this is al jazeera you welcome to the news hour. coming in the next 60 minutes u security in turkey after the government blames i.s.i.l. of an attack. russian court convicts a ukrainian pilot i have the sport, including. >> if i was a lady player i

would go down every night on my knees and thank god that there was a fedder and an nadal was born. >> reporter: he apologizes over racist remarks north korea has launched five projectiles into the sea of japan. the launch comes amidst among the rising nuclear tension. crossing to adrian brown who is in beijing. talk us through the launch of these and what the aim behind it is. >> reporter: >> reporter: ordinarily, north korea doing what it has done wouldn't cause too much excitement, but we have to see it in the context of what was in the past few weeks.

it fired five missiles into the seas off its eastern coast. the south korea military says they're not sure about that. we're calling them projectiles or possibly military shells of some sort. just a few days of course on friday, north korea fired two ballistic missiles in the same area. a few days before that, the north korean leader said that his military was preparing for multiple ballistic missile launches and a nuclear war head test. so that's why there is this added anxiety on the korean peninsula today. is what happened on friday or monday a prelude to the big thing. this is what is keeping heads of states in seoul, washington and here in beijing. a short time ago the foreign ministry here gave one of its regular daily news conference.

a minister called for calm and restraint and urged north korea not to violate united nations sanctions, violate the sanctions that had been imposed on it. these appeals to north korea really continue to fall on deaf ears. i think china's strategy at the moment, remember china is about the only friend north korea has, is for this issue simply to go away, but that simply is showing no signs of happening. the onus is on china. when those sanctions were passed a few weeks ago, they were forced to - they had to decide how it was going to implement those sanctions because in the port of dandong, where a lot of the exports that go to north korea pass through, it's very time consuming and very expensive to inspect every container, every shipment that

is headed for north korea. china ask not rigorously enforcing-- is not rig orrously enforcing that with humanitarian, because that's not there, but it will support its nuclear or missile program. china has been reluctant on the idea of sanctions. it doesn't believe that in the long run they achieve a great deal. it still believes that negotiations is the way forward, but that tactic hasn't worked in the past thank you for that a football match between turkey's biggest teams has been postponed because of turkey's concerns. it had been scheduled for sun evening. it was called off because of intelligence about a posh threat. on saturday a suicide bomber blew himself up in a popular

district killing four other people. going over to our correspondent live for us in istanbul. talk us through this security threat that ask out there and also the arrests. >> reporter: yes. the government officials decided to call off the derby after the conclusions with the two clubs. initially the two clubs decided to go with the match without any fans. however, some of the fans or a large number of fans were still gathering outside the stadium in public areas so, therefore, they decided to call it off because the security threat was to big for that. why the authorities are worried is because there are three i.s.i.l. suspects at large. according to the state news agency saying they had

instructions to carry out huge attacks to drag the attention of the media and to create some sort a short security. the security officials are really searching for those three men who are suspected for links with i.s.i.l. of course, the pressure on them must be pretty intense because the government say that turkey is safe but the frequency of these attacks are causing many people to question that. >> reporter: absolutely. you can imagine what kind of a nightmare now the security authorities are facing right now. they need to first catch those three and try to bring some sort of trust into the security services after the suicide attack on saturday. remember there was another scare a few days ago that there is actually six members of the

p.k.k. that the kurdistan workers party and other affiliated groups and the intelligence then suggested that those six were trying to disrupt the rule of the kurdish new year celebration. you can imagine what kind of a security nightmare the government is facing and also we need to remember that turkey has been racked by violence since july last year. every single month there has been an attack. in march we had two attacks thank you for that. kurdish new year is being over shadowed in turkey's south-east region because of heightened security. more from lawrence lee. how many people have turned out compared to the festivities.

