar. dr. rick brennan is the ebola coordination and response director of the world health organization and joins us from geneva and thank you very much for being with us. now the who has declared guinea to be ebola free. guinea has come a long way in its fight against ebola. how did it do it? >> it has been tremendous progress. we have been fighting this outbreak for the better part of two years. i think much credit goes to the effected communities themselves. they have really come together to take measures to limit the transmission of the disease. i think in addition there has been a strong political leadership. this has been a very complex, large scale outbreak the likes of which we have never seen

before both communities, government and international partners had to be very flexible and adapt strategies and overcome big challenges related to the weakness of health systems, poor understanding of the disease among communities so it's really been a collaborative effort among the groups, communities, government leadership and international community and great progress has been made. >> all very positive points of which you have pointed out no doubt still as you say guinea still has a very weak health system, are they able to remain ebola free with this weak health system? >> well, as you rightly say we are declaring end of ebola transmission today. guinea will enter a period of 90 days of heightened surveillance a system to detect any potential

cases early and obviously respond appropriately and i think the other important milestone here is guinea is the third and last of the three most effected countries, the other two are liberia and sierra leone to stop ebola transmission so nonetheless we must remain incredibly vigilant and will be supporting the surveillance and also the broader recovery of the health system which is really under taken major insults because of the outbreak. i think the other important point to note is while the original chain of transmission of disease has been interrupted since march of this year up to november we had ten smaller out breaks of what we are calling flairs and are new cases of ebola reemerging from the survivor population so in addition to strengthening surveillance we are also strengthening services for survivors so that we can again detect any other potential flairs moving forward.

>> reporter: why is it taking so long to develop and effective vaccine? >> well, in fact, the process of development of that vaccine has almost been record braking and as your report indicated it takes new tools and vaccines. in fact, by the time the most effective vaccine thus far developed was successfully trialed in guinea and we demonstrated it was efficacious and until development until the time of introduction was less than six months. and this represented tremendous international collaboration. we've had plenty of challenges with this outbreak but the development of efficacious vaccine and the progress made on other important tools, new diagnostic tools and new therapeutics that also look very promising have been very positive elements of the international response. >> dr. brennan thank you so much

for joining us from the world health organization. >> thank you very much. war in syria forced many people to take grave risks trying to reach the safety in europe and among them was three-year-old allen whose body was washed ashore on the turkish coast earlier this year and some family members have now reached canada and allen reports. >> reporter: ativvancouver air greets his mother and five children a few of the syrian refugees being welcomed to canada. >> thank you canada. thank you everyone. >> reporter: but there is misery mixed with joy for this family. another brother, abdue la lost his wife and two sons trying to get to greece. they drown off the coast of turkey in september. the images of three-year-old allen's body being recovered prompted outrage around the world and helped raise awareness of the hundreds of thousands of

people streaming out of syria, iraq and afghanistan. and it thrust this syrian born hair dresser who lived in canada since 1992 into the international spotlight. >> it changed my life. there is nobody. just a normal person. it's not easy. it's the most emotional, the hard thing i ever done in my life. >> reporter: since the tragedy in september she has traveled abroad with the human rights organization and met with u.n. officials, publicizing the plight of syrian refugees. a go fund me page set up by a friend will help her and her husband with expenses as they move mohamed and his family into their home outside vancouver. he will work as a barber in the new salon and as this family adjusts to a new life her joy is

tempered by nearly five years of war in her native country and the reverberation through the country. >> enough suffering and enough people dying, i want to tell the world stop the war. >> reporter: canada is expected to accept 50,000 syrian refugees by the end of 2016. allen with al jazeera, vancouver, british columbia. u.s. grand jury decided the cleveland police officer who was shot and killed 12-year-old african/american tommy rice will not face charges, the release of cctv footage caused outrage among many americans, the boy was holding what turned out to be a toy gun when he was shot. >> based on the evidence they heard and the lies that applies to police use of deadly force the grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against the

