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turkish city of istanbul and the blast happened in the historic digit that is popular with tourist and understood there are casualties and no official word yet on the cause of the explosion, let's get the very latest from al jazeera's rena who joins us from there and what is the latest? >> reporter: we are right in front of the blast site just behind me is a blast site and is the hippo syndrome parts of the square and we understand there is no official confirmation yet but turkish t.v. and eyewitnesses are reporting that what could be a suicide bomber caused an explosion which now the governor's office says has killed ten people and injured 15. we have spoken to eyewitnesses here and they say that around 10:20 this morning one said the earth shook. another said that they thought they heard thunder and they

looked up in the sky and saw it was a sunny day so we understand a powerful blast which could be heard from other neighborhoods surrounding me shook this part of the country. >> and at this point in time nobody has claimed responsibility. >> reporter: no, there are no claims of responsibility yet. we just to give you an idea of where we are, we are at the very heart of istanbul's historic district, we are at the very heart of istanbul's city center if you like, i'm staring at the mosque and behind me is the blue mosque, the grand bizarre is about a kilometer over my left shoulder and this would have been, this is if you like the heart of the city's tourist infrastructure if you like and we understand that it was a rather quiet time for the square, 10:20 would have been in

any case a rather quieter time of this square which gets usually going after 12:00 but we have seen eyewitnesses who expressed some anger and said how can a suicide bomber walk if it is indeed a suicide bomber this eyewitness was saying how can they walk into the city's arguably near the most known square and do something like this. >> it's difficult to be specific about things at this point in time because it's still very early days of course but try and give us a context of this with the resent history of attacks within turkey. >> well, i.s.i.s. has been blamed for two attacks in the last year. one and a double suicide bombing at the ankara rail way station which killed over 100 people and those attacks were blamed to

turkish off shoot if you like and said they were inspired by i.s.i.l. >> and also there is some suggestion that the three options here people are talking about i.s.i.l., people are talking it could be kurdish pkk fighters, it could be islamic militants and talking about i.s.i.l., it's very difficult to know exactly who it could be at this point in time but there are many people who security forces would be concerned about. >> definitely and i think you can tell by the heavy deployment of police, i've been living in the city for over two years now and have seen police deployment and this is quite something else and also they got here pretty fast the turkish security forces even in the last two hours prayed for how quickly they have been able to get here. some of the eyewitnesses were saying that basically that the

earth shook, a kiosk owner said the earth shook and soon afterwards they saw body parts here. >> this is, as you say, a very important tourism, very important tourism area and tourists flock to this area but this time of year don't do so in numbers and how many tourists would there be at this point in time in early january? >> early january, well it depends. as somebody who has been living in the city have witnessed a significant drop of tourists coming to the city just generally speaking there are less tourists despite it being winter. you would of course have over 50 million tourists a year and you would be getting most of the tourists coming in summer. on a january morning at 10:00

a.m. i think we are lucky that there were not so many people here. >> absolutely. and this is actually an easy target ultimately if you want to hit a soft spot within istanbul this is it, isn't it? >> it is. it will send this through the tourism industry which has somewhat arguably struggled after the downing of the russian jet and generally speaking after the events in ankara this will will have quite a significant impact on the city's and the country's generally speaking influence to tourists. >> so let's have a recap of what the situation is in istanbul and we had a powerful blast around 10:20 a.m. in the heart of istanbul's historic tourist district close to the famous blue mosque and hyatt-sophia and

suggestion it may have been caused by a suicide bomber but not confirmed in any way and one eye wait said he saw somebody who may have been a suicide bomber and still waiting for confirmation on that and a powerful security ring set up around the scene and several reported killed and people in istanbul and living on a heightened sense of security. okay and we have a scholar at istanbul policy center and columnist and he explains what he saw. >> this is the major tourist area of the town and i have sophia and the blue mosque are there and it's crowded with tourists all the time during the year. so what i can say is that there are two humrumors is a witness seen a suicide bomber and a human bomb and another witness