>> reporter: in previous years when the ceasefire was on, this entire area was full of hundreds of thousands of people. my best guess is that there are something like 20,000 there at the moment. so very small compared to previous years. the reason i think why this many people have turned out because they have been reassured by the enormous turkish police and military presence here. they have a cordon a good half a kilometer here and they're being searched. many said they didn't want to come because they thought that i.s.i.l. might attack this event and the turkish military presence has reassured them this will be difficult. this fight between the turks, armed kurds and i.s.i.l. is leading to exactly the same source of fears among kurds as turks around the country. >> reporter: it is the first

kurdish new year since the collapse of the ceasefire. every single person is checked on entry to the districts for explosive belts. up and down the main commercial street every alley is blocked by armed police. the turkish police followed us while we filmed and checked every shot. no faces, nothing to jeopardize their control. there is no trace left of the p.k.k. flags that used to fly here. the military operation has been going on for nearly four months. the decision by the p.k.k. to fight turkey here left kurdish civilians with desperate choices. >> translation: i have never seen anything like it. i left home in these clothes and i have worn them for four months. i live with my friends. i won't come back here. >> translation: i never left here. it was difficult.

it was very difficult. i have my family with me. six children. we have been waiting for it to end. we had some food and water and we managed to survive. >> reporter: before the ceasefire ended, the city had been getting back on its feet with the help of state money. now the regional government is having to pay to put families up in hotels. fighting in these narrow streets cause huge collateral damage >> reporter: the military won't let us go down any of the side streets because they're still looking for explosive devices, but the statistics from here speak for themselves. according to the turkish authorities, more than 300 p.k.k. fighters killed and 4600 families displaced from their homes in an operation just like happened here is happening in another suburb. kurdish men watch the soldiers in their armored vehicles from outside.

there is a mood of fear and loathing. for all the sense of oppression, many say they wished the p.k.k. had never picked its fight in such built-up areas. >> translation: the illegal and legal groups started the fighting. even if there were two neighborhoods supporting the p.k.k. they damaged the whole city. they used to burn villages in the 1990s. now they're burning the whole city. many say they will not attend the new year's festivities because they think it is too volatile. there is little for turkey's kurds to celebrate this new year a russian court has found a ukrainian pilot of complicitity to murder two journalists. she was accused of directing

fire. she says she was captured by rebel fighters and should have been treated as a prison of war. our correspondent is in moscow. what was the response to her being found guilty? >> reporter: we still have to know if she will be handed down the sentence, 23 years. that could compaore out tomorrow. what we know from the judge is she has been charged because she was found guilty of killing, of being part of the murder, as he put it, of these two journalists and the judge said that she was motivated by hatred, not only towards the pro-russian separatist in the region, but also towards russian-speaking people in general. she was also accused of sneaking across the border in russia illegally as a refugee. what happens next is something we have to wait and see. simply because she is on top of

the prisoner swap list of the government in ukraine, and in exchange sympathy could be exchanged against two russian intelligence officers who are detained. that is something that will happen after all this ended. she said she will not appeal whatever the ruling is. so now she is guilty, she will not appeal that, but her lawyer says she expects her to be handed over to ukraine very soon i should imagine that many people in ukraine and russia, including the politicians, have been watching this very closely. >> reporter: yes. absolutely. this is a case that really has galvanized people here in russia and in ukraine, and, indeed, the international community. for some reasons she has become the symbol of everything that went wrong between these two countries. russia said that, as i said

earlier, many people here believe that she was very ail an. she has been portrayed like that in the media. many people say that she was part of those - the new generation in ukraine who ask at odds with anyone who speaks the russian language. in ukraine it is considered-- she is considered the hero. the international community stepped in. the e.u. had called for her unconditional release saying that her detention was actually in breach of the agreement that called for all prisoner of war to be released. president obama also trade to weigh in. he actually had as early as last week a call with president putin in which her case was mentioned. president putin said i cannot interfere with the judicial process. we have to wait to see what happens in court, what the sentence is, and then we will see what happens next. as i said what happens next is that she returns to ukraine in exchange for these two russian

intelligence officers thank you for that. plenty more ahead on the news hour. greece wants more time before it starts returning refugees to turk. hundreds of people coming despite a deal. obama held an historic opportunity as crowds were in the street to welcome him. the west indies make it two from two at the world twenty20. jo will have the details russia wants to hold an urgent with the u.s. it comes as indirect talks resume between s between syria and the opposition. what do you know about this? >> reporter: it's puzzling, i

