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time for the sports here's peter thank you very much wednesday malta a major milestone in the history of england's cricket scene they walked out onto the field in birmingham for the one thousand time in the sport's longest format in the start of the first of five test matches strongly heading to lunch at eighty three for one caps and. then put on a hundred runs for the fourth weekend but when they fell in quick succession the english tail quickly collapsed four wickets from above each other in ashwin putting india in control at the close of play. england going to stumps at two hundred

eighty five for nine ashwin finishing with figures or four for sixteen from his twenty five overs the best of england's batsman and said he was run out for eighteen sam curran and james anderson will look to guide england through to at least three hundred on thursday. i suppose from our point of view we've got three hundred of the board and if we can come out and be pretty relentless in the way we go about hitting the areas some point tomorrow. you don't actually know what a good score is so yes on one hand it is a missed opportunity for another home but you don't know what a good scores of us are about it the leap pema chodron covers cricket for u.k. newspaper the independent he says it is unlikely that another side will reach the milestone of a thousand test matches in a harry australia close but even if they play ten tests a year it's going to take them another thirty years to get there in their need another fifty years calculating a journey to get well i really can't see that happening right now apart from england india and australia the game simply isn't commercially viable anywhere it's

what they can do is to ensure that three countries i mentioned does need the park silent so that keep playing a lonesome selves because they have tradition rivalries which mean something to that but in the long run i can't see see india playing new zealand twenty years from now in test cricket in terms of the players' mindset a lot of them will tell you yes that is the most lucrative form of the game not by a long shot if you look at of football the champions league the e.p.l. in the league play the players the most in terms of salaries that's not true test cricket no tell that changes the mindset is going to of fluctuate greatly in the coming years. in the fifty year version of the sport south africa have taken a two no lead in their five match series against sri lanka on wednesday the hosts won the toss and battered but it looked like the decision it backfired in just the second over fast bowling indeedy dismissing who saw mendus of consecutive

deliveries open innovation because one of the stars of the bad to quell a contributing sixty nine before losing his week it to andy. captain angela matthews top scored for the hosts with an unbeaten seventy nine as they posted two hundred forty four for eight in the fifty overs in the cock and put on a ninety one run opening partnership for the south africans in their chase of the target skipper fifty plus seat then falling one short of his half century as the tourists closed in on victory youngster to hit the winning runs for the visitors the four we could win coming with seven overs to spain. arsenal have beaten chelsea on penalties in the latest pre-season warm up game chelsea opened the scoring early through antonio ruediger they had the chance to take a tuna lead bottle bottom auditors penalty kick were saved by the check again as then left it until the ninety third minute to equalise when alexander luck as it attacked him from inside the six yard box to match going to penalties with better

check again making the crucial save this time against reuben loftus cheek the victory is arsenal second successive when they now play a lot c.-o. while chelsea face premier league champs man city in the community shield. manchester united have wrapped up their five game pre-season tour of the us with a win of a real madrid in miami and alexa sanchez had a major role as united beat the european champions to know the chilean forward scoring the opening goal before providing the assist for and. just a marina said he hasn't learned anything from the tour but he was still impressed to see sanchez back to he's best as i was saying we were just trying to survive and to have the best the best possible results but as i was saying to the players some of my play is they will be in an amazing. condition you imagine alexis such as fresh and the way that the man is is running after playing for match four

matches ninety minutes i think he's in a fantastic condition so let's look at it for the positive sides. story incandela i'm delighted with my team we have a marvelous challenge ahead of us which is to recreate the team without christiana we will try to do the best we can in every sense of what we're trying to reinvent pertaining it's a thrilling challenge as a coach and we convince that we have the elements and the tools to be able to do so but there was also a win for tottenham hotspur scoring the only goal of the match against italian side ac milan off the forty seven minutes they begin their premier league campaign on aug eleventh against newcastle. of course before. many younger mr bob and they've behaved very well. off the beach and that is the most important year for barcelona side took on rome in texas

