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There has been an alshabab ambush here on this section of the road and with the part athletics governing body chooses seb coe as its now president. As it grapples to restore its image in the wake of doping allegations. Children are bearing the brunt of yemens brutal armed conflict. That is a warning from u. N. I. C. E. F. Where 400 air strikes have occurred. Eight children have been killed or injured every day and are used to fight. U. N. I. C. E. F. Documented 377 cases of children recruited by armed forces and groups since march. Plus access to food. Difficult before the war is harder. 1. 8 million children do not have enough to ate. Nearly 10 million need humanitarian substance. 80 of yemens children. Julian is the yemen representative for the United Nations Childrens Fund and joins us live from the capital sanaa. Thank you for being was. The numbers are shocking. Eight children killed or wounded every day in the conflict. Give us an example of how you are finding them being caught up in the fighting. Well, i mean, children are killed in air strikes, street corners across the country, and in some ways its getting worse. Yest yesterday 60 education staff were killed and injured in an area they were working. What were they frying to do . They were trying to get children into exams, children that hadnt been able to complete their school year. They were trying to get children lack into school for the exams. Education staff were working on that, 20 killed, 40 injured. These are the challenges that people who helped children, are facing every day in yemen. How better to go about protecting them, if possible . Well, all parties to the conflict have to respect civilian life. The massacring of people through air strikes, or killing of civilians in shootings, in paris or aden or other parts of the country, its against International Humanitarian law. The parties to the conflict have to Pay Attention to the issues and to respect human life. Its wrong, it has to stop. What is u. N. I. C. E. F. Doing in yemen . Well, we are trying, with many other partners, like the education colleagues killed yesterday to provide services to children across the country. We are trying to put children throughnutrition services. We have been quite successful, and now its gone right back up. Nonetheless, weve been able to provide services. 65,000 children. We are providing water across the country in the major cities across the country, based in sanaa, aden, irrespective of fighting. 1. 9 million will be receiving clean water. We are getting out there. What we are seeing in the fighting is making it so difficult. Are you not disappointed that you are not seeing more International Efforts to end the fighting and respect women and childrens lives in the conflict. Yes, the death are are unnecessary. The vast majority of people in yemen have nothing to do with this. They want to go about and live their lives, educate their children, see them grow up. They dont want there. They are suffering unnecessarily. Its not just direct attacks on people, but the ability to bring in food, fuel, commodities, and the services of life. Yemen imparts 90 of its good, including medicine, and food. Yesterday, the harbour for all the goods of yemen was attacked. The civilian infrastructure used to unload ships, food and fuel was destroyed. If the civilian population doesnt have location to these things, malnutrition will get worse. 80 of children needing aid. And u. N. I. C. E. F. Is short of funds. Why has yemen received so little attention. Sorry . Why is yemen receiving so little attention. U. N. I. C. E. F. Reporting that it hasnt received the funding it needs. Obviously we want to see more, we received 30 million out of a total 180 million. Its not enough. If we are fully funded. It will not cover the needs of the population. We want more attention to the country, to how the conflict is waged. We want to see that people can access market. And civilians should not be penalized in this conflict. U. N. I. C. E. F. Is warning that it will get worse in the future. What does it mean by that. The fighting that we have seen across the country is spreading northwards. We fear well see more fighting in the rest of the country. In the areas where the fighting reduced, theres significant insecurity in places like aden. Only 23 days ago a Health Worker in a hospital was as as nated as he assassinated as me left the hospital. Theres challenges around insecurity. Theres a longterm damage that is done to this country. Health systems, education systems, vaccination systems these are things taking decades to build up. U. N. I. C. E. F. Has been working with local partners to improve these things, and we are seeing it destroyed in front of our eyes. And to bring that back, it will take years, decades, to fix that. Children will bear the brunt of that long after the fighting stomed. Julian joining us there. The good work that u. N. I. C. E. F. Is doing, but the enormous amount of work that needs to be done. Thank you for joining us. Well, the war in yemen is also having an impact on people from other countries, especially somalis. There are around 230,000 of them, registered as refugees for the United Nations in yemen. They have left one war and find themselves stuck in another. Caroline malone reports. This is a somali refugee in yemen, she is staying at a school in the district at the southern port city of aden. Along with others displaced by the fighting. She escaped from the civil war in somali, and finds herself caught up in another conflict. Translation i have been living in aden for 25 years. Its hard to leave it. Now i have children, and life and death is in gods hands. No one escapes death, whether in somali, or here. Some of the People