thi think, diplomats and officials here. the cessation has been in place for more than three weeks. what they have here in gen ooech ais a-- geneva is a coordination center where there are russian military officials, also u.s. military officials and members of the u.n. u.n. officials including some military officers who are working here with the united natio nations. they're supposed to look at all the violations and get a clear pattern of where there have been violations of the cessation. everyone is saying that there have been violations, but there has still been a significant drop in the level of violence and an 80 to 90% drop before it came into place three weeks ago. the russians seem to have a dispute with the u.s. over taking action against those that are violating the cessation, but i have to tell you, most diplomats are telling me that

most of the violations have been done by the government side. i think it is likely that russia is putting pressure on the u.s. ahead of an important meeting to take place later this week between john kerry and lavrov. i think they want something from secretary kerry. i can't tell what that something is. i think they're trying to get a concession from the u.s. side. i think also after that russian military pull out that they announced and certainly started in syria, maybe this is a signal to the bashar al-assad regime, we're not abandoning you all together thank you. hundreds of refugees continue to arrive in greece despite a deal between the e.u. and turkey to stop them. rubber boats crammed with people arrived on the greek island of lesbos just hours after the deal was meant to come into effect. greece is struggling to

implement the agreement because of legal problems with the asylum registration process. our correspondent has more. >> reporter: the e.u. turkey deal has come into force. the difficulty now is to implement it. greece needs help. the european urine has promised assistance. they plan to send hundreds of police officers, migration officials, lawyers, judges, to set up a fast-track process to look into the claims for asylum because at the end of the day the new arrivals, those who arrive after the deadline, the deal comes into force, they will have a chance to apply for asylum. it will be likely that they l be returned back to turkey. they have to put this process into place, greek authorities p have started to make new room for these rivals to separate them from the refugees and migrants who have been here for weeks and month. they're being sent to amainland greece and the refugee camps

here in lesbos are going to be become detention centers. this hasn't discouraged people from making the dangerous journey across the sea. approximately 800 new rivals since the deal came into force-- arrivals. they have not given an official number, but clearly people are not deterred. they feel that their request for asylum will be granted. greece is struggling. it already hosts more than 48,000 refugees and migrants who are trapped. borders have been closed, so the crisis is far from overment. the challenge will be in implementing it especially inches international human rights groups have raised concerns about its legality and international groups are also saying that 85% of the people who do reach greece who are trying to headache their way to europe really have valid asylum cases steve pearce is a professor of european law and human rights

laws. what do you make of these delays and the deal as far as the rights of these refugees are concerned? >> the delays were inevitable because the way the deal works everyone, as your correspondent was saying, is meant to have the right to apply for asylum and have their claim considered individually, and the greek government doesn't have the bodies in place to manage the application process or probably to give food and housing to everyone who will have to be staying around while their applications are considered, even if that is only for a week or so do you think this could work in a good way? >> i think there's a profound legal problem with it because the - first of all you have to consider each claim individually, but what you consider during that process can is whether or not turkey is a

safe country. the factors to consider there are first and foremost has turkey fully applied the u.n./refugee convention. it hasn't. it only applies it to europeans and others. you have to show it isn't causing a risk to the individual migrants and refugees and there has been documented evidence of attacks on some people, and turkey isn't sending people on back to unsafe countries and there are allegations that that sometimes happens too clearly those issues night to be resolved before turkey gets rewarded. >> i think the idea is that turkey will get rewarded, if you want to call it that, of visa free travel in june. by then it should be obvious whether the deal is working or not. i think it is always planned that nobody would be sent back to tur kae key

do you think this might frighten those escaping the war to find more dangerous routes into europe? >> i think there is already evidence of that happening. apparently there are more people crossing from libya across the central mediterranean to italy which was the preferred raut before people switched to-- route before people switch to greece thank you for that. obama an historic visit to the island of cuba in 88 years. this was captured in a single image on the streets.

