finishing fourth at the london 2012 paralympics.se athletes are living and training far from home. the continuing conflict has meant they lost funding and access to their craft. but, they have not lost their winning spirit. >> tim is one of the team's greatest hoax. a group of young, disabled athletes from northern ukraine are highly motivated. many of the young athletes were orphans, or placed in children's homes by their parents when they were babies. now, the coach is like a mother to them. >> she helps make sure we get vocational training. at the same time, we prepare for competitions. first at the national level then for the european championships. >> she is hoping she will be able to take her youngsters to italy this summer. just taking part would be an achievement for tim. it was a major achievement that the group could train here at all. the town lies in eastern ukraine. this used to be the kid's summer camp. now it is their refuge. their hometown is nearby, but on the other side of the front lines. it is occupied by rushing

government officials said the ambitious new goal with eye on paralympics and olympics in 2020. authorities plan to ease visa requirements for tourist from china, indiana, philippines, russia and vietnam. here's a look at some of the other business stories we're following. japan's housing starts rose almost 8% in february from the same month last year. land ministry officials say construction began on nearly 73,000 units. number of built for sale condominium was up for the first time in six months. apple has returned to a smaller screen size for its latest iphone. the new model has a camera and data processing speed equal to the 6s hand set released last september. but it's cheaper and comes in the more compact size of earlier iphone models. apple says in the october to december quarter sales grew at its slower pace ever. >>> managers at smaller japanese firms that to expand overseas are increasingly targeting foreign workers to help and they don't have to look far. many are recruiting people who came to japan to study and stayed to try to build a career. >> reporter: a chinese

. >> reporter: that's paralympic athlete lex gillette, no practice for that, and some of the athletes were asked to get down and show off their dance skills or worse, u.s. swimmer nathan adrian hoping to make it to his third olympics, but first, he has to get through the 2016 media summit photo shoot with people throwing water on him over and over and over again, part of the fun in an olympic year. >> we're all excited. there is nothing more fun than the olympic year for us. you know, it's fun to go out best in the biggest state. >> reporter: it's not all fun and games. while everyone is looking at the 2016 olympic, organizers are talking about why los angeles is the perfect place to host the summer olympics in 2024. l.a. picks up the baton after boston decided to drop their bid for the summer games, and a lot of supporters are saying that l.a. is the perfect city because a lot of infrastructure is already in place and they won't have to spend as much as others and a lot of athletes are out here trying to drum up support. here, talking about the 2016 summer olympics in rio coming up i

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the government hopes to make the 2020 tokyo olympics and paralympics the games of recovery. it will showcase the disaster-hit areas to the world by having the torch relay run through. the plan said the government will play a leading role in recovery in fukushima prefecture. the government plans to lift all evacuation orders for the municipalities by the end of areas with the highest levels of radioactive contamination. and nhk survey shows efforts to rebuild houses in three prefectures are proceeding slowly. nhk assessed projects in dozens of municipalities. it found fewer than half of the 44,000 odd houses due for construction are ready. local authorities have promised more than 24,000 public housing units. they completed just over half and developers have finished barely a third of roughly 20,000 new private homes. municipal officials blamed the delay on negotiations with landowners. people outside of japan have held events to remember victims and share their opens for the recovery of the disaster-hit areas. college students from north eastern japan attended a ceremony in

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penny is an acrobat and record-breaking swimmer from the paralympics. she has extremely brittle bones. in fact, in her life she's broken over 200. >> wow.

they're just like the paralympics but only veterans injured or sick can participate. the games give this veteran another reason to fight. >> they allow us the opportunity to serve our country in a different capacity. i mean, being on the u.s. team is such an honor for us. >> the games run from may 8th through the 12th. more than 500 men and women from 15 countries are expected to be in town. >>> this is your 11:00 sports presented by lexus of orlando. tonight with 27 wins, their most since 2012. but only one of those wins was on the road against the team that currently has a winning record which is a fancy way of saying they're probably going to have a tough time in california tonight. magic starting a four-game road trip in golden state. vucevic out with a strained groin. aaron gordon lifting off. magic up 1 after that beauty of a dunk. a few minutes later, stephen curry with the dime. golden state with the 6-point lead. and curry can shoot, too, in case you didn't know. three 3s in the 1st quarter. curry and the warriors bouncing back. they currently lead by 10 in t

penny is an acrobat and record-breaking swimmer from the paralympics. she has extremely brittle bones. in fact, in her life she's broken over 200. >> wow. >> oh, my gosh. >> but inspired as she was as many of us are by his video, she contacted him on facebook and said, i want in. and he invited her along. now he's walking up, as you can see, with penny on his back. because penny wants to do acrobatics on the top of this mountain and he's only too happy to help. they've got the matching acrobat outfits. >> and now they are both out there balancing on some edge. >> very carefully he dangles her over the edge. >> wow! as afraid of heights as i am, i think it is so cool because it proves it doesn't matter what your flight in life is, you can do whatever you want to set your mind to. >> it is incredible and inspirational. >>> there's nothing more rewarding than being able to rescue our animals. but i saw two videos of two very special rescue moments. this first one, you see that there's a little puppy who has fallen in this sewer drain. but you see that thes

. >> reporter: that is a paralympic athlete singing on the spot, no warning, did a great job. other things we get to see at the summit, athletes show off cars from their sports but some lucky athleteerize not only asked about the upcoming olympics but want to show off dance skills or worst u.s. swimmer nathan adriane is looking to win but has to get through the media summit shoot with people showing water over and over and over him again. part of the fun at the summit. >> we are all excited. there is nothing more fun than the olympic year for us, because, you know, it is fun to compete against the world's best on the biggest stage. >> reporter: it is not just fun and games while everyone is out the 2016 olympic summit organizers with la 2024 are talking why los angeles is the perfect city to host in 2024. the u.s. hasn't hosted a summer olympics since 1996, last in salt lake, winter games in 2002. la picked up the baton to host summer games after boston bowed out, said they didn't want to spend the money, but organizers say in a lot of the infrastructure is already built and t

as was the paralympics, but when it was over there was really question marks about public participationout access to playing fields. people aren't convinced. but what is indisputable is the continued staggering success of the british cycling team. and they will be expecting more medals here in the next few days. it has been an incredible story starting a decade ago, where the master coach with his attention to detail, made sure that our british team went on to win seven gold medals on the track alone in beijing, and followed it here with another 7 on the track in the 2012 olympics. he has now gone on to concentrate on team sky, but now they can join an experienced team. i'm not sure we're allowed to be this close, but you see this track. it's siberian pine in a venue that cost over $150 million to build. and the public are making use of it, because for two years, over 1.5 million people have visited here and the park is part of the bigger picture, the part of a regeneration. they won't be using it this week, because the world championships are taking place, but there will be spectators,

amy: in south africa, a court has rejected olympic and paralympic runner oscar pistorius' right to appeal his conviction of murdering his girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day in 2013. last year, an appeals court ruling overturned a lower court's decision to convict pistorius on the lesser charge of manslaughter. pistorius faces a minimum 15-year sentence. in texas, state trooper brian encinia has formally been fired 8 months after he arrested 28-year-old african-american sandra bland, who was found hanged in her jail cell three days after her arrest. dashcam footage of the arrest shows encinia dragging sandra bland out of her car and threatening to light her up. sandra bland can later be heard on video accusing the police officer of slamming her head into the ground. she tells them she has epilepsy to which trooper encinia , replies, "good." in january, encinia indicted on perjury charges for lying to a grand jury about the traffic stop. authorities say bland committed suicide while in jail, a claim her family rejects. in argentina, a nobel peace prize winning human rights activi