tanya page, al jazeera johannesburg. >> the industry's latest innovations, many of the gadgets involved sensors are taking center stage. tarek bazley reports. >> until now motion sensors have been too expensive and not accurate enough. >> so a lot of the accomplishments we do are performance based what we're doing is bringing in performance measures which help the audience and the judges truly measure what the athletes did all metrics go into determining your final score. >> and data becomes important for action sports as well. this bmx rider has on board a motion tracker that allows him to track movements as small as 5 millimeters in real time. data recorded 400 times a second. sensors are small enough to be fit in the handle of a tennis record. that means every stroke can be recorded and analyzed. >> you have your average and the forehand and the backhand. then, at that you can analyze your play and this is way i taught before, the rocket, that means you improve. the improve came from you. >> help industries including agriculture and manufacturing. the use of smart vending machines li

erica wood, al jazeera johannesburg, south africa. >> you can always find much more about our story over on our website, aljazeera.com aljazeera.com, for all your international news. our country is almost unique in people believing that global warming is not a human cause. >> robert kennedy, jr., a lifelong advocate of the environmental movement thanks in part to memories of his dad prior to his father's assassination in 1968. >> my father considered this part of our heritage and our

erica wood, al jazeera johannesburg, south africa. >> you will see stories behind the stories and of course all of the headlines on our website aljazeera.com, one of our stories we're covering in detail we'll see you here, live in berlin the stage still empty but we are expecting angela merkel and the greek prime minister pretty soon to talk about grease's financial problems. greece's financial problems. vo: visitors to london could be forgiven for thinking they are seeing a quintessentially british town. the imperial architecture.

erica wood, al jazeera johannesburg, south africa. >> you can always find much more about our story over on our website, aljazeera.com aljazeera.com, for all your international news. our country is almost unique in people believing that global warming is not a human cause. >> robert kennedy, jr., a lifelong advocate of the environmental movement thanks in part to memories of his dad prior to his father's assassination in 1968. >> my father considered this part of our heritage and our purple mountains' majesty. kennedy says those who sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty. are: >> sociopaths. >> he warns american values are under attack. >> it's hard to claim we have a democracy in our country. >> kennedy talks about his life and personal struggles. >> i started taking trucks when i was young. soon after my dad died. but everybody has tried them. the enemy of any productive life is civil pity. >> he reflects on the month he spent in a port rican prison thanks to his activism. >> you ask what it was like? experience. >> we have spoke to robert kennedy, jr., lawyer, activist

erica wood, al jazeera, johannesburg, south africa. >> lots more still to come here on al jazeera.we report from one of the front lines in the fight against boko haram in southeast nigeria. >> right here we have one of the last great places on earth. >> a paradise lost. south sudan's wildlife caught in the cross fire. and more on sport. stay with us. behalf >> yemen's embattled government has asked for help to fight shia howell houthi rebels. >>> senegal's former president's son has been sentenced to six years. >>> and singapore has declared six days of national mourning after the death of its founding father lee kuan yew. he'll be laid to rest in a state funeral on sunday. >>> joint forces from niger and chad have killed several dozen boko haram fighters in northern nigeria. the offense took place in the borno state across niger. this is the latest move in a joint force mission to take on boko haram. we have reports from one of of the battlefields in northeast nigeria. [♪ singing ♪] >> reporter: preparing for an attack on boko haram. the troops are upbeat about this assignment aft

erica woods al jazeera, johannesburg, south africa. >> still to come, the african legacy of former philippinespresident marcos. >>> and in sport the man who wants to unseed blatter as president, and those campaigning in one of blatter's strongholds. >> now you wouldn't normally expect to see a family of giraffes out for a stroll in the philippines. but there are a few on the island along with many other animals from africa. we have the story on how exactly they got there. >> it is dubbed africa in the philippines. this safari park is home to animals on 400,000-hectares of reserve. the park is it's least known attractions. they have been working here for almost 40 years. he tells me the story of how former president ferdinand marcos envisioned the park after a trip to africa. in 1976 over 100 animals were shipped from kenya evicting 200 families in the process. the marcos were known to have stolen billions of dollars from government coffers and this was to be his private zoo. he was eventually overthrown by a revolution. caretakers continue to work under limited conditions. often they're not pa

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