Living here are also displaced yemenis. This man came with his family when their home was damaged. And this mans house was destroyed. They say they are worried about not having a place to say because the authorities want them to leave the school. Every day the authorities remind us about the deadline to leave on august 20th. Where can i go, i have no house. My house was destroyed because of the war. We left because of tragedy of the war, and now we have the tragedy of housing. Reporter the situation is particularly bad for the 230,000 Somali Refugees in yemen. Some are going back to somali, even though theres widespread fighting. I had gone to yemen to start a new life away from the war in somali. Now i found another war. Im back to somali again. Ive been a refugee all my life. Somali already has tens of thousands of displaced people. Many in yemen say they have no choice but to go there, and whether they are stuck in yemen or forced to go back to the country they fled, they have nowhere safe to call home. As we heard in that report by caroline malone. Somali is very insecure. African union peacekeepers are planning an offensive with the somali army with the group. Alshabab. They aim to cut off the route to kenya, where it carried out a string of assaults. In the meantime. They hope to take over the forces. We have this report from the front lines. These are the men somali wants to use in its territory, back from alshabab fighters. They are the latest recruits for the Somali National army, they have been trained in the port city, one of the last remaining strongholds of alshabab. Translation we cannot allow alshabab to continue using this as a hide out. They have been flushed out of most other parts of somali, we shall do the same here. Until the army stops their training, these fighters have the task of defending the government and territory control. We set out with them to their front lines with alshabab. Its a changing zone. Moving in small Group Alshabab fighters are known to conduct attacks almost anywhere. Suddenly we are under attack. There has been an alshabab ambush here in this section. Of the road. Its renowned. Not far from here. And the forces of the state are returning fire. Everyone is accounted for. We move forward to the official we move forward to the official front line. Anywhere behind here is rebel territory. These men cant afford to relax. They know their enemies could hit at any moment. Just a few hundred meters away from the Central Forces is a base. Translation we have a closeworking relationship with the peacekeepers. They support us by treating the sick and wounded. A short distance away from the frontline is a village, its an important base and Tax Collection Centre for alshabab. With the village turned into a battlefield, most have fled. Those that remain behind are terrified. This woman said her homeside cafeteria was destroyed by alshabab members. This is not conventional war. They use any trick to out do it police in thailand say the main suspect in the bombing at a shrine in central bank cock did not act alone. They have appealed for information and are offering a reward for anyone that could hunt him down. 22 died in the blast and a smaller attack on tuesday left people on edge. Kamal hyder reports. Reporter morning rush hour at the boat pier. One of the busy and bustling less than 24 hours after a bomb. No one was hurt but Police Connect it to mondays deadly shrine blast. Im scared. I use the route to commute to work every day. I dont know when it will be my turn. I have no other choice. This is the man thai police are hunting for in connection with the shrine attack. His image has been shown. Police do not think he acted alone. They are offering a 30,000 reword for information leading to his arrest. We can make a look at who they are. For the moment, some of these from the bomb is coming from our country. He adds that the physical effort could reveal signatures of where the bomb was made. At this stage of the investigation they are not ruling anything out. Especially when it comes to the motivation behind the attacks mps. The bombing comes as tourism is it rebounding, and the arrival numbers of the Chinese Market doubled in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year. The United Nations Tour Organization says it was direct attacks on tiaz and the nations economy that connected to tourism. 10,000 Additional Forces were used. Translation at first i was shocked to hear about the blast. After assessing the situation, i think it may be safer. As friends and relatives look at the list, thailands government admits that it will have to work harder to prevent more attacks wayne hay joins us live from bangkok. Some costs in this investigation what are you hearing from there . Well, the police have been fairly active in terms of making statement. They have released an artists impression, a sketch of a man who they believe is the man caught on that Security Camera footage, the man they believe is the bomber. They have also said that he did not act alone. That he is part of a network, a group that was working with them. That it simply would not be possible for one person to plan and carry out a largescale attack. The police chief go as far as to say that he believes those people working with that man caught on the Security Camera footage are taiz. How he came to that conning clugs, we dont know conclusion, we dont know whether its based on the security footage, or whether theyve received other information to enable them to release that picture. You are next to the shrine that was the target of the bomb blast two days ago. What is the mood and security presence like there now . Well as scott mentioned there has been an increase in security around bangkok. Its not that visible. You dont see police on