david mercer >>> brazil's environment minister says the government is planning to sue the owners of a dam burst this month. they will be asked to pay more than 5 billion dollars in damage. it killed at least 13 people in a village and dumped toxic waste in one main rivers. anti racism group say there has been a spike in attacks across europe. rallies against lamb has been held. from warsaw lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: having your own restaurant may be a dream come true for many people, but for the owner of this place it is a constant reminder of what he has lost. his career was interrupted after a racest attack left him with a broken arm in abuse. he grave it all up to raise a young family and now his son is getting the abuse as well. >>> i came to pick my son and one of his friends said to him, alex monday key is here for you - monkey is here for you. my son was so embarrassed. he was seven years old. i was looking at the teacher to do something. she didn't say anything. >> reporter: racism in poland is nothing new but it is getting worse. they shouted about france here which i

david mercer, al jazeera, panama city. >> and after $2.2 million makeover, the point is unveiled once again to the public claudia was there for the points official unveiling. >> water started flowing again in the point for the first time in almost a year and a half. but for the first 17 months 26 restores have been cleaning up the beautiful marbles and also improved the hidrotic lighting and surveillance system, and now look at it. it looks as beautiful as it must have looked at the end of the 18th century when it was first completed now the $2.5 million restoration works were payed in full -- now the latest italians fashion house to pay for the restoration important monuments here in rome in exchange for a tack break from the government. it has paid $1.5 million to restore and renovate the spanish steps while the italian schumacher has paid more than $25 million to clean up the whole of the coliseum. but in the case of the point, may be the only one to throw money in it. now that it is reopened to the public, italians and tourists alike will start tossing coins again in it, a traditi

. >> david mercer, these are negotiated by the campaigns themselves to protect their own candidates. isn't there a certain adversarial intention between all sides around the table that keeps these sometimes bland affairs? >> well, i think that we're seeing is bland affairs in the republican side of the debates. let's face it, they're facing a lot of headwinds, we just saw unemployment go to 5%, and 200 plus thousand jobs created in 18 consecutive months of job growth. and we also receive good gdp numbers. what's the record that these candidates have to stand on that they're looking to get out. we're not seeing much of that. as much as we're seeing the candidates for governor brown back -- you're seeing the same thing being propose the by presidential candidates. >> david, let's get off of democratic talking points. >> that's a reality. >> david, there are more people out of the workforce with this president than any time in history before. people are leaving the workforce. >> the underemployed has declined for the first time since the recession. and that's good news. >> david, more a

david mercer paid them a visit. >> reporter: inside the laboratory, an hour outside panama city, scientists work over time. for this investigator the motivation is clear - a chance to save frogs from extinction. with a deadly fungal disease threatening amphibians, the work is vital. >> translation: we are in a race against time. the fungus is spreading east across panama. we have to rescues individual frogs before the fungus gets to them, and use the frogs to establish healthy populations. >> reporter: the new state of the art lab is allowing researchers to look at ways to protect amphibians from the fungus, and get them back into the wild. a third of the amphibian species are in danger of extinction. 30% of frog species have been wiped out. scientists say programs like this are essential to their survival. building a lab in central america brought new changes. without stores to buy food for the frogs researchers have to raise the insects themselves, maintaining precise temperatures and humidity is essential, giving them the nutrients they need to thrive. >> translation: female progress mee

david mercer, al jazeera, in guatemala city. >>> let's go back to an earlier story that of the parisks which are due to start wayne couple of days or so, al jazeera's step vaessen has had an exclusive interview with the indonesian president. >> reporter: fires in large parts of indonesia during this year's dry season. a disaster not only for the environment and the global climate but also to millions of people who had to breathe toxic air for months. after international criticism over the fires, the president has decided to travel to pair toys and for help. >> translator: it was very difficult for us because this year we face el nino, which meant everything is very dry and hot. so the fires travel really fast and if this fire gee fo go in te pourest they can burn 29 meters deep. they had people trying to fight the fires but they couldn't take it out. >> reporter: a lot of the fires were caused by companies by palm oil companies and by paper and pulp companies. so what are you going to do about these companies? are you going to do frequent law enforcement, are you going punish them? >

david mercer, al jazeera, panama. >>> more on everything right here, al jazeera.com. >> this week onzeera: stand-up comedian mo amer. >> it's like, "are you a terrorist"? like literally, "are you a terrorist"? i'm like... "who says yes"? like seriously, "who says yes"? oh... you got me! you're so tricky... here's the bomb, be careful! >> he's one third of the trio "allah made me funny". >> look at this stage master allah. this is a lot of room for a palestinian, you know? >> the group uses humor to cosl