it's reported by a newspaper all right ten people dead, but there is you know a ring of ambulances coming and going and so far we don't know more than this. the police have sealed the area and unfortunately what i can say in one word is that, you know, islamic terror may be but at least terror has arrived in istanbul and it's clearly a message to the tourists. >> giving his view of events of the blast that has taken place in istanbul's tourist district that took place about 10:20 this morning. there are fatalities reported and no claim of responsibility at this point in time. we will have more from turkey as we get it. ♪

to other news the u.n. humanitarian chief says 400 people must be brought out of the syrian town of madaya for treatment and made the call as food and medicine reached three besieged towns and under a deal with the government an envoy arrived and delivered to the other villages and opposition groups are surrounding these places but many areas are not included in the deal and eastern guta176,000 people are said to be urgent need of help, 9,000 trapped in the damascus suburban the towns and the u.n. says i.s.i.l. fighters cutoff 200,000 people in parts of the eastern part and james base reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: trapped carrying food and medicine arrive in madaya a town of more than

40,000 people where they have been eating their pets and after that survived on a diet made of soup from grass. >> translator: people killed cats to eat them, others ate grass, i saw people sitting on garbage and eating from it and we need to break the siege. >> reporter: 28 people have starved to death but at the u.n. the syrian ambassador seemed to dispute all this. >> the information concerning the humanitarian situation in madaya is based on false information. we have seen reports of deaths, some in the last few hours, we have seen pictures of starving people, others are fabrications? >> yes, indeed. >> reporter: so reports of mass starvation issued by the united nations and other humanitarian agencies and these deeply disturbing pictures of the town's population including children suffering from malnutrition are he claims fake

but he also seemed to have a different second explanation. >> the terrorists are stealing humanitarian assistance from the syrian red crescent as well as from the u.n. and keeping the assistance in the warehouses and they use it as a leverage of political and financial gain for them. >> reporter: the u.s. ambassador samantha power told the u.n. general assembly she had no doubt who was to blame. >> look at the grotesque surrender tactics the syrian regime is using right now against its own people, look at the haunting pictures of civilians including children and even babies in madaya, syria and these are just the pictures we see, there are hundreds of thousands of people deliberately besieged and starved right now and these images they remind us of world war ii. >> reporter: but on the ground in madaya one woman seemed to

back the syrian's ambassador's explanation. >> the situation here is so bad and before the siege we used to live a proper life and when rebelled entered and acted as we know entered true colors and at the beginning people were deceived but now it's clear, they are nothing but traders of people's blood. >> reporter: getting to the truth in the chaos and turmoil of syria's long war is very difficult. the camera crew who filmed these pictures were operating under syrian government media guidelines. sierra remains a country where it's difficult to speak freely and basic humanitarian needs and access to food is being used as a weapon of war and the u.n. says it needs the urgent evacuation of 400 people from madaya who need life-saving treatment, james base, al jazeera, u.n. this is the scene in

istanbul where a blast took place at 10:20 a.m. this morning in the tourist district near the famous blue mosque and sophia and casualties reported, at least ten are being reported killed, 15 injured following this explosion at this popular square. police have quartered off the area and as i said happened in the historic district. no yet official claim of responsibility at this point in time. let's go to andrew who is in istanbul and covered turkey for 20 years as a correspondent and cofounder p24 to promote independent journalism, andrew what is your take on what we are seeing in istanbul right now? >> clearly this is the heart of the very center of the istanbul tourist industry, very few visitors come to istanbul without taking a look at the blue mosque, without going to the pippa syndrome and the bomb

appears to have exploded whether it's a suicide bomber or not we are not clear and exploded in a 3 1/2 thousand-year-old monument in the city and this is clearly an attempt to tell tourists to stay away from turkey, nick. >> attack like this kind is terrible at any time but this actually is actually a relatively quiet period for tourism in istanbul and it could have been a lot worse. >> it could have been a lot worse and as you say it's a january day, the sun is shining however. of course a lot of tourist have stayed away as sort of informal embargo on russians coming to turkey that is affecting the coastal cities but we do believe that among the dead there were some foreigners so it has been a tragedy for both. >> right and there is no claim