with messi in the line up the spanish champions looked like they missed him as they were come to be beaten for two bosses boss suggested they could follow up a recent signing of malcolm with more new players. but if they had would have swallowed it as the team is always looking for good players i am the trainer we all work on it but we have more people who spend more time looking for good players the team decided that malcolm should join us because we are very happy with him so far we can also see that he has great potential. twenty three time major champion serena williams has suffered the worst loss of her tennis career the american won the first game against great britain concert but that was as good as it would get for the decorated champion williams then losing the next twelve games to bow out in straight sets six one six love in just fifty two minutes consul will now meet severe kynan in the second round of the silicon valley. three time grand slam

champion stand has lost his opening match of the city open in washington american qualifier donald young upsetting the swiss in three sets of rincon has been struggling for form after having two surgeries on his left knee last year. ben will pay is elimination from the tournament was much more dramatic the frenchman had a huge meltdown at the end of these match against marcos baghdatis is likely to be fine for his repeated outbursts that saw him docked a point at the change of ends the world number fifty five didn't attempt to play on a match point and rounded out the six three three six six two loss by smashing a third record and then being booed off the court and that's all the sport for months from now we'll have another update for you again later fifty years ago at the height of the us civil rights movement a leading cartoonist made a small but significant contribution to racial equality charles schulz introduced his first black character franklin in the famous and hugely popular peanuts

newspaper strip modern cartoonist carrie johnson looks back at the legacy of franklin my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonists as a kid and really didn't have a lot of people of color to look up to the characters i'm a caricature illustrators or cartoonist when i see franklin in the newspapers i realize wow that's good to see a person of color of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me. do you think franklin have a franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonist you know maybe i can only say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this. never took the risk to put franklin in his strip who knows would have made that that happen because one thing

about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but he i think a lady wrote him a letter i remember reading about it a few years ago and he said well i don't want to really however he took a chance and it worked ok at. times which frankly wasn't stereotyped you know he had a craze will do what is here but he's pretty straightforward charlie brown and then when the holidays will come around you'll see franklin with the with the but peppermint patty lucy linus and then we're just interacting they want to be mr and most of your but i enjoy that. laura is going to be here in a moment with all the latest. capturing a moment in time snapshots of our lives other stories. providing

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little. while saying on the streets of harare amid claims the zimbabwe election was stolen at least three people have died. and this is al jazeera live from also coming up his past. two years alleged political links the white house imposes sanctions against turkish government officials. for new cases of a polar emerge in the democratic republic of congo just days after an outbreak was declared over. private property owners in nicaragua accuse the government of organizing land invasions to punish and first series. and zimbabwe three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital

harare soldiers have opened fire on opposition supporters protesting over the slow release of election results the past year president has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known reports from her. opposition supporters say they. votes were stolen they are demanding transparency from the electoral commission official results show the readings on it pay particular has won a majority in parliament these people are convinced the results already yeah i got yes right the police moved in to disperse them but when that fails the odds to go to those who try to resist what delta. thanks president innocent and gaga has won the opposition against causing trouble. and its leadership has forthwith to remove its violence supporters from the

streets so peace returns to work and. you know asking them to trick business that is their government is simply reminding them of their duties as the responsible political player was and is citizens the main opposition alliance say the army used unnecessary force three people have been killed. and this or that may be dealt with five a place that crying. out. for give up trying to kill during the war. we have seriously map to wonder what this means are we in war are civilians the enemy of the state. the e.u. election observer mission says presidential election results should be released as soon as possible to avoid more violence but the longer it lasts to count the more. lack of credibility comes up with something real before

therefore it's needed that it must be a trace abilities of the road to the police station level. but opposition supporters say if the candidates now such an isa doesn't when they want to accept it the result center is over they opposition supporters have been trying to gain but the police have been pushing them back so they've been burning tires a poet is they insist that their candidate the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has won this election there they are over there they are refusing to leave in protest. by law presidential results have to be announced by saturday most of our brains are anxious about what could happen if the lisa doesn't accept defeat. zimbabwe's her affairs minister says the government will keep the military deployed following the vice. to. be command of the police. forces.

