the beach is quite empty especially for this period of summer holidays and brazil. the focus now is back behind these walls but few expect to stay there for long that their al-jazeera for to listen. tens of thousands of people have marched through argentina's capital one of the aires and the first of several planned protests against the president's authority program. has reduced subsidies for utilities and other services to bring the government's huge debts on the control electricity and gas rates soaring mark which has been forced to slash the deficit as part of a deal with the international monetary fund. well getting around baghdad is a bit easier for everyone these days the heavily fortified green zone has been a symbol of insecurity thing is but now security forces are facts of the declaring the iraqi capital safe and have removed checkpoints and the bar is among com reports. they call it the transition from green to blue where green army

soldiers give up control to the blue berets of the iraqi police force traffic can now easily pass through baghdad's international zone also known as the green zone without checks and special passes a situation unthinkable just a year ago. under the orders a prime minister i'd love to lead the officials across major cities in iraq and remove checkpoints and concrete barriers designed to protect against suicide in tall bombs the prime minister even took a very public walk around baghdad on monday and transitioning from green to blue for iraq something inevitable this came after the end of the military operations against isola cross iraq there's a per tile ground for the iraqi police to handle security and leave other military forms outside the main cities the european union advisory mission to iraq is pushing into that direction in collaboration with the police force for several reasons on top of them getting rid from eisel threat in the green zone is home to

iraqi political establishment and foreign embassies according to the american media the u.s. has its concerns over the green zone opening up its embassy in iraq is the largest of its diplomatic missions in the world the european union advisory mission to iraq is helping iraqi police deal with security but insists it's the iraqis who are leading the charge the mission is important because at the moment we are in the phase where in iraq after winning the war against theirs the security forces police is in a transition phase from paramilitary. forces to a superior. local police force the people in the city it's been i think to drive around the green zone an area denied to them for the last fifteen years. when i first crossed the bridge leading to the green zone i was in tears for fifteen years we rockies were deprived from these roads we are so happy that. the green zone is

open now for the public families and employees can drive through now usually before the city of mint down are the days of roads being shut down with concrete walls traffic jams this is a relief for iraqi people in the end. keeping baghdad safe requires a large and coordinated operation which begins at four am with iraqi police forces finding out across the city. and it's not just the green zone all over the city streets. as you can see the removal of these concrete barriers is quite a major operation but it is a crucial one not only does it ease congestion on the roads of baghdad but it gives people a sense but things all sides in the city on these things are being repeated across iraq al jazeera. stranglehold on the world.

as for now on his left thank you laura tennis former world number one andy murray says the australian open could be his last professional tournaments the three time grand slam champion was emotional at his news conference in melbourne where he announced his retirement joined the gusher of scott report. from the moment andy murray walked in to face the price in melbourne his distress was clear his spirit broken because of his injured hip which hasn't healed well and fed up of the severe

pain he just can't take it anymore murray admitted next week's australian open could be his last professional tournament you can't keep doing this and. i needed to have like an end point. because. i was sort of just just playing with no idea where this or that the pain was going to penn was going to start. and i felt like making that decision you know it sets might seem like i think i can tend to get through this and so i will and so wimbledon that is where i would like. that that's where i would like to start stop playing. but i'm also not certain i'm able to do that.

the former world number one had surgery on his right hip a year ago but only managed to play in six tournament last season he's a shadow of the player who won two wimbledon titles the u.s. open and a lympics singles gold in rio just three years ago fellow professionals have sympathy for him if he is unable to retire on his own terms and is force retired i think that's and that's something that no athlete wants to wants to be put through so i think everyone has a lot of compassion lot of yeah a lot of a lot of sadness for the thirty one year old scott is considering more surgery which he says might trade him for the pain the reason for having an operation like that is not to return to professional sport. you know just for for quality of life while his painful hip might get better the mental scars will

take longer to heal joining us rasika al-jazeera las vegas police have asked to tell you know forty's for a d.n.a. sample from portuguese football star chris rinaldo the thirty three year old denies assaulting katherine majorca at a las vegas hotel in two thousand and nine when all those lawyer says the d.n.a. the d.n.a. request is standard the footballer currently plays for you ventus in italy. jordan are the first team to qualify for the knockout stages at football's asian cup in the united arab emirates after defending defeating australia in the first match they came back to win over syria to nil to guarantee a place in the last sixteen. put them ahead and they doubled the advantage before half time with a powerful header from topic. the tournament hosts have stormed to the top of their group with a win over india on mubarak slotted home for the united arab emirates in the forty

first minute india were unlucky not to equalise ten minutes after halftime when i moved on to sing hit the crossbar was a tight can contest right up until two minutes from the end when ali who sealed victory for the u.a.e. with his forty seventh goal in seventy five internationals. and thailand were thumped four one by india in their first match they responded by sacking their head coach and have now reignited their hopes of making the last sixteen by beating behind him there was only one goal in the game. it's crunch time for defending champions austria australia as they take on palestine they lost their first match to jordan and another defeat could prove disastrous in group c. philippines take on china while south korea play kurdistan dope investigators have finally been allowed into a moscow laboratory to collect evidence that could expose numerous russian athletes as drug cheats it's a third time officials from the world anti-doping agency have been in russia's