the secret. Certainly no soldiers. The mood is mixed. You meet tourists and locals determined to go about their business, continuing with their holidays, continuing to come to places like this, where they come every day to pay respects, to offer a prayer. I have met others that are afraid, scared, and as night falls that concern grows, as far as tourively goes, which again is important to the economy, its only in the weeks, the months ahead where we may see a drop off in numbers, tourist bypassing bangkok, going to the many resort locations around the country. This is a resilient country, there has been political upheavals, natural disasters and bounces back quickly. Thank you very much, wayne hay plenty more still to come on this Al Jazeera Newshour this greek island proving to be a false hope, rather than the Promised Land for hundreds of refugees arriving every day. And well tell you about a book with a difference, one that is going down smoothly. Plus uniteds coach wants to keep the 40 million signings. Details with jo in sport south korea is beginning work to raise the ser wol. 300 people were killed, most students. Its a key from the relatives who want to find missing bodies. Harry fawcett has more from seoul. Reporter for the family members, many maintain the protest in central seoul. Its been a long time to wait. Theres a debate about whether to raise the sewol at all. Debate about the pracs kalties of all this. That was resolved in april, with that was resolved in april with a president ial decision. In excess of 70 million. It will be incredibly difficult and intricate. First therell be a period, and divers will go down to prevent the missing people that may be on board the ship. Then theyll try to inflate portions of the stick. Insert beans underneath it. And a rig to support those that take it to shore before raising it on a floating dock. It will be difficult and costly operation. People here, we spoke to a mother of a 17yearold boy, and she says theyll maintain the vigil until the end to make sure the ship is raised, and as much as can be is found out about the circumstances surrounding the disaster. Thousands of people have been left behind. Jonah hull reports on the greece small island struggling to cope. Reporter if this is a Promised Land, for many its a false one. Every day they come, sometimes in their hundreds. Refugees, and those seeking work. From the placid waters to turkey, the turkish town in the distance. Every day they wait for paperwork that allows them to stay or move on to other parts of europe. Iraqis is here, iranis is here. Africas is here. But there is a little procedure. This day is a third day. Others have been waiting longer. Much longer. How much days. 23 days. Reporter 23 days. And nobody has helped you in that time. They want to go to germany. What do you think youll find in germany . I think my future is there. We have survival kit. Some hygiene kit. Baby kit. Do you feel the local authorities are in control. Basically they are tired. You do something that is 100 people, and its something that have 1,000 people. In other words no no. Its tough. Thats for sure, its tough. Reporter things have been worst. In recent days, a governmentchartered ferry has been moored, providing sanitation and documentation to 2,500 people. They are exclusively experienced on board who have fled the civil war. The ferrys presence eased the crisis, but for other nationalities that are not kept on board, like these People Living rough, little has changed. A group of africans, from cameroon, nigeria and congo say they are being discriminated against. We are angry, and we are tired, made a lot of complaint. Lodged a complaint to almost everyone. Most of them laugh at our complaints, and that is horrible. You think it is because you are africans. They might say. But what i see, they give you all the attention and complaint. You, yourself, should know that we are africans. Reporter on the greek shore they may be safe from the hardships they fled. But here, floating on a holiday they are far from secure the German Parliament backed the greek bailout plan. German chancellor Angela Merkel had to fight to keep her party in line. 65 broke ranks. Athens has to make a 3. 2 billion payment to the European Central bank tomorrow. Lets bring you the weather, crossing to rob for that. More flooding in kern china. Yes, the west. Sichuan is the main province affected. The satellite shows it well. If you look at the white tops here, it doesnt really move. Anywhere from here up to uby. Theres the potential for flooding. If you get 68 millimetres in 30 hours, where we had five times as much as that. This is the situation we end up with. This is sichuan, the river swells, and the biggest problem is what they bring, mud or rock slides. That bus will go nowhere probably ever again. This is a regular thing based by the chinese. In the next 24 hours, hosts of Mainland China will see things dry up. What is coming this is a pair of cyclones, one that is the most important is this one here. They both have unusually good eye, a wall of developed cloud. This one here, we have been tracking it for a couple of days, and the conditions the same time as this time yesterday, a category 3 storm. The course takes it to bring rain, and probably taiwan in the next 23 days. Well keep you up to date thank you very much indeed. For the first time in a decade the u. S. Is calling in the army to fight fires, theres blazes from california all the way to alaska. Tom ackerman reports. Reporter across the west firefighters are nearing the limit of resources. To put out hundreds of fires like these in eastern oregon. Crews are reinforced with support from 200 mobilized National Guard groups. In Central Washington evacuations forced hundreds from their home. Its coming down in pure flames, its like a flame throer. Weve lived here 33 years. Its hard to see this. At the peak of the apple harvest, one of the largest plants was distrid. High winds that fanned the claims continue to pose an eliated risk why california is accustomed to the surveyor fighters. The firefighters can no longer depend on moisture from under cuts and trees. Even alaska with 200 fires raging has not been spared. More than 20,000km of tundra has been scorched. Making it the third worst on record for the state. Know covers more. Relief may come from the potion. A winter forecast for one of the strongest el ninos would mean racing the sea temperatures. 