remain deployed across the country to maintain law and order the government of zimbabwe. places full responsibility. for the. destruction or property. of life on the. turkey has condemned the u.s. decision to impose sanctions on target senior minister says it's the latest effort by the trumpet ministration to get anchored to release an american pastor andrew brunson was detained in two thousand and sixteen accused of helping the group the turkish government says was behind a failed coup attempt. has the latest from washington d.c. . angry words have been exchanged between the u.s. and turkey over possible sanctions no the u.s. has decided to act at the president's direction the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior both of whom played

a leading roles in the arrest and detention of pastor brunson the two ministers targeted a senior figures in the turkish government still a man so i allude is the interior minister abdul hamid gul is the justice minister the u.s. says they are involved in organizations responsible for the continued detention of this month american pastor andrew bronson the taxi he's a spy who was involved in the field twenty sixteen coup in turkey the americans insist he is simply a christian pastor who's been targeted because he met many people from different communities while in the country the u.s. sanctions says that any property or share in property that two men may have in the united states is no blocked and it says that any u.s. citizen business or entity should no longer carry any transactions with the government ministers from talking. president donald trump has tweeted his support for the pastor well vice president my parents has repeatedly called for his release the president. and the turkish government i have

a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. pastor bronson was recently released from prison is here but remains under house arrest. has yet been set for his trial. i'll just you know the way. a former egyptian minister says he's being detained by police in italy and fears he'll be deported to egypt. says on twitter that he's been detained based on the request from egypt in this the minister of parliamentary affairs under former president morsi as government is a no opposition figure has been living in exile in europe since july two thousand and thirteen when the military coup happens here as is planning to impose even higher tariffs on chinese imports are paying the end tape from ten percent to twenty five percent of those levy will cover two hundred billion dollars worth of

goods to have the already been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports president trump accuses china of unfair trade practices and is putting pressure on beijing to reform classical hain has more from washington. this is a sign that the trump administration is getting frustrated because remember this is a president who promised on the campaign trail to his supporters that america was being ripped off that a trade war could be won easily and quickly the right now his core supporters are really hurting from the tariffs the china has put back in place after the u.s. raised tariffs on chinese goods so now he's trying to up the ante he'd already said he was going to put a ten percent tariff on about two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods now they're saying they want that from ten percent to twenty five percent now the part of the reason for this is the president is facing some backlash from his supporters especially farmers there saying that they will give him some time but not indefinitely and he's been forced to say that the u.s. government's going to find twelve billion dollars to try and balance the farmers

and the chinese can wait it out a little bit longer by manipulating their currency so he is under pressure he is trying to put the chinese in a bind to try to get them to sit down and negotiate because he doesn't have all that much time the midterm elections are less than one hundred days away republicans are facing pressure they have already introduced bills that would possibly rein in his power to levy these sorts of tariffs because right now they're being able to say hey look at how great the economy is doing if the economy isn't great on election day they could pay the price that remains of what north korea says more than fifty u.s. soldiers who died during the korean will six decades ago have arrived back on american soil repatriation seventy was held in the u.s. state of hawaii north korean leader kim jong il promised to return the remains during his meeting with president trump in june and identification tag was includes an expert say the identification process could take some time. the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of in the north

eastern city of goma the ministry says there's no evidence linking these cases to the recent outbreak that linked that killed thirty three people that outbreak was officially declared over last week. is dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health he says better education is needed for rural communities to understand how is transmitted what we saw in the last outbreak we hope to see in this outbreak which is a really active response vaccination of contacts and hopefully hopefully shut the outbreak down very quickly unfortunately this outbreak is in an active conflict zone on the border rwanda and uganda which is very different from the location of the last outbreak and that's going to pose a challenge itself in the response so there's no lack of information from a scientific standpoint we know exactly what happens the disease is natural in bats and people get infected directly from bats or from eating infected bushmeat and