capital on the first two visits they failed to gain access to the lab russia could still be punished for missing its original deadline of december thirty first to hand over the information. now to a special congregation of athletes hoping to make their mark on the world stage from the vatican the holy city launched an athletics team after previously competing under the italian flag they're not yet recognized by the international athletics federation among the first members of the team though are priests nuns pharmacists and the sixty two year old library you professor. we do in fact. i believe that sports among nuns is more common than we might think especially among new generations it's also a factor of balance when i started running it was a chance to find peace to find balance to find a space a freedom of silence and of being just alone with myself. qatar's to time dakar rally champion maintains his place at the top of the overall standings at this year's race after

a solid stage four performance took the overall lead after the previous stage in the peruvian desert and by winning thursday's four stage strengthen his place at the top of the standings and leave another former dakar champion france's stefan heather hansen who also happened to finish second in the sea which. the men's world handball championships in germany and denmark will see france attempting to continue to dominate it by winning a third title in a row no team from outside europe has ever won gold but angola are hoping to change that reports from copenhagen. the balance of power in humble has been set in stone for decades. but chipping away at it is a new force in african sport. dolla competing at their fourth world championships since a very sudden arrival on the international stage. on goal qualified for their first world championships and so you thousand and five just three is after the end

of that decade long civil war fourteen years later that the only sub-saharan sticky breaking the stranglehold that egypt and tunisia in african qualifying. what. it's through the civil war affected sports a lot in and because there was no competitive sports so as peace settled we got to take a step forward going outside taking part in african to a little incident qualifying to world wide tournament. first held in one nine hundred thirty eight the world championships have been dominated by europe with just an occasional challenge from north africa defending champions france hold the record with six titles while qatar the only non europeans ever to win a medal albeit with a team of international all stars and goals emergence is home grown their all and dolan and nearly all play and the young goalie.

well it's important to have athletes who are one hundred percent and goal and we are not apologists we have never sought players in other nations the angolan people are hardworking and fierce we are few but we try to work with the few we have to make them strong and get results. world championship glory is unlikely to come and go as way just yet they're still catching up with tunisia and egypt both of whom have finished fourth in past tournament's. a repeat of votes would be a big task for any of the africans in a sport that is only slowly getting a grip outside europe. paul reese al-jazeera copenhagen good luck to them well that's all the sport for now peter will have more for you later. thanks. and finally for the first time we're able to see what the far side of the moon looks like china has released

a panoramic treasure graph taken from its chunky four new approach that's the first in the history of space exploration to make a soft landing them now this image was created by merging eighty pictures taken by a camera mounted on the probe. and that's it from me nickelback back in just a moment with more of the day's news.

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in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval hispanic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word algebra we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent falls to the speed of sound they gave us the final building block find they discovered it met ableton. science in a golden age with. al-jazeera. the u.s. military says it's begun pulling out its forces from syria. this is live from doha also coming up in the program. high court rejects an appeal by

two voices journalist jailed for breaking the official secrets act. rights groups condemn the sudan security forces for attacking anti-government protesters in the hospital. and. chinese find my new factory who are way again on the scrutiny with one of its employees reportedly arrested. so that the u.s. military says it's begun pulling out its troops from syria but account lish and spokesman refused to unveil any further details such as that location or a timeline of the two thousand soldiers withdrawal sectors they might pump a was in the region to reassure allies following donald trump surprise announcement more than three weeks ago he says to put out when tend the ongoing fight against isis

for more of this let's go straightaway to mohammed our correspondent who is in gaza on top of the turkish syrian border and you can tell what's happening. well nick. ministry has a nonstop it has begun its troop withdrawal from city had them all saying a specific time line movements all of the questions they say for a professional reasons this will calm us some sort of relief to the turkish and leadership that have been intimidated by the comments of don't bolt from the u.s. national security adviser last week when he said u.s. withdrawal of its troops from turkey would be a from syria would be. a min hinged on protection for y.p. do fight is a group that is fighting in syria and i was proven quite instrumental in the fight

against them and i've been by the united states in the fight against the armed i still a group so. has always seen this group as a terrorist organization and say stuff if one cut out on offensive. aimed at clearing away not only the y.p. here but p.k. k. and. day the foreign minister of protective would have said that whether the us forces with the role all of the oppression against white fighters and fights is in mumbai which will still go on. is a very came to take over the role of the united states forces in syria are now playing which is a key to getting out in the remnants of a steel holed up in some false alarm pots all. city but there.