750 million around the world do not have access to clean and safe Drinking Water. Researchers in the u. S. Are trying to change that with an innovative book, gabriel elizonda reports from new york. Reporter its a book like water not one to read, but to save lives. Its called the drinkable book, the pages made from technologically advanced piper, silver nanoparticles that kill diseases such assist cholera, ecoli and hepatitis. Imagine it being like coffee filters, pages of the book. Here is how it works. Each piece of paper or filter is torn and slid into a speciall designed filter box. The water can be poured through. Safe Drinking Water comes out. Reporter at the end of the day, the important thing, and the hero is the Technology Behind it. It was invented over several years by a chemist at carnegie university. We used filter papers in a few different country and evaluated Water Quality before and after filtration in south africa, ghana and bangladesh, with what i reported on the filters also tested in haiti and kenya. The results were that 99. 9 of the bacteria were killed by the papers, which is basically as good as anything. Reporter more than 500 Million People dont have access to clean water. More than 800,000 died from Drinking Water each year, by Drinking Water that is un saf according to a report. This is often produced by backpackers, but one costs 38. Its far too expensive for most poor people in underdevelopment countries to afford. Even ceramic filters are made for poor communities in need, and cost the same. That is where this came in. The book can be produced for less than 5 each filter costs 0. 10 and can filter 100 litres of water. It has not gone into mass product. They have teamed with others to fund raise to get it off the grounds. Few think a drinkable book could solve the problems. Its one innovative step of more likely to be needed to give people clean water lots more coming up here on al jazeera. Russias president gets out of his business suit to go underwater. We tell you what is going on beneath the surface of his latest publicity stunt. Plus. Can you guess which is the first airport to be powered by solar energy. Ill report from there and why these 11yearold girls have been accused of match fixing. Details coming up in hello, again, you are watching the Al Jazeera Newshour. These are the top stories 800 children are killed or injured every day in yemen. The children are bearing the brunt of the countrys war pice say those involved in the bombing in thailand did not act alone. They are offering a reword for anyone that can hunt them down south korea is beginning work to raise a disabled ferry, capsizing in april. Most teenage students. The recovery expected to cost 70 million i. S. I. L. Have killed a renowned archeologist in the ancient syrian city. The antiquity chief says his body was hanging in the square. The 82yearold was held by the group after capturing palmyra in may a former director at the department of antiquities, museums in syria joins us. Thank you for being with us. You hue hall add asaad, tell us about him, who he was as a man, and his work. Well, he was very Much Associated with palmyra archeology. He was mr palmyra, working there from the early days back in the 50s, until he retired in 2003. And even after he retired he was involved in engaged in everything to do with palmyra, and its archeology and heritage. And, you know, you couldnt do anything in palmyra all these years without actually having him, who is extremely, you know, helpful, and thought of well by anyone that had any contact with him. When were you last in contact with him . It was years ago. I was the director of science and conservation labs there. What a shame, we have lost our guest from prague. We lost the signal to him. He was telling us about the archeologist in palmyra, who recently was beheaded by i. S. I. L. Fighters. At least 10 kurdish fighters have been killed in a suicide attack. It happened in the northeastern syrian city of kamashili. A bomber in a car targeted the Kurdish Security headquarters there we are going to go back to our former guest. We managed to get him back on the line from prague. You were talking there about hall add, you know him from the past, the man he was known, saying he was mr palmyra. Why did he decide to stay in syria, even as i. S. I. L. Came and took over the palmyra area . I dont know. I mean i can only guess. My instincts will tell me, and just from what i know of him, he has always been closely connected to the city. He could have escaped with when they evacuated the museum contents. Which he was very much involved with, he chose to stay behind. As a result, it was taken by d. A. E. S. H. , i. S. I. S. , and clearly executed, unfortunately on tuesday. I think he just felt that he was so much involved in part of the city and part of the culture and the history of the archeology, that he would live and die there if need be, and paid the ultimate price. Why did he pay the ultimate price, what risk did he pose to i. S. I. L. On a personal level, nothing, it was pure vengeance. As far as i understand from those i spoke to earlier