air force 1 coming into land watched by cubans driving blue sedans. a report from havana with this single step, u.s. president obama is hoping to change the course of history. the first sitting american president in 88 years to set foot on cuban soil >> i'm glad you had a chance to bring your families here because i always like taking pictures with kids. that's the future that we hope for. young american children, young cuban children, by the time they're adults, our hope is that they think it's natural that a u.s. president should be in cuba, they think it's natural that the two people's are working together. >> reporter: that wasn't the case here for more than five decades his predecessors hoped to topple the government with

strangulation, even assassination attempts. the president hoping engagement might work better so he has made it possibly for americans to do what he and his family did, become tourists. he has changed the rules so that american businesses can work here. flights, communications equipment. he can't do that without commerce. his secretary tells that won't happen unless cuba takes big steps first. >> first of all, if you come here you can't just hire who you want. you have to go through state-run hiring organizations, a dual currency which is a challenge, there is a 10% charge if you want to use dollars. >> reporter: despite the focus of the international media, the cuban police arrested the ladies in white after their weekly protest just hours before the president arrived. >> translation: this sknt the moment for the u.s. government to come to cuba. cuba hasn't changed. nothing has changed about human rights. >> reporter: the president is under pressure back home to show

that he is going to pressure the government over its human rights record. during his visit he will meet with dissidents and speak with cuban people. he is walking a fine line because he needs the government to speed up reforms. he needs momentum because if not the next president can pull the plug. >> reporter: that's something that the cuban people seems aware of >> nobody knows what will happen, but we think cuba and u.s., you know, will be open. >> reporter: the president is hoping this visit will help ensure that eventually for these children seeing a u.s. present will be an event but not a moment like this when the history will remember as you can see it was raining there. a rather different situation from the weather in washington dc. >> reporter: yes. exactly from where he took off. it's all part of the big system. the strae streak of crowd going

across cuba is obvious here. that has been giving rain on and off. this wrapped around and is off the east coast. it gave you these pictures. this was new york, times square, but it was snowing on the first day of spring. a completely contrasting picture. the wind is still northerly in this part. the sun is out now, nothing like as cold. i think it is 8 degrees in new york and washington is very similar. that story actually continues in much the same vein. the sun is out. actually, maybe the most interesting weather in the next 24 to 36 hours is on the pacific coast. let's close in on that. you know this has been el nino year. that has peaked and it is now dropping back, but it really did promise some good rain, if you were lucky, snow, for at least california if you were suffering a drought.

there's more rain and more snow, but it's north of san francisco and it disappears. that has been the problem. there has not been much in the central or southern part of california. it has all been in the north and that story continues still to come the international court turns its attention to sexual violence as a weapon of war. waiting his verdict, congolese waiting his verdict. twitter has 10 years of tweets. we have action from the season opener coming up opener coming up

a russian court has found a ukrainian violent-- pilot of conspiring for murder russia wants to hold an urnlt meeting with the u.s. on how to control the ceasefire in syria. it comes as indirect talks resume in geneva between the syrian government and the opposition on how to end the

five-year conflict returning to our top story. going to bj kim who is a professor at hancock university. what do you make of north korea's action at the moment? what is it trying to do? >> it's just tries to raise the stake in terms of like any possible talks that is being proposed by the west, western side of the world community, and also china of course. everyone wants to talk with the north korea. at this point from north korean perspective it makes sense to be tough, to look tough and kind of making a statement that if you want to have this as an option, it is not to be an option to be discussed here. whatever they have in their mind, this is what they're doing and this is the behaviour that

we've being seeing to for the past several decades we see it over and over again and nothing is working. including sanctions. what does it say about china, north korea's only friend, china's leverage there? >> china's leverage, there is how much discussion about how much leverage it has. north korea doing this kind of stuff, they'reing trying to show to the world that china doesn't have as much leverage over them and they are independent and they are on their own. this has been what north korea has been trying to do. in the end, in and of itself reject the notion of china having influence of north korea. north korea will do this kind of outrageous things but behind the scenes china could have its own leverage, if there is any. so it's just this is north korea's gesture and statement to the world quite a statement to its own

people because i imagine that the only people suffering are the north koreans themselves. >> absolutely. right. we have to keep in mind united states and south korea are currently having joint exercises at this point. this is the nation security wise from north korean's perspective, this is a touch time. so in order to give the domestic population the idea that the north korea is acting tough and be strong against this "external threats", you know, this is a necessary political message do you think the u.s. and south korea are being unnecessarily provocative by having these exercises? >> i don't think so. i disagree with that idea. north korea is developing the nuclear weapons and doing all they can. this is the least i can do, at least the u.s. and south korea