then if there is can be a large amount of person to person spread during a funeral or potentially during a how cute or in a health care setting so we know the science of ebola but what's missing is the education of communities to help them understand that sometimes in the midst of all these people who have fever and getting sick and dying there's potentially cases of a bolo that are very contagious and can infect others within the community so that's where the education needs to happen and to make sure that such individuals are quickly moved to health care centers to ensure that there aren't these funerals where you keep touching people and infecting others and within how care settings to ensure there's good infection control practices. opposition leader and former rebel commander has returned to the democratic republic of congo to harrah's welcome after ten years in prison for war crimes than the three back from the netherlands after a successful appeal at the international criminal court in the hague has already

said he wants to run in december's presidential elections catherine sawyer was with the chairing crowds and the capsule can chasa. when john pare bambara march from the airport in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa thousands of his supporters went into a frenzy i know you the. many of them say they never thought they'd be back home any time soon. i have a contingent of police escorted his convoy who was not allowed to make any stops to address the many people who lined the streets to catch a glimpse of him his first order of business was a meeting at his party headquarters he's expected to submit his documents to the electoral commission in the coming days so he can run for the presidency jon hamm back in the window of his party headquarters in waving hundred of supporters here and they have been singing his praises and saying that's really all you want you

can provide a change of the leadership of this country or even bring the opposition together to support one candidate. was arrested in belgium for crimes against humanity a decade ago he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison by the international criminal court in twenty sixteen the judges held him criminally responsible for militias of his former rebel group convicting him of political killing raping and pillaging in the neighboring central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he appealed and in june the conviction was overturned his supporters say the trial was politically instigated. unhappy because bamber has been vindicated by the same cold. convicted him now he's here and we're just glad to see him. we are suffering in this country children are not going to school things are not moving his return gives us hope ember faces some huddles in his bid

for presidency the low ses a candidate has to be in the country. before contesting an election the fact that there has been away for ten years and still has a pending witness tampering case at the international criminal court could heart his chances katz was on al-jazeera kinshasa. so has her own al-jazeera to tell you how the syrian regime's control of a border crossing could change its relations with a neighbor. i'm seeing basra be in the south of tehran where wrongs water crisis is making it more difficult to be pursued. hello and welcome back so looking pretty warm across many parts of north america the flow coming up all the way from the south are also there twenty eight degrees

but still some really heavy rain across parts of the eastern seaboard easterling still down into florida behind that system warm air for dallas texas there temperatures in mid thirty's fine across many parts of canada too with temperatures looking quite good certainly cooler conditions though for seattle in washington state just nineteen degrees slightly high that is in san francisco that eighteen generally losing the showers across the desert southwest still wanted to go popping up again during the course of friday heading down into central america and we've got some heavy showers across southern portions of the isthmus certainly across panama costa rica nicaragua further north make spike really but some heavy showers likely on the pacific coastline of mexico in particular as for the islands weather conditions gerri not looking too bad for much of the time the heavier showers largely confined to more western parts of cuba and maybe towards the bahamas so it should be a nice day in kingston jamaica heavy showers across northern parts of south america indeed showers starting to stand down through parts of peru and into bolivia

further towards assayas quite a conditions here for the moment but heading through friday will find rain developing and extending into parts of paraguay. istanbul is known for its history and food today a new generation is shaking things up for me is my everything five thousand six hundred years it's all different so this is all these called shoes i'm now on top of each of the. we're here to see how the a team culture and who's moved forward. a g. l g seven.