police officers timothy lawman and simply put given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and communications play all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police. indonesia about 120 fighters from the hr independence movement including their leader surrendered and has been a fugitive for more than three years with a long list of crimes including extortions and kidnappings. the fighters are said to have surrendered on the condition that the local hr government be investigated for corruption. a court in thailand has upheld the acquittal of five police officers accused of involvement in the disappearance of a prominent human rights lawyer. the decision means no one has been prosecuted for the abducti abduction, a muslim lawyer who vanished in 2004 and had been defending suspected islamic militants who accused authorities of torturing them

while in custody. rescue teams still trying to reach trapped minors in the eastern providence and sending them relief supplies in the mine which collapsed last friday. a total of 29 people have been working under ground at the time. one person has died and 17 miners still remain trapped. as the new year approaches al jazeera is looking ahead to some of the big stories of 2016. one of those is likely to be china's economic shift away from heavy polluting industries to more high tech manufacturing and consumer services. now many steel workers have already lost their jobs and there are more cuts to come. china correspondent adrian brown travels to the industrial city to see the price workers are payi paying. >> reporter: he has more time to play with his daughter these days.

and she was born months after her father was told the local steel mill where he worked for more than 20 years was closing, that was nine months ago. >> translator: with this money they bought you a whole lifetime and bought it. many people have been working hard for several decades but finally what did you get? just this money. but your youth, your time, all have been wasted. this is the biggest loss. >> reporter: he is named after the steel metal to which he devoted so much of his life. his father also worked in the steel mill. many of his former work mates pass their day drinking tea in a local cafe. for 50 cents they can sip all day, long he they too were paid off. the amount depended how long you had been with the company. but the redundancy money will eventually run out. >> translator: so we are very careful with our daily expenses and we try to save every penny

for my daughter's future and i'm not well educated and it's difficult to find a good job in this society. >> reporter: slowly the life is being drained from him. the closure of the mill has been taking its toll on the local community, forcing many businesses like these to close. the steel mill had been one of the largest of its kind in china employing more than 16,000 workers. in many ways it was the city. the mills closure is part of china's gradual transition away from the heavy industry upon which it has been so reliant for so long. >> it's been painful and it's going to continue to be painful. it's going to be even more painful. we have a global problem of access capacity. there are way too many steel producers in the world and there is just insufficient demand so china has to cutback. >> reporter: the apartments the company built for its workers are beginning to empty as many

join the search for work elsewhere. guns wife had their apartment before they met but it's a home in a town without a future. >> translator: my life is a failure. my life is very boring. i didn't study hard enough. everyday just keeps repeating itself. i thought about it. even though i took the severance pay i don't think i really hate the factory but i have to say i'm very disappointed with my life. >> reporter: he worries about his daughter's future and hopes it won't be spent here. if she can leave this place he says she can have a better life. adrian brown, al jazeera, southwest china. plenty more ahead on al jazeera, australia cricketers seal the test series to the west indies and we will hear all the details. ♪

♪ al jazeera investigation into performance-enhancing drugs remains in the spotlight. now it involves a pharmacist who once interned at an antiaging clinic the united states and he told an under cover reporter that the clinic shipped a human growth hormone to the wife of peyton manning and charlie sly worked at the clinic is in question in the state of indiana and we have this report. >> reporter: when our under cover athlete collins first met

charlie sly as part of al jazeera's investigation sly immediately demonstrated his knowledge of drugs offering him an anabolic ban in sport. over the next 12 days in 7 different meetings and more than 27 hours of recorded conversations sly gradually opened up with his contact with athletes. statements he now denies. controversial allegation is when he did part of his pharmacy training at an antiaging clinic in indianapolis human growth hormone was shipped to peyton manning's wife. >> all the time we are sending ashley manning drugs, growth hormone all the time, everywhere, florida and never under payton's name and always under her name. >> reporter: since then the clinic claims sly was only there in 2013 after the mannings moved away to colorado, not 2011 as al jazeera originally reported. now al jazeera is releasing the

phone call we made almost a month ago to confirm the dates of sly's presentation. >> thank you for calling the guyer institution of medicine. >> this is heather can i help you. >> i wonder if you can yes i need to do an employment verification on a gentleman called charles sly. >> yes. >> he is a pharmacist and i believe he did a rotation with you, is that right do you know him? >> yes. >> could you possibly give me the precise dates? >> i can. it will be just a minute. >> thank you. >> uh-huh. >> remain on the line. a representative will assist you momentarily. >> the start date where we signed for him was 10-17 of 11. >> sorry 10-17-11 okay and do you know how long he stayed with you? >> i think a couple months like three months maybe. >> great, all right that is great and sounds like you know him then. >> yes, i knew him when he was here. >> that was a month ago. now dr. dale guyer who never responded to al jazeera's