david mercer al jazeera, in guatemala city. >>> cultural traditions are being challenged at the first summit which aims to end child marriage. the practice is common in zambia from the summit tania page reports. >> reporter: the girl in this dramatization is about to be forced into a marriage. she is crying because it is the end of her childhood, but soon she is saved. but most of the time there is no rescue. while marrying someone under 18 is illegal in many african countries most have customary law where it is allowed but soon zambia may not have a duel system. >> for zambia we have decided to just have one law. so we have a marriage bill in draft right now that doesn't allow for customary marriage. >> reporter: unicef says by 2050 the number of child brides in africa will more than double to 310 million. at the first african girls summit on ending child marriage delegates are sharing ideas on how to combat it at every level of society from encouraging governments to include child protection rights in all policies, to combatting it in the rural areas where the problem is greatest. p

. >> david mercer has more. >> it's a safe house for young victims of violence. >> all of us here have been sexually called. some have babies of their own. we can't show their faces. and only with the help of psychologists are the girls able to talk about their past. >> it's really hard to hear the girl's stories. they arrive with low self yest eem. >> they lost their childhood because of this abuse. stereo it's one of the world's violent countries, a reality that they cannot escape. >> every hour, 15 children disappear. many are dead. some horribly disfigured. brutal acts in the country's history. >> culture is an every day part of life. the challenge is to strengthen institutions and reinforce the rule of law. guantanamo authorities tried to stop violence against children. a more focused approach led to arrests and prosecutions. advisor insist more needs to be done. officials - we should not tolerate these kind of things. we need to show that we can protect kids and whoever hurts a child will go to gaol. the protection specialist believes they could make it a priority. >> internation

david mercer with more. >> behind a steel door, a safe chouse for young victims of violence. all of the girls here have been sexually assaulted. some as young as 12. some have babies of their own. we can't show their faces and with the help of trusted psychologists are the girls able to talk about their past. >> it's hard to hear the stories, they arrive with no self-esteem and behavioural problems. many are depressed with suicidal thoughts. they have lost their childhood because of this abuse. >> guatemala is one of the world's violent countries, a reality that young people cannot escape. every hour a child in guatemala is beaten and rape. 15 disappear. many turn up dead. some horribly disfigured. brutal acts in the country's history. the challenge is to strengthen institutions and reinforce the rule of law. >> reporter: authorities tried to stop violence against women. a focussed approach leads to more arrests. more needs to be done. >> translation: we should not tolerate these things. we need to show congress that stricter laws are needed that we can protect kids and whoev

. >>> what you can read, more about the story, that david mercer filed from panama on our website aljazeera.com. and all the other stories we are covering for you. all at aljazeera.com. [ ♪ ] >>> hello i'm richard gizbert, and you are at "the listening post", these are some media stories we are getting across. turkey coming off an election, the a.k. party has a mandate not boding well for certain news outlets. rumours hit social media and the headlines. how news organizations can prevent that. bangladesh, where bloggers and publishers are under attack and the government failed to charge anyone with crimes against journal. >>. >> that's how you are remembered. >> reporter: and the cliche fest, the post-game news commmps. >> that's one angry outburst at a press conference. >> reporter: a week is a long time in politics, making 4 months an eparentsyy -- eternity as president recep tayyip erdogan can confirm. his party surged back into parliament with a majority. millions of turks sided with recep tayyip erdogan, telling them that the conflict with the kurdish community and i.s.i.l. in syria and ir

david mercer, al jazeera, in guatemala city. >>> lots more news on the website at al jazeera.com andwaiting in the wings with all the sports news including this one a north korean weight lifter gives a lesson how to persist after failure, do stay with us. time for sports news and sanaa and getting the davis cup news. >> great britain fighting right now with belgium on the court and take the upper hand in the davis cup finals and brothers and jamie are facing the doubles and while the teams began the day locked out one-nil in the best of five tie belgium are bidding for the title and great britain looking for the first since 1936. and murray brothers took the first set 6-4 ran belgiums fought back to take the second and also 6-4 and tie could prove crucial to deciding the over all title. in starting for poll position and grand prix where a driver had an impressive final lap in qualifying and mercy the teammate and lewis hamilton at the circuit and finished third, this is rossburg's six context poll and f 1 incentive all time record from 1988. barcelona are looking to extend their lead

david mercer in guatemala city >>> the count down to christmas is well and truly underway, particularly in the australian capital canberra this year. it has broken the world record for the most lights on an artificial christmas tree. the 22 metre tree was clad in 518,838 lights smashing the previous record, which was just over 360,000 lights was set by universal studios in japan. our website as always is aljazeera.com >>> going to the right parties, et cetera. these can be fun, but they're not - they won't sustain you. it's like junk food for cocaine >>> he went from being an relative unknown to one of the most important electronic dance music pioneers. he has made more than a dozen all bums. he has another set to come out