and again you're without zero his reminder of our top stories this hour soldiers and zimbabwe have opened fire on hundreds of opposition demonstrators in the capital harare protesters are angry about alleged vote rigging and the country's election the party of president. has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the results of the presidential vote as. he is condemning a u.s. decision to impose sanctions on two of its senior ministers it's the latest effort by the trumpet ministration to get i'm quick to release an american pastor andrew bronson is accused of helping a group of the turkish government says was behind a failed coup attempt. and democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of a boat in the northeastern city of goma and ministry says there's no evidence linking these cases to a recent outbreak that killed thirty three people. eighteen presidential candidates

in mali have denounced irregularities in sunday's vote a demanding an investigation into what they call violations by the government that favor current president abraham cater. has more from the capital bamako. days before the official results are out the opposition cry foul eighteen of the twenty three presidential candidates for run against president abraham buck akita say his supporters have manipulated the media misused state funds bought votes and allowed widespread violence and deceptions in polling stations. we have noticed live in multiple anomalies including abusive utilization of state means by the president massive appropriation of what accounts for the wrong people corruption and pledges of votes stopping ballot boxes attribution of fake results certain candidates and absence of water guards and numerous polling stations. the

candidates jointly read the declaration rejecting sunday's voting or polling stations where deceptions or irregularities took place. we demand that result from every polling station be published separately that the constitutional court disprove the grid accusations leveled against it that illegal investigation be launched and we will not accept results from any polling stations where boarding been take place properly. the announcement came as reports of alleged leaked results give president a big win in the first round but governments see the reports are baseless and retreat but only the high electoral commission has the authority to announce the results showed your friday public opinion in mali is extremely polarized at the moment peter supporters see him as the man from mali and say he's managed to sign a peace agreement with northern rebels and to create a level of stability during his five year term. but his opponents describe his

leadership as disastrous and blame him for the increase in armed attacks in the north and ethnic infighting in the center of the country and now they accuse him of rigging sunday's vote in his favor opposition leader so my list again to increasing support before during the campaign or pinion polls showed him leading close behind president peter eighteen presidential candidates means the opposition is united more than ever before still not clear if that will lead to civil disobedience and public rallies such as those that forced the president. to cancel a referendum on constitutional changes last year. and dizzy. three russian journalists who were killed in the central african republic were investigating a private russian security force major organization that hired the journalists as they were filming a documentary on the wacken a group that's a private security company with mostly russian employees who are involved in conflict zones around the globe the russian military has been providing weapons and

training to say our forces syrian government forces have regained control of all the land along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights isolate fighters gave up their last pocket of territory in the area after a six week military campaign going to russian media pro rani and forces withdrew to eighty five kilometers from israeli held territory israel had asked for moscow's support to help keep back. troops as the syrian government continues to reclaim territory the road to the border crossing with jordan is ready for use and damascus is looking at prospects of reopening it to make the closure of the nasib crossing in two thousand and eleven has weighed on the economy of syria and neighboring states then i heard a report from. jordan wanted exports to flow through what was once a lucrative trade route the syrian government's recaptures than a sea crossing from the opposition in early july was welcomed by officials here

damascus says the road is now ready for use and is waiting for jordan to officially request the resumption of commercial activity it may be using this as leverage to define a new relationship. a syrian regime they have their own political agenda they will make demands and impose conditions on jordan the opening of the border won't happen right away from my experience with the regime jordan for something in return that could be an official recognition of syrian president bashar assad's legitimacy officially jordan was one of the few arab states that didn't cut diplomatic relations with damascus and kept the channel for military cooperation and intelligence sharing open but ties were affected in the early days of the conflict jordan's king abdullah called on assad to step down that approach later changed with the priority being the protection of national security interests it has been a difficult balancing act for jordan it likes to describe its policy toward the

syrian crisis as it called for a political solution and it didn't call for regime change as a condition to end the crisis the kingdom to a certain extent followed an independent course from its allies who were supporting the opposition despite its cautious approach jordan along with the u.s. and saudi arabia did back the opposition in southern syria but when damascus was close to victory.