of any responsibility as of yet but the potential culprits, there are several of them, aren't they? >> the usual suspects as you say. about this time last year there was a suicide bomber in kind of a police station not far from here and that we believe was an i.s.i.s. bombing, i.s.i.s. is angry at turkey for its support of the bombing campaign against it. there is of course the possibility that this was affected by kurdish disidents and there is at the moment a siege going on in many kurdish in the southeast and terrible casualties and people who are basically under curfew in the southeast of turkey and ignored and may be attempt to draw attention to that situation but of course it's anything i say would be speculation. and the government is feeling this is speculation by imposing

a reporting ban on today's events and one of the first thing it does when there is bad news in turkey is they slap a sort of temporary reporting ban but this appears to big neared by the government's own television network. >> if it is i.s.i.l. as we have been saying there is no confirmation at this point in time, the government may then reflect on its border policies, how they control security and the to and fro of people across the border between turkey and syria. >> well this of course would be shutting the barn door a little too late. the conflict has been going on for a long time. there has been a fairly porous border between syria and turkey for sometime and the turks tried to restrict the trade, the passage of people across that border but it's a very long border and a lot of people smuggling and a lot of people crossing that border of what seems to be a certain amount of

kiniving and it's hard to eliminate that i.s.i.s. threat if that is in deed what is responsible for today's attack. >> plenty more on this as we get it and still trying to assess precisely what is happening here and how many casualties there are, as i said at this point in time there is no claim of any responsibility. lots more coming up, on the al jazeera news hour including bringing the classroom to the children and nigeria is educating those who are displaced by boko haram on the war on learning. what is described as the biggest doping scandal in australia's history. ♪ oil prices have hit a new low plummeting to less than $31 a barrel. it is the lowest level in more than a decade and industry

experts say it could plunge even further and at the peak of july 2008 a barrel cost more than $137 and fallen to $30 a barrel and that is great news for people filling up their cars or cost of heating a home but bad news for oil-producing countries and none are getting enough for oil to cover their cost and some are considering devaluing their currencies and some defaulting on their debt, on the brink, and let's go to abuja and oil a big, big part of the nigerian economy and probably the most i'm part, what is the situation there? >> well, that is right. and earlier on tuesday nigeria's minister of state of petroleum speaking at a conference at united emirate said there was perhaps a need of an urgent meeting of opec producing countries like nigeria and he said there needed to be perhaps a rethink, a strategy rethink, a

policy rethink given the plummeting price of oil. now despite the falling twice of oil opec has not cut production because the saudis who makeup the lion's share of the oil produced don't want to cut production as a mechanism and try an increase the price and hitting hard like nigeria and algeria and venezuela who rely almost exclusively on income for the production of oil. what the minister has basically been saying is that several countries have spoken to him privately, he is currently on nigeria and currently holding the presidency of opec and want an urgent meeting prior to the scheduled june meeting and hoping to have a meeting in may and what is prompting this particularly from the nigerian, nick, as you just said there is an introduction and this count interest i relies almost exclusively on the sale of

income and the country just put together the annual budget that came to $301 billion and they benched mark the price of oil around $38 a barrel but if we are looking at what we are hearing today and knowing the price of oil is around $31 a barrel some predict organizations and morgan stanley said it will fall and this will be incredibly different for the government to meet obligations and the promises it has made to nigerians and looking at borrowing money but wouldn't be able to borrow the kind of amount involved for the kind of project they want to carry out so it's critically important to countries like nigeria or opec to sit down and perhaps rethink how they can try to bolster the price of oil again so this country has the income it so desperately needs. >> we will leave it there, thanks very much indeed, the latest from abuja in nigeria.