david mercer, al jazeera, panama. >>> time for sport now. >> thank you very much, we are going to startnd chelsea are in action and morino for the game the chelsea bus serving one-match stadium ban following his out burst to the refugee during the loss last month and goalless at half time and the second half got underway 15 minutes ago and i can say they have taken the league and scoring on 53 minutes and chelsea 15th at the table at the moment. early games and new castle move out of the allegations and lester city and 2-1 tying them with manchester city and 25 points and manchester united are fourth, manchester united are fourth after their victory against west. >> i'm very happy manager. i think we have won a difficult game, last year we lose against this opponent, probably because of death and now we have won so we have improved again. >> reporter: to the asia club season and champions league and lee the first leg of his contest between lee of the united arab emirates and ever grand producing plenty of chances but no goals and led by brasilia scalari and beaten in competition since m

david mercer, al jazeera, gamboa, panama. >> you can read about that and other top stories on our websitejazeera.com. .com. cascadia. a gentle name but an impending threat. scientists chart a fault deep under the pacific that could devastate the northwestern u.s. first by earthquake, then tsunami. the data is in, the research is clear, so why is this major subduction fault largely ignored? >> this is "techknow". a show about innovations that can change lives.

david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala city. >> cultural traditionals are challenged in a summit aimed toend child marriage. from the summit, tanya page reports. >> the girl in this dramaization is about to be forced in a marriage. she's crying because it's the end of her childhood. but soon she's saved. but most of the time there is no rescue. while marrying someone under 18 is illegal in most countries, but there are custom near laws where it is allowed. >> for zambia, we decided to just have one law. we have a marriage bill in draft right now that does not allow for customary marriages. >> they say by 2050 the number of child brides will double to 310 million. >> but delegates are sharing ideas of how to combat it at every level of society from encouraging governments to include child protection rights and policies and urging villages in the rural areas to combat it because that's where the problem is greatest. child brides are more likely to be in abusive relationships, contract hiv and die during childbirth. but they're trying to teach girls about their rights and provide a way they

david mercer paid a visit. inside the laboratory, an hour outside panama city, siementits are working overtime. for inc. investigator ibinames, the motivation is clear, a chance to save frogs from extinction. with a deadly fungal disease, the signsists' work is vital. >> we are in a race against time because the fung as appears to be spreading east wards across panama. we have to revenge u vig frogs before the fungus gets to them and use those frogs to establish healthy populations. >> this new state-of-the-art lab is allowing researchers to look at ways to protect amphibians from the fungus and get them back in to the wild. >> about a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of extinction. already around 40% of frog pieces have been wiped out. that's why scientists say that programs like this are essential to their survival. >> building a lab in central america brought new challenges. without stores to buy food for the frogs, researchers have to raise the insects, themselves maintaining precise tem

david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala city. >>> now a fitting tribute has been paid to the czech man whoented the word robot. these actors gave a performance of a play that was first staged in 1921, though back then they used humans. watch everything we are covering right here. the address, aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com.

david mercer >>> that's it for now, but checkout our website, aljazeera.com. >> it's still months before college football season kicks off, but the team at northwestern university is in the middle of a 40 hour work week. >> they are traveling more than even 10 years ago, they're being asked to sacrifice more they're asked to treat their sport as a year-round endeavor. so the demands on them are so intense that it has put them in a situation where it's like a fight or die situation.

david mercer >>> that's it for now, but checkout our website, aljazeera.com. >> it's still months before college football season kicks off, but the team at northwestern university is in the middle of a 40 hour work week. >> they are traveling more than even 10 years ago, they're being asked to sacrifice more they're asked to treat their sport as a year-round endeavor. so the demands on them are so intense that it has put them in a situation where it's like a fight or die situation. >> players earn no pay other than a scholarship to attend class. their coach, pat fitzgerald, says that's compensation enough for student athletes. >> i'm a football coach, i'm a teacher, i'm an educator, alright? this isn't what i signed up to be, i signed up to help these guys develop to be the best they can be, not to be an employer. >> but in january, his players demanded to be considered employees, becoming the first college team to seek a union. >> guys come in here and bash all day, then then they're injured 5 years down the road and they get nothing. >> right now, athletes don't receive long-term medic