can do. they have to show what will be coming in their way to take serious military actions against this side. they have to keep what will becoming in their mind in their way in their minds through this exercise. this is absolutely necessary action to be taken by south korea and the u.s. thank you for talking to us. at least 36 iraqi security soldiers have been killed in separate suicide attacks by i.s.i.l. fighters. 25 other soldiers were killed north-east of ramadi. the simultaneous attacks targeted positions manned by security forces. marines are to be joined troops. it's not sure how many, but there are currently around 3600 military personnel in iraq.

more from our correspondent. >> reporter: the 26th marine expeditionary unit is a combination ground-air combat unit that will be supporting operations in iraq in the international coalition's fight against i.s.i.l. we're told by pentagon officials that this unit is the same unit that suffered losses on friday when i.s.i.l. forces probed rockets into the base killing one marine and injuring others. a deployment was planned but pushed up in response to that attack and we're told that this is a group that will continue to provide security for officials at this space. officials are supporting iraqis in the ground offences in the fight against i.s.i.l. and providing advisory and support roles. of course, the u.s. also taking part in an air campaign against i.s.i.l. again, this is partly, it seems,

in reaction to the attack that happened on friday mentally-ill patients in indonesia are being abused in institutions that are to provide help for them. there are around 400,000 indonesians suffering from severe mental illness. some are being chained and kept in dirty sheds. >> reporter: for five months now this man has been locked up in a cage where he lives in his own ex-tremendous meant. his family is sometimes too afraid to feed him. after he murdered his mother and mu lated her body he was taken to a mental hospital. four months later he came back. >> translation: they said he was cured, but after three months he became aggressive again. he injured the head of the village with a machete. i'm worried if we let him out again. >> reporter: human rights watch has found that 57,000 mentally

ill patients in indonesia have been chained or confined. families often see no other solution due to a lack of knowledge or money to seek medical care >> because of a lack of understanding of what mental illnesses are, they think they are cursed or possessed by an evil spirit. they have no other way but to lock them up >> reporter: the report also found those living in institutions. in this private institution, one psychologist visits once a week to treat 350 patients. the only medication necessity receive is herbal. despite the plan on shackling, people are still being chained. >> translation: we know indonesia has banned shackling, but we use it only temporarily and so that the patients did still move. it's p only for two to two to

three days if they're getting emotional. we don't have space to put them somewhere safe. >> reporter: the government said since 2010, 8600 patients have been freed from their chains. community workers step in and persuade people to have them treated. this is one example. he was forced to live inside a hen house. >> translation: when i was locked up in the sthed, it was very dark. it was a bad smell and at night i could see animals coming. i was very scared >> reporter: human rights watch is urging the government to empower groups so more patients can be freed and taken care of >> reporter: it struggles with a shortage of psychiatrists and only 800 for a population of 250 million. why the government is urged to tackle this, many say mental health has to be a priority. they're calling for a nationwide

campaign to teach indonesians about in issue >> translation: we don't want shackling, but we're looking to find a way to deal with mentally ill patients who are living too far from treatment clinics. we need to educate communities to take care of them in a more human way. >> reporter: while this man is yet to receive medical care. the recovery of this man has taught his community that mentally ill patients need care, not cages indonesia's government is demanding answers from chinese diplomats over a vessel it says was fishing illegally in waters in the contested south china sea. it intercepted the boat within the economic zone on saturday. jakar tashgs says coast guards chased away the patrol ships when it tried to detain it. beijing says the fishermen were not engaged in any illegal

activity. myanmar's first president has addressed parliament for the first time. he outlined his proposal for the new government. he is a close ally of aung san suu kyi, the n.l.d. party that swept to victory in elections last year. a verdict is due in a landmark war crimes trial against a former politician in conga. it focused on frap as a weapon of war. me denies he ordered attacks on thousands of civil yarns-- civilians in car. >> reporter: some of the victims' are too distressing to report. for five years this man has been on trial at the haigue. the court set up for the world's worst crime. the former rebel leader turned politician is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity with rape as the main