ordered opposition national assembly to remove three politicians and ruled acts passed by the assembly will be void until an investigation is carried out, and the party accuses the three of irregularities from last month's election and more from caracus. >> reporter: any decision the national assembly takes or has take then the past will be considered null. the supreme court considers the national assembly to be in contempt of court after the national assembly decided to go ahead and swear in three of the legislators that the court has decided that they needed to investigate further following allegations that there had been fraud during their election in the december polls. the national assembly had insisted on swearing in the three legislators because it's thanks to them they occupy two thirds or the super majority of this newly sworn in opposition led assembly. it's also the first time in 17

years that the assembly is ruled by the opposition so this is clearly what many here think could be the beginning of a change and one that the government is trying to minimize or neutralize through differ measures, this being the latest of it. the consequences the decision could have is president miduro could address the country in the yearly state of the union speech not from the national assembly but rather from the supreme court. iraqi rescue workers searching through the rubble of a bombed out shopping center in baghdad and 50 killed and injured when a suicide bomber stormed in. i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for the attack in the mainly shia muslim district of the capitol. [gunfire] u.s. commanders in iraq are appealing to residents in the city of ramadi to leave within 36 hours, the iraqi army and coalition forces preparing to target specific areas with air

strikes and artillery to try and oust i.s.i.l. fighters and resisting efforts to force them out of the city center. let's move to the weather now and it's more like windy conditions in europe. >> finally and change has prompted the cold air to finally come down but it was told for a time and now it has gone windy as well. i have a couple pictures for you. on the shores here just north of the shell the waves are breaking beautifully now. this is what you expect in the winter. just hasn't been there before. the strong winds are not just in here and come down north of spain and affecting mediterranean and not far away with winds also attacking the shore and wind attacking the shore brought in by the wind and it turns story on this side of europe and even reached lake geneva which is usually not that rough so it's all changed here. we brought in the cold air long way south, tucked in now behind

this cold front so the edge of it now, we got the winter scene you might expect for example. there is know on the ground and expect that for sweden and poland taking it on much the same as germany and have not been used to seeing it. however what we have done is tucked warm air in the southeast corner including istanbul and it was snowing about a week ago and the snow is there on the european plain and across germany and the alps for the next two or three days or even more nick. >> thanks indeed and supreme court judges in the philippines backed government plans to allow the return of u.s. military bases and navel and air bases shut down in the 1990s now it's the center of rising tension in the south china see with artificial islands and air strips and argued a bilateral

security agreement is unconstitutional and surrender sovereignty to the northern american colonialists. barack obama promises the state of the union address will not follow the usual script and patty looks ahead to what is expected in washington later. >> willingness to take responsibility for our future and for prosperity. >> reporter: he addresses congress to detail how he sees the state of the union. >> business leaders around the world. >> reporter: this last time it's all about legacy, he is expected to focus mostly on his past accomplishments. >> presidents are often in this sort of last year of the presidency looking to set a narrative about who they were, what they did and how historians and really the public should judge them for the rest of their lives. >> reporter: he will be addressing members of congress but really talking to the american people watching at

home. >> help me make it happen. >> reporter: trying to get them excited for the coming electib a final push to get his party back in party and seeing this online. >> it's what i want to focus on in this state of the union address, not just the remarkable progress we have made, not just what i want to get done in the year ahead but what we all need to do together in the years to come. the big things. >> reporter: this is a president that has had a very difficult relationship with congress, that was apparent at the beginning of his first term when he was haeckled by a congressman. and in last year's address. >> i have no more campaigns to r run. [applause] my only agenda -- i know because i won both of them. >> reporter: what house officials acknowledge they are unlikely to get congress to act