david mercer, al jazeera, gamboa, panama. >> you can read about that and other top stories on our website, aljazeera.com. .com. cascadia. a gentle name but an impending threat. scientists chart a fault deep under the pacific that could devastate the northwestern u.s. first by earthquake, then tsunami. the data is in, the research is clear, so why is this major subduction fault largely ignored? >> this is "techknow". a show about innovations that can change lives. >> the science of fighting a wildfire. >> we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity, but we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science... >> oh! >> oh my god! >> by scientists. >> tonight, techknow investigates the cascadia fault. >> hey guys and welcome to techknow i'm phil torres and with me today dr. crystal dilworth and marita davison. today we're going to be talking about the devastating potential of earthquakes and in particular we're concerned about one that many may not even know about. >> that's right when most people think about the big one they're thinking about california's san an

david mercer, al jazeera, panama. >>> more on everything right here, al jazeera.com. >> this week on talk to al jazeera: stand-up comedian mo amer. >> it's like, "are you a terrorist"? like literally, "are you a terrorist"? i'm like... "who says yes"? like seriously, "who says yes"? oh... you got me! you're so tricky... here's the bomb, be careful! >> he's one third of the trio "allah made me funny". >> look at this stage master allah. this is a lot of room for a palestinian, you know? >> the group uses humor to combat islamophobia and challenge misconceptions about muslims. amer is a palestinian, born and raised in kuwait. his family fled the country in the lead-up to the persian gulf war. >> we lost everything overnight, banks were shut down - everything gone... and that's when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. you know, that's when i found out my mother's a gangster. >> the family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. >> which is really great because i'm brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflag

david mercer, al jazeera, guatemala city. >> the u.k.coast guard off the southwest coast of england. it thought that the wreckage was from a rocket. the unmanned rocket was carrying cargo to the international space station when it blue up minutes after take off in june. the ten meter long piece was mistaken for a dead whale. >>> there is more to come for you in the program. all the latest sports news. cricket played at night for the first time ever. we'll have details coming up very shortly. >> it's time for your sport. >> thank you very much. andy murray in the davis caught finals. britain one nil down. making short work of the first two sets. the two-time grand lam grand slam on saturday. >> always tough. never easy. just because of the way doubles are played and can be so you know, i believe we can win the title, obviously, otherwise there would be no point of us being here. >> belgium's win comes thanks to an amazing come back they turned around the deficit to win the five-set match. and we'll get you up to speed on the latest cricke

david mercer, al jazeera, panama city. >> well, there is much more to come after the break. including in sports the strong start to the paris campaign. all that after the break. >> the fifa football confederation has pleaded not guilty of bribery charges. being extradited to the u.s. from switzerland accused of taking bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with sports marketing rights. >> this indian cricket captain is attempting to turn america on to cricket. two teams of retired cricketing stars will play matches. >> cricket stars plan to play in america because americans are known to be very sporting persons, and if cricket gets big here, it will be extremely satisfying. we want to globalize cricket into america. i think that means a lot to us. so to globalize sports is our dream and our vision, and it starts with america. but we're not here to compete with any other sport. just to popularize cricket and encourage americans to pick up a cricket bat along side a baseball bat. >> england will 306 on day three giving the lead of 72 runs and unbeaten 97 they finished

david mercer went to visit the high-tech premises. >> inside this laboratory, an hour outside panama city, scientists are working overtime. for the investigators, the motivation is clear - a chance to save frogs from extinction. with a deadly fungal disease, threatening amphibians, the work is vital. >> we are in a race against time. the fungus appears to be spreading eastwards. we have to rescue frogs before the fungus gets to them and use them to establish healthy populations. >> the new sit of the art lab allows referencers to look at ways to -- researches to look at amphibians and get them back into the wild. >> reporter: a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger, many have been wiped out. scientists say programs like this are essential to their survive until. -- survival. a lab brought new challenges. researchers have to raise the insects themselves. maintaining temperatures is essential, giving amphibians the newtry jnts they need to drive. >> female frogs need a lot in their diet. we need to make sure they are well fed. which collapsed from a few days to a month.

david murphy. >> i hop you haul a nice thanksgiving we're are into the friday afterwards now and we have an issue weather-wise. dense fog 9:00 into mercer couldn't yes and new castle county delawareen included in parts of southeastern pennsylvania you might run to fog this morning visibility right now shows you in and out worst problems are airport up and town the state of delaware and even down in parts of kent county now. lancaster also seeing some low visibility levels. cloud cover once we get rid of low stuff will start to melt away we'll wind up with more coming in. mix of clouds and sun. temperatures-wise starting out cool, 42 in philadelphia and still 30s in allentown, reading, lancaster, trenton and melville. still 7 and winds light. as we head out the dar to get the star are car started low 40s between 6en eight a.m. as we head no the weekend high of 66 and by 6:00 down to 59. cooler over the weekend and cloudier and dalp too i'll have details coming up in the exclusive accuweather 7 day forecast, matt. >> oh, y dok. david, how was the turkey? >> it was yum. >> did the carving. >> a lot of people suffering from a turny hangover