weapon. prosecutors say he sent his personal militia across the border to the car in 2002. he was allegedly helping the government there to crush a rebellion. his fighters took over areas where the rebels were and in small groups moved house to house rape possessing, pillaging and killing. five years later he was living in portugal. al jazeera asked him for a response to the allegations? >> i am not, of course, involved in any of these things. >> reporter: he since argued that he wasn't in control of what his fighters did on foreign soil. at home in a democratic republic of congo, he has supporters and even ran for office as vice president. there are many people who want to see him jailed. while in car, men from miss liberation movement attack episode villagers for months. one victim was an eight year old

girl, gang raped in front of her mother. the wounds inflicted on their victims will take generations to heal the ruling issing party candidate in zanzibar has been declared the winner. he has p governed for five years. people voted on sunday in a controversial rerun of october's presidential poll. the opposition declared victim after last year-- victory after last year's poll. 10 years ago a software developer in the u.s. sent a message that changed the way people communicated. it was the first tweet. since then social media platform twitter has had its ups and downs. >> reporter: it may not be a force the nature, but over the last 10 years the twitter bird has become a force online.

320 million people use twilter every month, pushing out 6,000 tweets every second. that's about 500 million tweets every day. these figures appear to have stalled. twitter's share price hit 69 after it went public. now it's sitting at around $17. twitter is believed to be struggling to attract new users as facebook and google become increasingly dominant. it was heralded as a new and revolutionary way to communicate. during the arab spring five years ago it was widely use to help protesters organise, but since then it has been used to launch often vicious personal attacks. >> it has become a space where people also experience really, really challenging personal invasion of what is for many a work space by people who have particular one-sided interests

>> use block. >> reporter: it was criticized for responding too slowly to the harassment. it has set up a reporting system, but for some the public platform is too risky. >> we have heard the stories where people have been burned by tweets that were misconstrued or tweets that they said in the spur of the moment. i think giving them more control for individual tweets might get people back to the platform. >> reporter: twitter has struggled to earn the money google and facebook are making online. in 10 years it has lost two billion dollars prompting increasing moves to sell advertising on the platform >> they're profiling you and monetising that information, monetising you. that's a very lucrative business. the commercialisation, of course, is against the interests of the people that use the platform who want a quick means of communicating.

>> reporter: twitter has been making changes. including last year's launch of its video streaming site. users may be taking important care about how and what they tweet, but for many it's an appeal that has remained as it has always been. to communicate in real time with an unprecedented number of people more on in. we talk to an award winning egyptian blogger. good to have you with us. how do you mark the importance of twitter from an egyptian perspective. [technical difficulties] we're going to have to leave it there because as you could tell, the sound quality wasn't good. sorry about that. still to come in sport. serena williams emotions boil

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u.s. vice president has told israel lobby group there is no will for a move towards peace. >> reporter: israeli and their neighbors share an overwhelming concern about the threat that radicalization poses to their own security. the arab nations have begun to finally figure out that i.s.i.s.

sees a caliphate not in israel, but in arab lands. that i.s.i.s. is a direct existential threat to their existence the focus remains on working on protecting israel from the perceive threat from iran >> reporter: this year a record 18,000 people have made the pill brimmage to washington-- pilgrimage. it is to secure relations with israel. it means lobbying effectively for more military to aid israel. fighting to prevent some advanced arm sales to arab governments like this radar plane to saudi arabia which ask opposed. the perceive arab threat has been outdated by the greater men

answer israel sees in iran. >> the enemy of my enemy is my friend. there are in the past it has said weapons to these countries. they do not have a common interest >> reporter: last year it was a lobby in congress to reject the deal that frozen iran's nuclear program. that campaign failed. it undermined aipac's policy against taking sides between democrats and republicans in the u.s. political arena. still the group promises to keep up the pressure on iran. these delegates heard one opponent of the deal warned that remaining sanctions are losing their power to kerb iran's regional ambitions >> today even when things are prohibited, people will have the sanctions. >> it is very important from where we substantive in this conference to really get the right answers and how afraid we

really should be and how deep the problem is. >> reporter: most americans agree with two in every three opposed to the nuclear deal. according to a recent poll >> it may not reflect the full range of opinion among the american jews who constitute 3% of the population, but measure of their influence, candidates will be here to court their votes to sport now. >> reporter: thank you very much. one of the biggest tennis tournaments have been embroid in an argument over sexism. as soon as nok won the titles, attention was diverted. >> reporter: one of the richest joint events in professional tennis. the price money is the same.

