tom ackermann, al jazeera washington. >> still to come on the news hour a famous psychiatric hospital museum opens in london. >> new guinea, a country with ambitions one day to play the cricket world cup. >> back to cricket the on going world cup includes 14 countries but plenty more have ambitions. they include new guinea. we have a report where cricket is the game of choice. >> >> the contradict world cup may be grabbing the attention in australia and new zealand but for new guinea, this is where the action is. no day goes by without matches springing up all along the road. introduced by 19th century missionaries cricket has flourished here without spreading much beyond village borders. bowlers fish bowls out from under the homes built on stilts. >> the kids play for fun but as they grow up, they start to have this bigger dream of playing outside. >> for those who do, it can mean an escape from poverty and the dangers of the port, one of the world's most crime-ridden cities. the challenge is close to putting them on the big stage. >> cricket has been part of life here for more than

in the last part of our series on depopulation, tom ackermann went to portland in the state of maine,ch hopes to attract more young people. >> for 80 years this paper mill gave the people a steady living and identity, but in december, it shut down forever throwing 500 people out of work. >> it was a place to apply for a job. now there's no mill. >> you think of them, they make paper. that's what they do and that's what it was about. now we have to find something else to be about. >> in this rural state the decline of such natural resource industries compounds its demographic dilemma. more deaths than pictures and a shrinking workforce due to the oldest median age in the u.s. >> the truth is not that we drove young people away, it's that we didn't make enough of them. >> in places like the city of bangor the city is being attacked by promoting ingredients that make it a magnet. >> you can buy a house here for $125,000. that's a great deal. combined with strong opportunities, it makes the area to be looked at for maybe the first time. >> hispanics birth rate is higher than other groups

tom ackermann has the latest. >> the caracas mayor was arrested by intelligence police dressed in camouflage. he has been indicted for conspiracy to plot violence. he was transferred pending trial to a military prison, the same place another opposition leader has been held for the past year, reportedly in solitary confinement. state run television said the conspiracy included an assassination attempt on maduro. it says he co-signed plans for a transitional government to replace the venezuelan president. >> i will never give in to the enemy, and i will fight however i can against the traitors and the oligarchy. >> at shortages of basic commodities force venezuelans to cue outside grocery stores, the government blames the opposition and u.s. for what it calls an economic war to destabilize the country. >> i am saying that they are the ones imposing the rationing and restrictions, which are strangling our people, so we must in the first place close ranks for our homeland and the revolution. >> this is a continued effort ongoing. i feel like we talk about these incidents once a week at least of

tom ackermann has more. >> relatives and friends of the 26-year-old humanitarian aid worker struggled with the news. they tried to find consolation in a letter that reached her parents last year. >> in kayla's letter, she wrote "i have come to see there is good in every situation sometimes we just have to look for it." right now that's what we're all trying to do. >> the news of her death was confirmed in a private message from isil to her family. the white house said its intelligence agencies verified her death though not the cause or time. they also challenged isil's assertion that she was killed in a jordanian air strike. >> the information we have is there is no evidence of civilians in the target area prior to the coalition strike taking place. that certainly would call into question the claims that are made by isil. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry said "isis and isis alone is the reason kayla is gone." unlike the three americans beheaded, she was never put on display. her family requested no publicity for her captivity hoping for a release. isil asked for the exchange of a