euro who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet and finally set their people free that they will get a few novenas vella reestablishing democracy in venezuela is a shared interest between the two administrations the dictatorial regime in venezuela today is part of a broader international coalition known as the sao paulo forum which nearly conquered power throughout latin america in recent times however by democratic means we were able to rid ourselves from that project in brazil. unusually wet weather on the west coast of the us has turned some hillsides into a blanket of wild flowers so for bloom so-called of color has attracted crowds of one city in california but it's also caused a headache of sorts reynolds has got more. southern california's hillsides have put on their most gorgeous garment a brilliant robe composed of countless golden poppies it's a rare sight in this usually brown and dusty land heavy winter rains brought forth

the blossoms in such abundance that the super bloom as it is known is attracting q.j. crowds to gaze in all it nature's splendor it's amazing it's like we're in heaven most people are chained to a desk and they don't get the chance to see anything like this and you can't even get this on your widescreen t.v.'s i don't think you get to see it up front you got to see it you guys you actually have to see it with your own eyes a few days ago so many people flock to walker canyon near the town of lake elsinore that mayor steve monoliths had to temporarily close the area we just didn't have the crowd control necessary to deal with the enormity of this which. we thought twenty thousand people maybe and we got a hundred and so disneyland usually gets forty four thousand on any given day so you can figure that you can do the numbers now things are under control with extra parking and more shuttle buses provided we're asking everyone to be kind of mind

the trails don't pick the poppies don't own the poppies the kind of nature of the california poppy or s shoulder california is the official flower of the golden state much of its original habitat has been lost to development and invasive plants species some people make a pilgrimage to the wild flowers whenever they appear like a curious sato whose late mother brought him when he was his own son lucas's age the poppy is the sign of remembrance so you know looking at poppy's is a good way to remember your loved ones who have passed the poppies hay day will be brief a week or two at most in the fourteenth century the persian poet hoffa's said spring and all its flowers now joyously break their vowell of silence it is time for celebration. soon the sun will draw the verdant hills and the poppies will

return to the earth as all things mortal must. but for now it is a time for celebration robert oulds. lake elsinore california still ahead and. playoffs.

i thought it was bored to tears by rob thank you so much basketball star james harden has made more n.b.a. history he's become the first player to record a thirty point game against all of the league's twenty nine other teams and

a single season the last franchise on hardin's list where the atlanta hawks got the record by scoring a thirty one points against them on choose day helping his houston rockets team win one hundred and twenty one to one hundred five the closest anyone's come to hard in its milestone is coping bryant to manage thirty points against twenty teams in one season. it's the latest record this season for the reigning m.v.p. in february he set a mark of thirty two consecutive thirty point games which is the most since the n.b.a. merged with its rival league in one nine hundred seventy six he also recorded for fifty point triple doubles which is the most in n.b.a. history he did it with a game winning display against the l.a. lakers in december this season harder is averaging thirty five point eight points per game if he keeps add up to have the best regular six scoring average since michael jordan's thirty seven point zero nine and the nine hundred eighty six to

eighty seven season or earlier we spoke to robert let's how black sports online he said despite hartman's achievements he's still got a long way to go before he can be considered one of the all time greats. player he's a player that's like he said great you know a lot of records are without question say that he's one of the. players in the right now as far as you know go. it is the mark time you know that's a very you know lofty list with a lot of heavy hitters on it and i don't know james who i mean has the audio work to say put him up in a top two or top beat. beat you see the potential for him getting to that you know level but what you really see where you're talking about top ten players in the n.b.a. specifically is all those players have multiple championships and no matter the

stats are not big russell westbrook is another example of this no matter what type of legendary stabs a record breaking stats they put up would be hard for them to break into the top two and time unless they stored away some championships or claim that so now a step closer to reaching the n.b.a. playoffs they rallied from twenty down to be sacramento kings dassault russell scored a career high forty four points fully proclaimed to one hundred twenty three to one hundred twenty one when it snap a four game losing streak that set seventh in the western conference. in the us even casual sports fans are getting caught up in what's known as march madness it's the men's and women's basketball tournaments that are two of the largest annual events in college athletics there is lots of money to be made but at the moment not of the goes to the players jon heder reports he's trying to back up a double play at march madness and other college sports tournaments when fans buy

tickets in jerseys bearing the faces in numbers of athletes universities reap millions the athletes make nothing none of those players on the field the ones who are. running the football kicking the soccer ball playing basketball none of them are compensated it's really it is it is a foreign concept to most people outside of this nation but here it's real and the student athletes on the one suffer even many college coaches think that's wrong it's a big big business piece big money and the reason people are in the business is to try to make money in can make it an honest case that the student athletes. are the ones that create the money but really receive very little of it so i think i think there will be an adjustment i don't know the magnitude of it but i look forward to seeing some changes. now in north carolina congressman hopes to change that republican mark walker's bill would let all students men and women alike playing

all n.c.a.a. sports and money when their names are images used players would still get nothing when teams use their names in jersey numbers to advertise games universities would still pay only for scholarships but the change in law would allow players to collect on third party endorsements so one day soon it's just possible you might see american college players pitching sports drinks clothes and shoes ninety nine percent of college athletes will never make it as a pro they're paid in scholarships and education alone and that's fine with some coaches the vast majority of college jeff. his college basketball players are probably happy to have a full scholarship and the cost of attendance and leave college with a degree and a great basketball player experience there has been a slow erosion in the status of college athletes it's similar to the rules that eventually allowed professionals to take part in the olympics earlier this month