on any big issues but he will ask them to pass criminal justice reform and the trans pacific partnership pact. >> we are not afraid. >> reporter: expected to warn them if they don't act on issues like closing the prison at guantanamo bay cuba he might on his own and this president is defining legacy with one year left looking to add a few more accomplishments with or without congress's help, patty with al jazeera, washington. legal appeals by a drug gang boss could delay his extradition to the united states and guzman or el chapo was captured on friday and has been looking at newly released video of the much talked about arrest. >> reporter: a deadly raid caught around video by mexican marines and gunfire from both sides as ra means look for the most wanted man el chapo guzman and at one point he is down and a marine voice is saying we have

an injured man. grenades and bullets and five killed in the raid and el chapo not to be found and marines call out where is he, look for him and ask the woman where he is and she says i don't know. he slipped in the sewers and crawled for a few hundred meters before surfacing and stealing a car from a woman driving by. mexican authorities soon caught up with him and under guard at the same maximum security prison he was in july and mexican officials say it could take at least a year to extradite him to the u.s. where he faces charges of drug trafficicing, money laundrying and murder and lawyers will file as many motions as they can to delay the process and mexican authorities are keen to get him in the hand of authorities as soon as they can, turn around from 2014 when they refused to extradite them but the pressure on mexico to hold on to him as long as it

takes to make sure that extradition is successful, adam rainy with al jazeera mexico city. coming up, we will have the latest on that blast in istanbul, in turkey that killed at least ten people. plus we will have sport, chicago bulls lose to the washington wizards and we have action from the nba later this hour. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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15 injured after an explosion at a popular istanbul square and took part in the european part of the city a little after 10:00 a.m. this morning. the area has now been quartered off by police, there has been no claim of responsibility for the attack at this point in time. istanbul's historic district is located in the european side of the city. and holmes reports on what has happened in the last few hours. [sirens] it's the heart of istanbul and one of its most popular tourist spots, this is the square less than an hour after an explosion, the site quartered off and security tight. >> we understand that from eyewitnesses that it was quite a powerful explosion and nobody has commented yet on the reason or the cause of it. it took place in the square and

the mosque. >> reporter: istanbul the biggest city and the square is a draw for tourist and turks alike. the district is home to the museum and istanbul's iconic blue mosque. this is the latest blast to hit turkey. in october at least 102 people died in a double suicide attack on a peace rally in the capitol ankara. the violence copies with a back drop of ongoing operations in the southeast of turkey and almost five-year civil war along the southern border with syria. and the district has been locked down and its people left be w d wildered. we heard from correspondent

rena and is live at the scene of where that explosion took place and any more news for us? >> let me talk about the square right now and we have police helicopters circling above us and also have searches being conducted by the police outside the court and this is in case there could be, if the reports we are hearing of a potential suicide bomber attack are true the police tells us in case there could be a second person so at the moment searches are being conducted around us of pretty much everyone outside the perimeter, apart from that no claim of responsibility just yet. the authorities have not pointed at the cause of the blast. as i was saying earlier turkish state t.v. and eyewitnesses have hinted and the police have said they are looking into the

possibility of this being a suicide attack. the death toll remains at 10 with 15 injured and also understand and also reports that one peruvian and one german national have lost their lives. >> all right i'm leaving it there for the moment and back to you as more news comes in and thank you very much for that update from the troubling scene from istanbul. another top story oil prices hit a new low less than $31 a barrel, the lowest level in more than a decade and industry experts say it could plunge even further and let's take this on from an economist and a member of the saudi council and welcome to the program, sir. what is your view on this latest development, this latest drop in prices? >> of course it's worry some, oil has fallen to about one fifth of what it was a few years

ago at $143 a barrel in 2008 of course it stayed only for a while and it went down after that but it levelled or averaged about $100 a barrel in 2011, 12, 13, early 14. so for the price to fall about $1 0 0 a barrel to one-third of that it's a huge drop especially for countries like mine which depend on oil for its revenue. >> and so what are the implications of this? we got countries like nigeria calling for opec to do something about it, are we going to see any action? >> well, i hope so but i don't think it's only opec and the question has always bent forwarded who should be responsible for maintaining the price of oil. countries like mine and middle east in general the cost of production is low and estimates from the ten to the low 30s a