a rare example of pay parity in support. the man in charge has caused kon trovp see about the comments he made >> in my next life i want to be someone in the wta because they ride on the coat-tails of the men. they don't make any decision and they're lucky. they're very, very lucky. if i was a lady player i would go down every night on my knees and thank twoed for the federer and nadal were born. >> reporter: he apologised for his comments say they were in poor taste the they issued a statement calling them disappointing and alarming. novak djokovic also denounced his words and he said: >> reporter: the argument over equal pay in tennis and in other

professional sports isn't new. some say women tennis pairs should be pay less because they play fewer games. in the grand slams it is the best of three sets and for men it's the best of five. some women's games can last just as long and attract even more viewers. serena williams says matches sell out before the men's >> i'm totally surprised especially when we have done well and last year the final's fin final-- female final sold out before the men's final. >> reporter: tennis is one of the few sports where the major tournaments offer equal prize money for men and women. even then the salary for maems out strip the female counterpart.

>> reporter: before wading into the argument, novak djokovic did receive an unprecedented fifth men's title. it took him one four and 17 minutes to dispose of his opponent in straight sixth national deafness sector summit two six one. it is his 27th master's crown for the world no.1. the women's final was equally one-sid one-sided. serena williams was beaten and broke two racquets. she went on to win six four six four in her first victory over serena williams since 2013. man cher terror united has given a big boost again man city. march can you say rushford was

the only goal scorer. he was the youngest ever scorer in the fixture. they were fourth with the united sixth. they're one point off a champion's league place. >> i'm very happy because otherwise we have to whether a won or dra, four points. then it should be very difficult. now it is in our own hands, i think. we have to win our games. we have more home matches than away matches. we don't lose so much . >> reporter: newcastle has had a draw. south hamp kon came back from two nil down to beat liverpool. leicester had a three million win at home.

>> they got that they have much of the city. we need to produce and it is good that they have a good time. we need to try to fight and believe. we need to believe. this is the most important thing. you have to be ready for the next game and try to play it up. >> reporter: australia take on bangladesh in a crucial world t 20 match. they lost their opening counter. they need to win to progress further. west indecency-- west indies booet sri lanka. they were off to a supplying start. there was an 84 not out. helping the side to a seven wicket victory. they didn't need chris gale who scored an unbeaten century in

the last match >> i think we know what we can capable of. we know the strength of our team. we always back ourselves to win the world cup. it is good to see that we have two wins under our belt. we take it from there into the final finals. >> we just lost only one game and we have two more games to go. if we win those two, we will city be in the semifinals. so we're just looking to win those two games. not looking too far ahead. i think it is just that we are doing mistakes here and there which have cost us the whole outcome of the game. >> reporter: lorenzo has won the first round the moto gp. he had been competing for the

lead when he crashed out. he was was unhert. he went on to win the raise. jason day has won the arnold palmer invitational in orlando. he was two under par in the final round. it was enough to beat kevin chapplell by one shot. he will replace rory macelroy as number 23. >> it is great to finally get this win. i've been talking about it for since the start of the year. everyone is asking what is going to, why aren't you playing that great. i said it's a process, i just want to kind of stick to what i've been working on and be patient with myself and the process finally paid off this week. >> reporter: u.s. h have closed

the world championships. they smashed the old mark of 19 finishing the competition with 23, including 19 gold. u.s. a picked up four on the final night, including wins in both the four by 400 metre relay. ethiopia arrived at this competition under a doping cloud. they were identified by the ioof. they dominated the event on sunday. that is all the sport for now. more later thanks for that. that's all from me and the rest of the team. i will see you in the next couple of minutes with the next

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