fortunately -- >> apologize we lost the shot from adelaide. if we get it back we'll pass it along to you. congratulations to the winner. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, more on the controversy surrounding the technology of drones. typewriters are still being used in one country. we'll tell you why. victoria azarenko [[voiceover]] every day, events >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. the headlines, the focus has shifted to end the impasse. >>> talks came after senate democrats rejected a republican bill to end the government shutdown and extend the nation's debt limit. the senate will resume talks tomorrow. >>> despite the government shutdown some national parks including the statue of liberty, mount rushmore and yellowstone national park are reopening. a bill to reimburse the states is under consideration. >>> a powerful cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds struck india's eastern coastline. at least three people are dead. according to the typhoon center the storm is packing winds of 115 miles per hour.

in adelaide australia inside one of the cars that has just completed the world's longest race for solared powered cars. >>> and they are in a debacle to find the shanghai masters. find out if he prevailed. more on that in sports. ♪ >>> welcome back you are watching al jazeera. a quick reminder of our top stories here. begun megunmen in syria have abd six red cross workers. they were returning from d dasmascus from a mission in england. they are demanding their immediate release. >>> eighty people have been killed in a stampede in a temple in central india. pilgrims were gathering for a remission ufor areligious salva. >>> a youth leader has launched his own youth movement for the launch of the economic freedom fighters party in africa. >>> we are getting reports of two suicide bomber attacks in the syrian capital of d dasmasc. they believe the bombs were targeting state tv headquarters. no casualty have been reported so far. we'll bring you more as it comes to us in al jazeera. >>> some of the worst abuses if syria are happening in government detention facilities. that is a warning from a

nhk world, adelaide, australia. >>> the scientists in australia say they may have found a way to find gold without having to dig for it. the key is traces of gold in eucalyptus leaves. a team from their science and technology discovered gold in the leaves in eucalyptus trees. they say the trees act like hydraulic pumps draw up gold ore through their roots. the particles are 1/5 the width of a human hair. >> we've only really scratched the surface with this research. we found that some trees will take up gold. others don't. and so we need to do some more research to find out why this is happening, to make it into a robust exploration technique. >> researchers say mining gold from the leaves is unlikely, but the findincould lead to a cheaper way to locate gold deposits with less damage to the environment. >>> and time now for a check on the weather. people in southern japan are dealing with the effects of a powerful typho. our meteorologist gives us the latest. >> hello there. typhoon francisco hasn't moved a whole lot since yesterday. it's been lingering along the southwestern islands

happened around 8:45 last night when the suspects forced their way into a women's van at 46th and adelaide. she was forced to drive to an atm and take out money. the suspects dropped her off at high street and international boulevard. no arrests have been made and that van has not been found. >>> campbell police are looking for four people they believe are connected to the shooting of a bouncer at a nightclub early saturday morning. investigators released this 52- second surveillance video on youtube. it shows three men and a woman entering the club called the spot in downtown campbell. police say they bought drinks and went outside to the parking lot. investigators believe the man in the camouflage pants is the one who shot and wounded the bouncer. when the bouncer asked him to turn down loud music. >> we've been analyzing the video and looking at the specific tattoos, especially on the left forearm and the right hand. and we're optimistic that we'll be able to identify the tattoos and the persons associated with those. >> the bouncer is recovering. police say the four left in two cars, a

new president of the international olympic committee thomas back in the open the new transport in adelaide just further down the coast from now the joy confirms that the sporting venues all of them will be all should be ready on time they're almost complete now it's just the finishing touches that are being made on thomas back also said that these one hundred days of going to be the busiest for the organizers and president putin also took the opportunity to try to lay some fears concerning russia's so-called antigay law of course banning the promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minus we'll do everything to ensure that all competitors and guests at the winter olympics in sochi too comfortable regardless of race or sexual orientation and every sporting venue has been built from scratch but despite the scale of the undertaking the message from the organizers is clear the searching will be reading. one hundred days remaining. days of flame. and a couple of minutes so we take a look at the part of the economy that slipping into the shadows out the back. torch is on its epic journey t

of anything their petrol-powered cousins attempt. 3,000km, from darwin in the tropical north to adelaide on the south coast. the cars were driven during daylight. the drivers and support teams camping wherever they end up overnight. fires was the car from the neth , completing the -- netherlands completing it in over three hours. >> we have a better model. we have concentrators, more efficiently solar cells and laminate giving us extra income. >> it may be held together with sticky tape, but the car has a top speed of 180kph. teams from 20 countries raced. some competed for the first time this year in a cruiser class - cars with passenger seats. they were judged on speed, space, energy efficiency and comfort. >> this from idaho university took the honours. >> these cruiser cars are practical for the ones built. they are more like the ones you may see on the road. crucially, they still have to be just as light. >> when energy is precious, you make every bit count. >> it was the number one extent at home with the old cars - it looks cool, but it looks like a spaceship. we want something th

an express commuter train in adelaide, australia, is traveling down the tracks at almost 60 miles perour. it's passing through the maoson lake station when someone comes running from behind the train stopped on the opposite track. security camera footage from inside the train captures the moment. before the driver can react, the young man is running across the tracks. in a split second, he disappeared from the driver's line of sight. the driver hits the brakes and the train comes to a halt well past the station, but what happened to the young man? as the train comes in to the station, the young man dives for the opposite platform. a daring move. just as he falls out of view of the camera on board the train, he comes into view on a security camera at the station. he makes it on to the platform by mere millimeters. but he doesn't escape harm completely. when the train speeds by, it clips and breaks his ankle. authorities release the footage during national rail safety week. police say the unidentified 17-year-old was trying to change platforms. he was arrested and convicted of stopping

she loved adelaide stevenson. we probably under played this so far. talking about the death of f.d.r. his great legacy is the united nations. and that's what franklin roosevelt saw is what his legacy is going to be. eleanor roosevelt worked famously. there's no nd figure more synonymous. and here she is talking about that [applause] >> we stand today at the threshold of a great event. both in the light of the united nations and in the light of mankind. this universal declaration of human rights may well become the international magna carta of all men everywhere. we hope that the proclamation would be an event comparable to the approximation of the declaration of the hearts of man. by the french people in 1789. the adoption of the bill of rights by the people of the united states and the adoption of comfortable declare rations at different times and other countries. >> and thaffles eleanor roosevelt in 1948. alita black. > i wonder we would not have commission. >> i want to ask your viewers to imagine one thing. you have 18 people sitting around the ta

one of the things you find in the book is politicians from eleanor roosevelt, adelaide stephenson touncil, because of that candid he gave them, it was always caring, warm in a way, but boy was it bracing. he pulled no punches. >> the letters are strikingly honest, strikingly honest, many of them. and it provides you a window into the lost art of letter writing. i don't know whether people are going to be putting up several books of e-mails in the future, but the expressions of the letters are really unique. arthur schlesinger wrote jackieden kennedy after her husband was assassinated. dearest jackie, nothing i can say request mitigate the shame and horror of this day, your husband was the most brilliant and able and inspieshing member of my generation. he was the one man to whom this kund u country could confide its destiny with confidence and hope. he animated everything -- he led with passion and wit. your family and one small slice of his life, yet, it evoked such emotion in him, both with the president and with robert kennedy and i'm wondering, what impact that had on the two of