barrel of oil even if oil is dollar 30 saudi arabia is making money from selling oil. country like united states of america, the main producers are u.s., ussr and saudi arabia so u.s. and ussr have much higher costs, much higher costs and basically it is u.s. production, increasing u.s. production which is causing the current and not saudi or opec production, it's mainly the jump in u.s. oil production that caused over supply and over supply is not huge and estimated to be 1.7 and less than two million barrels a day so if we take total production of 100 million and 2% of all oil producers agree to reduce the production by 2% that disappears and of course we still have stocks at record levels but at least the daily

over supply disappears. >> very large reserves in the gulf country so to an extent they can set it up and how long can this go on before it starts causing a real problem for countries particularly? >> it built the budget at around $40 a barrel and if oil goes to $30 that translates to about $20 million but saudi arabia has about $600 billion of reserves so that is less than 10% so saudi arabia is in a very good position to work around this and country like middle east and russia and heading into recession that may have a huge problem financing the difference. so these countries especially

russia, large producer should cooperate if they want to support oil prices and stop this decline. they should pitch in and reducing the over supply. >> and then we have countries like nigeria and venezuela who totally rely on income from their oil economy. >> exactly, exactly but not relate to opec. the reason we have this huge problem now is it's a very small surplus amount, less than two million barrels a day, out of total oil production the world 290 million is 2% and 2% could be absorbed by oil producing nations if we all pitch in and don't look for opec to be the only one to sacrifice and oil production comes like russia, siberia and shell oil and canada

and these countries are continuing the highest costs, why should they be the ones not cutting down production, actually production is falling down right now because of oil prices and oil is elastic demand and supply and you stop investing and the number of rigs and drilling in the state is going down and with estimates. this will show gradually over the next few months and i have no problem expecting the surplus to be absorbed and supply will decrease and meanwhile don't forget the low price of oil is an incentive for any economy or most economies and oil is the primary energy source, transportation, heating, transport, all this comes from oil, so a low price of oil should increase demand, you know, and happening right now it's difficult to observe the

1.7 million barrels extra. >> we have to leave it there and appreciate your perspective on getting your take on these developments, thanks very much indeed. lawyers in indonesia called for the release of a muslim cleric jailed for supporting what they said was a terrorist training camp and review opened and ajoined in the case of bashir who is serving a 15-year prison sentence and we were at court as he made his first public appearance in five years. >> reporter: supporters are venting their anger at the district court in a town in central java near the island where he is in prison. security in town and at the court is tight. bashir is the spiritual leader which is internationally recognized as a hard line islamist organization. in a statement bashir endorsed

the armed training camp that led to conviction in 2010 but insists donations to the camp were meant for humanitarian purposes. >> translator: my role in this group is unimportant and received the heavy punishment and it's a conspiracy and not a fair sentence. >> used this as an opportunity to lash out at police, prosecutors and judges. >> translator: the name of bashir is never mentioned in the primary allegation at the beginning of the hearing. he is not involved in the mentioned terrorist act and why does he become a terrorist in the following hearings, the verdict is a mistake. >> reporter: hundreds of supporters traveled many hours to show their anger of the conviction, emotionally they demanded his imminent release and it's now up to the supreme court to decide if evidence presented five years after

conviction will be enough to release him. from the prison alliance to i.s.i.l. in 2014, his son says he has since withdrawn his support. >> translator: i believe he doesn't support them any more. he has changed his mind. the problems are not like what he thought before. >> reporter: the court is expected to hear five witnesses, two weeks from now, in february the supreme court is due to decide if their testimony is about bashir's role are enough to release the 77-year-old from prison. al jazeera, central java. >> reporter: back to istanbul, the scene of that explosion that took place right about 10:20 a.m. this morning in the tourist distri district, the home of the blue mosque and eye of sophia and 10 killed and 15 injured and police quartered off the area and