a u.s. judge ruled that the n.c.a.a. violated antitrust laws by capping the amount universities can spend on scholarships but for now college athletes will have to play for the love of the game john hendren al-jazeera chicago world heavy weight champion dante wilder is named his next opponents. one. of. there is to be no rematch just yet against britain's tyson syria after their compelling draw last december instead the w.b.c. champion will fight fellow american dominic brazil in may reasons only korea last came against the man who holds all the other world heavyweight titles and. if i label excitement because it was the fear i was more bynum or career because of the situation and the position that i was in this right here going top everything because i'm artistic flamed up on heart without even have to get high. it's the final stretch of the n.h.l. a regular season things are heating up on the ice as teams fight for

a spot in the postseason on the glass came off in new york as the islanders not martin got into it with boston's end of chara urines had one six consecutive meetings between teams heading into the game and they kept up their dominance over the islanders boston completing a five nothing shut out again. and over nashville the predators shut out visiting twa tell me please for the second time this season brian baldwin simmons and phillips asked for all spoiled to give the predators a prenup when natural one their third straight and hold within one point of first place one of and then the division. and that's all your support for now back to you thanks very much indeed for american stars a televised singing competition that's the equivalent of american idol one of the finalists and it's fourteen season as teenagers. both her voice and her story has gained attention she comes from the taliban stronghold of gosney province.

my name azhar alum i am one of the afghan star finalists i'm eighteen years old and i'm from the province. i was so excited to join afghan star at the beginning i didn't know if i would make it into the first round and then people voted for me and the judges gave me good feedback and then i got into the final twelve now it's just down to me and one other over there. my father and mother were always encouraging me to become a singer along with some of my relatives only my uncle was not happy with me performing but my mother continued to encourage me more than everyone she encouraged me so much. my outfit is representative of kabul when. we used to have these types of clothes in gaza as well as in kabul and that's why i've decided to wear this dress for my past two so my role models are afghan signet daoud so hoosh and one of the judges.

when i saw them perform i wanted to sing just like them and then they got up the courage to into afghanistan outside of afghanistan my role models that justin bieber and selena gomez. and i dream to be a professional one popular singer in the future and i hope i can sing in different languages for all different people like an english. language is. i want to make very nice songs that are of mantic and patriotic. lots more and all these stories of course on the web site al-jazeera dot com elizabeth put on i'm going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories i robot.

against the odds and influence of the devastating loss of their loved ones and their homes women from crucial have shown enormous resilience fighting against the odds to keep going in the absence of their beloved brothers fathers. twentieth to the possible al-jazeera while tells the story of female courage in a village but lost all of its. women of crucial on al-jazeera. plays children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds the book his mother is dead her father is gone killed

because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is celine skew home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home al-jazeera is there want us to leave rates but also that to see what happens next actuation on. fired by the barrier square mobile barricaded seventh street that maybe to here the middle east now it's been all about change people have gone hospital here the area the mission of the national army is to search the entire oil complex and i'll just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture.

the first funerals were held for the victims of the mosque attacks in new zealand and. hello and welcome to al-jazeera our life at headquarters and. also ahead after the mosques tragedy a diplomat mattick war words between turkey and australia. international aid starts arriving in mozambique zimbabwe and communities try to dig themselves out of the devastation. it's amazing it's like we are in heaven and taking time to smell the flowers the unusual phenomena in california that is drawing tens of thousands of visitors.

the first funerals have been held in new zealand for the victims of last week's mosque attacks a father and son who fled the war in syria were laid to rest in christ church where fifty people were shot dead during friday prayers thirty bodies have now been released to families reports it's five days since worshippers was shot dead in two christchurch mosques and the bodies of the victims are being released for burial here a father and his son khaled moustapha and his teenage son hamza were refugees from syria they and their family arrived in new zealand last year among the mourners holmes's younger brother who was shot and wounded in the attack on the mosque. holmes i had attended kashmir high school in christchurch along with another of the victims it was there that the prime minister was welcomed on wednesday with the traditional modi haka one of the. oh.

was one of the messages that i want to hear to our gang people in particular he said ok to grieve is ok to ask for how even if you were directly effected these things these images that people are saying they are really really difficult to proceed some injured in the attack of now left christchurch hospital after treatment but many remain some in critical condition the medical staff say that tired but proud of the way they've responded to what was an unprecedented number of gunshot wounds gunshot injuries aren't uncommon for us we normally see went to a month and we normally see one to two critically injured contract i should say year or so about six in the last three days but to get forty eight in one day is exceptional hoping to be exceptional for any hospital in the world actually the mosques where the attacks took place are still under police guard but people are hoping they'll reopen in time for friday prayers most of the focus now is on

cleaning and reconstruction of the mosques worshippers want to be able to return for what would be difficult emotional and poignant friday prayers but they also don't want any physical reminders of what happens the prime minister has announced that friday's call to prayer will be broadcast on television and radio around new zealand and then two minute silence will be held to honor those who were killed wayne hay al jazeera christchurch. now there's a diplomatic rift between australia and turkey in the aftermath off the mosque attacks president one has lent the question shootings to a strain his involvement in turkey during the first world war he accused his training and new zealand of having an anti.