just because i'm told from the united states minutes of which would mean if they are content. a role for the united states military even after their withdrawal from sit right one wonders how this will square with. the us will finish the job with. all of the probability of course you. have been changing told on a clear timeline for withdrawal. the us president had said they were going to who's going to be a withdrawal of us will take place within sixty to one hundred days and then they said no they won't yes he's two one the band at one point they said it would take place within four months and then again they say there's no bottom line up for u.s. troop withdrawal from syria what. really is the fighting two is a role for the u.s.

military in halting. once it takes obama feels the vacuum but will be left by the u.s. troop withdrawal. regional policies like you know getting. nawa with the u.s. withdrawal of course the issue of russia which has unlikely meant with key to coordinate military movement which wants to ensure that all countries groups that. have moved anywhere near its borders so a lot toppling on the get on them all told shifting sun. i mean it will be very interesting to see. how long it will take for the u.s. troops to complete that was a brawl and what happens in minutes. yeah never end of challenges that lie ahead

thanks very much and even today reporting. well take he says the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not affect its operation against kurdish white b.g. fighters in the north insisting that preparations are under way the northern border is regarded by and korea as a gate to its security sunoco c.n.n. reports now from al bob which forces recaptured from weisel two years ago. the voices of innocence. children playing emmett's the complex to political standoff. these innocent lives are given a chance at life in a one size all controlled city well bob that was them rated by the turkish backed free syrian army after say two years ago. janet said today they were before their dream was to carry guns like fighters because they were afraid now they want to become a teacher an engineer like regular children or a police officer to protect their country. located thirty kilometers south of his

supporters turkey regard as a gate to its security after i saw was pushed out the turkish military now protects the local population. with the city becoming a sanctuary for internally displaced its population has increased to iran three hundred thousand people the local council begin distributing id cards in july at least sixty thousand residents have received them over crowding makes it more difficult to establish control and keep records local officials say there is in what you know when i still controlled here it first target to toast bittles schools i should leave in your civilians as a human shield during the liberation operations people lived in fear until they saw that they had an alternative think they revived and we saw the smile on our people's faces. doctors here say local people trying to be to also who are by having more children at this thirty babies are born every day in el bomb. however

life still holds many challenges for them people here in so i live as normal lives as possible but life has become more expensive here it's time to focus their loses value i guess u.s. dollars the local businessmen raise their prices and this makes it much harder for people especially those living in refugee camps and measure because that is the problem here is everyone got used to consuming even the public service workers i hope people soon begin to produce them. for their own interests or waiting for eight boxers. some say nothing much has changed for them after i still left. well yes i still work even sometimes until one am to earn my living and surviving not enough but i can't beg for money i have children to fly despite the services provided and a relatively secure environment uncertainty continues to many of them wish to go

back to their homes and are hoping and expect a turkish led military offensive east of the faith is river may make that dream become reality seen i'm pissed al-jazeera northern syria. high court judges in may have rejected and killed by reuters journalists serving seven year prison sentences or loan sharks who were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army killing of villages reporters say there were they were framed by police who gave them classified documents has this update now from bangkok. the high court in yangon announced that it had rejected this appeal in the afternoon on friday they said that there was not enough evidence that these two gentlemen were innocent so they were saying that the conviction was upheld and also is when it comes to how long they would spend behind bars they were sentenced to seven years back in september there was a possibility with the appeal that that sense could be reduced but the court's on

friday the high court in yangon saying that there was a suitable punishment of seven years because of the severity of what this case was about that it threatens to harm national security so these gentlemen for now will stay behind bars according to the high court in yangon for seven years now very soon after the word came out about this on friday the editor in chief of reuters made a statement today's ruling is yet another in justice among many inflicted upon why lone and. they remain behind bars for one reason those in power sought to silence the truth reporting is not a crime and until me and maher writes this terrible wrong the press and me and maher is not free and the inmarsat commitment to rule of law and democracy remains in doubt now for the future what could happen to these two journalists now that their appeal has been rejected the defense can appeal to the supreme court in myanmar's capital neighborhood or there's no indication or word that they will do

that yet and then the only other option for them is if unsung suchi the state council or the leader of myanmar issues a pardon but again there's no word if that's going to happen either security forces in sudan of being accused of shooting at injured protesters in hospital i mean the international says the bullets and tear gas were fired at patients being treated in them and three people were killed and of those injured or on wednesday during the latest in the month of protests against president bashir when i was international says some of the methods used by the sudanese security forces violate international law. secular forces actually follow the protesters inside the hospital and i thank them and also some of them that are injured and say used as a life or a mission and horrible situation even in conflict situations i think in hospital that's considered a war crime regardless of the news actually lethal force since the beginning of

this protest in december and the tactic that used wishes in different cities a million hostile men other towns and cities across iran and we reported that there is over almost over four fourteen people who were killed a similar number also injured since one thousand of these number and also the use of tactical mass everest wishes happening all over the country and till today. senior political activists senior political leaders they are detained and stealing the things in khartoum even the minister of interior couple of days ago admitted that they are receiving over one hundred eighty.