investigating preparing in the event of a second attack should there be one there has been no claim of any responsibility at this moment in time. let's take it on and speak to the foreign minister who is on skype and live from ankara and welcome to the program, what is your view on what has happened in istanbul? >> unfortunate event and unfortunate terrorist attack and this is in turkey. we do not know which terrorist organization committed this crime and this act. but if pkk threaten turkey -- let me turn off the phone. just a minute. [phone ringing] i turned it off. they are threatening that they

could carry the terrorist attack over the area. this may be them but of course we should not preempt and put the blame because of the claim of responsibility. >> right, and there are areas of course and the fingers may well point at i.s.i.l. for this atta attack. >> because i.s.i.l. started to suffer from turkey mission attacks carried about in syria and many americans say the take off of the airport which is located in turkey and it may be i.s.i.s. and another top contracted organization may have done it. there are many possibilities, but without a police

investigation it will be too early to say and to put the blame on one of them. >> if it is i.s.i.l., big if at this point in time but if it is it would cause a bit of a cloud over the government policy as far as controlling the border between turkey and syria which has been fairly easy to infiltrate. >> actually it's slow in taking measures or tougher measures against i.s.i.s. but in the point of time where we are i still think that turkey is doing less than it could ultimately o do. the measures are tightened but for the border crossing and they are depending on the potential of i.s.i.s. >> appreciate that, former

turkish foreign minister joining us from ankara, thank you. >> thank you. still to come on the prog m program. >> 2015 goes to this man. >> reporter: star matthew the best player in the world named for a fifth time. ♪

♪ welcome back and to nigeria where classrooms have been taken from children who had their old

ones blown up and boca targeted schools and robbing kids of education and estimated more than a million have been displaced during the past six years of conflict and now the government is setting up mobile classrooms and we report now from maiduguri. >> reporter: finally attending school, like everyone in his class he fled from his village after boko haram attacked and occupied it. the armed group is opposed to western education and has killed tens of thousands in nigeria's northeast. >> translator: warn us not to go to school and if anyone disobey the punishment is death. now in the camp we get food and education. >> reporter: the nigerian government and development partners are providing mobile classrooms like these to help children displaced by the violence catch up on their education. >> in collaboration with time the president in the northeast we have established mobile units

and mobile units is a classroom that is fully equipped with furniture and even generators and electricity and solar panels and wash facilities and it's really all fully equipped classroom that can host 40 children which is standard ratio in terms of students and teacher ratio. >> reporter: but even with these classes running in the morning and afternoon the facilities in the camp are simply not enough. as many as 70% of children in borno state attended school before boko haram violence and that figure significantly increased over six years after two million people have been displaced. most schools have been destroyed and hundreds of teachers killed. although the mobile classrooms may not be enough they offer children a new start. little selma has been around violence since she was born but

she has impressed many. the mobile classrooms are offering her a chance to chase that dream, something 11 million other out of school children are not able to do. moham mohamed devries al jazeera. moving on to sport. >> thank you nick and more than 30futbal players hit with drug bans and found 34 past and present players guilty of being injected with performance-enhancing drug and the australia league initially cleared the players but it was not by the doping agency and a doctor found to have injected the players with pep tied that promotes muscle growth and players said they were unaware they were given illegal substance but a court panel ruled they were significantly at fau fault. >> this entire episode has

chronicled the most devastating case of self inflicted injury by a sporting club in australia's history. and this self inflicted injury began with a decision to embark upon an injections program designed to give the sporting club a competitive edge against its rivals. >> we have maintained a consistent position these players did nothing wrong and today's decision does nothing to change our view. it's important to note the players took all reasonable steps to ensure themselves what they were given was complying with the code. they expressly sought help with supplements to be provided were in compliance with the code and written documentation to this effect. andrew thomas is in mel burn and says the impact of the case is