request for comment says charlie sly has fabricated his whole story. sly says everything he said when he didn't know he was being recorded was untrue. peyton manning has issued his own angry denial saying he has never used performance-enhancing drugs. however the allegation in the program, the growth hormone was shipped from the guyer clinic to ashley manning has not been denied by either peyton manning or the clinic. that leaves several key questions to be answered. was growth hormone shipped to ashley manning and if so over what period and in what quantities and can they confirm ashley manning does not suffer from any of the three serious conditions which it's legal to prescribe growth hormone if she does not it raises the question has the guyer institute broken the law? deborah davies, al jazeera,

washington. >> time for sports. thank you so much. manchester united manager van hoel says he won't be walking away from the club and a home draw against chelsea not quite what the crowd wanted to see and club are still without a win in eight league end cup games and dutchman says he has the players on his side and there is no reason for him to resign. >> of course i'm concerned but i'm much more concerned to prepare my players. and that is what i'm doing. and that i read things in the press, these are lies, not based on facts. when the players are fighting for me, i always stay because

that is the most important thing and that you have seen today. >> we are well organized and didn't have the power to hurt but i think what is important now that everyone is convinced to give his best for the team and that is what i like to see. i think it's normal to see the character of the player and the desire but they showed a lot of ambition in the last three games and is what we are asking. >> arsenal to the top of the table after beating them 2-nil and pressed for the london club and headed in the german corner to open scoring and then he scored himself to seal the victory. >> i have seen a few good games from them you know but what is important is that he is i think he convinces everybody but is

not only a talented player but a player who is ready to work for the team and very hard. >> there is always a plan. i don't think we executed it very well between them scoring in half time, second half we got better and a little bit more disciplined than what we are doing and there is a game plan to every plan in and out of possession but sometimes you have to respect and plan against because he was exceptional tonight. >> reporter: stokes 4-3 win against everton means they are ninth in the table. marco's injury time penalty, the difference between the sides and they are up into third after a 2-1 win at watford. >> maturity we show and how we fight and reaction we are very proud for our squad and players because the show was untested. >> reporter: madrid failed in the legal effort to be

reinstated in the spanish cup and were flown out for fielding an ineligible player and rejected by the highest sports court in a cup game but the winner should have been serving a ban for yellow cards he received on lone at another club. pakistan cricket board rejected one day international captain's resignation over amir's attendance at a training camp and joined the team after his five-year ban for spot fixing ended in september. last week mohamed had initially refused to join the camp but then changed their minds. australia sealed home series against the west indies winning a second test by 177 runs and west indies chasing 461 as australia declared before the start of the day and day four and jason holder put on a century partnership in melvin but they would fall for 282 and

gives australia a 2-nil lead in the three-match series and got the trophy for the 20th year. england have been increasing their lead on day four of the first test against south africa durbin and scored 73 and johnny just passed his half century, england 281 for 7 and 370 runs ahead. denver broncos in the nfl playoffs and beat the cincinnati bengals in over time and threw for a touchdown and ended with brandon kicking a 37-yard field goal with 20-17 win and denver beats the san diego chargers and the new england patriots lose on sunday and denver will get the number one seeding in the afc. nba the cleveland cavaliers beat the suns handing the fifth loss in a row, four time mvp james

put the cap at the end of the first quarter with 14 points and 7 assists in the game but with irving who shot for the cafeterias with 22 and sank a three pointer with seconds left and cleveland 101-97. first triple double for the season as the golden state warriors won 122-103, indiana pacers ended atlanta six game winning street and record 18-0 beating the timber wolves 101-85. beat the tampa bay lightning and in the final seven minutes but they tied it up 3-3 and went to over time and then a shoot out. and he got the decisive goal and montreal winning 4-3 and that is all your sport for now and back to you. stay with us on al jazeera, more news on the top of the hour. ♪

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