being felt in the entire league. >> reporter: the verdict by the international court for sport could not be worse and the court found a systematic performance enhancing took place and the punishments are harsh and employers involved will have bans and that means they will miss the up coming season entirely and 12 still play and that wi that will dessimate their league and then there are financial implications and huge legal bills associated with this case and that individual players may well soon with the club even though they are found individually at fault the players they will say they have reputation of damage because of a system of doping that was administered and managed by those running this club. the bill could reach many

millions of dollars. >> we go to the former head of the australian sports antidoping agency and richard thank you for joining us on al jazeera should we have sympathy with the players in this case who say they put their trust in their employers? >> look, i mean this is a very difficult situation for the political players and i think it is appropriate to have some degree of sympathy but at the same time they are ultimately responsible for exactly what they had received and the court of arbitration for sport has found that all 34 of them did receive performance-enhancing drugs. >> you said the australian antidoping agency is unlikely to pursue a case in the same way again, what have we learned since this case began in 2012? >> well, this particular case has been going on now for more than 1,000 days and i think nobody would be in disagreement that the length of time that it has taken with this case has been far, far, far too long and the case itself has been played

out far, far, far too publically and allegations have been in the public domain for a much longer period of time than they needed to be. this type of case will never be done in this way again, it will be done faster and more effectively in the future. >> richard what can you tell us about the drug that the players are accused of having been given? >> well, the players have been found guilty of using a drug called thiamocinbetafal and it's a pep tied with performance enhancing properties in terms of building muscle strength and muscle rejuvenation and ban for a good number of years and used systematically at the club as determined by the court of arbitration for sport. >> if what is coming up, with iff in the coming days doping control is in the spotlight at the moment, do you see a future where doping control is taken out of the hands of individual

sports? >> well, i think one of the things that is very clear from what we are seeing at the iaaf and what we see with the australian futbol league is sports have a massive conflict of interest in promoting this forward and promoting their athletes while at the same time being asked to put in play some quiet, tough rules and regulations which may throw various athletes and clubs out of the competition and that is a conflict of interest and proven to be a problem to the iaaf and a problem to the australian futbol league and time it was taken from sport and managed by an independent sport authority. >> the former head of the australian sports antidoping agency and thanks so much for joining us here on al jazeera. messi named the best football baller in the world for the fifth time in his career. >> 2015 best baller goes to

messi. >> reporter: there is the 28-year-old barcelona forward picking up fifa in zurich on monday and the first time won since 2012 and renaldo was second and namar in third. >> translator: i accept this prize with sincerity and i'm enjoying it and always thinking of the fact it is thanks to the team and my teammates, all we have been able to achieve this year, this is what enabled me to receive this prize today. so i'm enjoying it and sharing it with all of them. >> reporter: but munich the manager apologized to his english counterparts for the decision to go to the premier league and the training camp says he is sorry if news of imminent arrival increased pressure on some english based managers. >> a guy who needs to nknow and

meet new things and is the only reason why so in my career it will not finish i hopefully will not finish in english and maybe i will be curious to go with i don't know so after that i said many times i would stay here for a long time. here is the perfect club. >> reporter: nba the golden state warriors extended the winning streak to 26 regular games and beat the miami heat on monday and over in chicago the bulls lost their second game in a row, this time at home to the washington wizards, john got 17 points for the wizards and won 114-100. okay plenty more sport for me later on and thanks nick. >> thanks indeed and that is it for the news hour and we will have more in the forthcoming news bulletin in a couple minutes of course on the blast that took place in istanbul around about 10:00 this morning.

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♪ at least ten people are killed and 15 are injured following an explosion at a popular istanbul square, we will have a live report. ♪ hello i'm nick clark and you are watching al jazeera live from doha and also coming up, on the program, food, aid finally arrives for people suffering in syria. oil prices are continuing to fall and crude is now below $31 a barrel, the lowest in more than 12 years. u.s. president barack obama prepares for his last state of the union ad