today, they basically held him responsible for the evacuation of the you know the museum contents. The charge was that he was involved with smuggling antiquities which was, in this case, essentially that he had hoped to evacuate the museum contents, which saved the collections. What risks do you think there is to other archeologists who may have remained in palmyra. Well, any archeologist that lives in a territories undies is at risk. We demo of several archeologists threatened or imprisoned over the last year and a half, two years, because they you know, i. S. I. S. Assumes that they have additional knowledge or secret information about where a possible, you know, antiquities might be buried or where in the case of museum condents would be stashed. Theyd seek them out, forcing them to divulge the situation. I know at least one individual in raqqa was is essentially harass the by i. S. I. S. Fighters for some time to try to get that information from him. So i think any archeologist living under i. S. I. S. Control is at some point going to be in danger as and when i. S. I. S. Wants information from them regarding where such oshing logical material is hidden. Good to speak to you. Thank you for joining us, in what is unfortunately a sad story lets move to iraq, where there has been more demonstrations in the southern Oil Producing city of basra. Protests have been ongoing across the country as people are fed up with corruption and government mismanagement. They are angry at the lack of basic services, and electricity, Prime Minister Haider Alabadi visited to make sure that at the oil field it would not affect production a senior democratic senator in the u. S. Promised to fight the iran nuclear deal, despite two other democratic senators, jack reed and shelledion decided to back president obama. That has not swayed robert menendez. No, well i have many specific concerns about the agreement. My over arching concern is it requires no dismantling of Irans Nuclear infrastructure, and moth balls it for 10 years. Not one sent finaling will be destroyed under the agreement. From new york, Kristen Saloomey explains why menendez is not backing the agreement. Bob menendez is the second democrat to come out against the deal. Hes a senior democrat, a statement that the Obama Administration didnt want to hear. He says that he is concerned the deal does not do anything to dismantle Irans Nuclear ambitions, and thinks contrary with the president , what he is saying, that its not an all or nothing deal, and called on congress to regret the agreement, but not in its entirety, to encourage the president to go back to the negotiating table. The president got a vote of support on tuesday from another area, and that is a group of nonproliferation arms control experts. People like hans, the former head of the i. A. E. A. National Nuclear Watchdog agency, and that says this is a good deal. They support it. Historically its tougher than the other deals at the united states. Congress had until midseptember to rejected the nuclear agreement, even with mendezs announcement. It looks like the president has enough support malaysias currency is one of the worst boxing from the asia pacific reason. In the past year theyve lost a fifth. A look at how its affecting some businesses. The wheel of industry in motion. This factory employs 100 staff, and has a turn over in excess of 3. 5 million. Some parts keeping military moving, aborting dollars from abroad. They are 20 more expensive, protecting it. They are rethinking expansion plans. Maybe we will expand too fast. Suspend for this year is slow. Cutting costs from home and abroad. Economists are evaluating the impact. Im concerned about local investors, malaysian, who when they lose confident, theyll take out the capital from here. Theres a capital flight. It will have drastic consequences. The malaysian economy relies on it to develop the country. The price of a barrel is at an alltime low. It has lost 12 of its value in the last 12 months. The governor, the central bank of malaysia rules against the currency and other controls. I want to emphasise we do not expect the currency. The fact we have a Flexible Exchange rate helps the country to adopt. The Exchange Rate doesnt adjust. Demand has to. Reporter the recent addition of a goods and services attacks is worrying malaysians how to rise. I dont get to see it a lot. It is important. We need to spend more and save less. Reporter it may look bleak, but analysts say the currencys woe assist beyond control. Pt recent valuation of the chinese currency, a u. S. Interest rate rise of 700 million, involving the malaysian Prime Minister is putting pressure on the currency itself. Economies are saying that is the time to worry, but not panic. Lets see how the government reacts. Hindus in india covered prayers to ser pent gods to mark the serpent festival. It is celebrated every year during the hindu monsoon months. They believe feeding it rids people of their problems. Next on this newshour. In sport, the newly elected president of International Athletics spells out his plans to clean up the sport. Protestors are gathering. Theres an air of tension right now. The crowd chanting for democracy. This is another significant development. We have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live. The lifeline of the american west. What does this river mean to you . The river, to me, means homeland. In danger of running dry. Therell come a time when we fight over every last drop of water in the river. Wheres the water going . I worry about the future generations what are they going to have . Faultlines investigates the shrinking colorado river. No group of people can have their american dream. We have to pay that price. Now the worlds first ever fully solar power airport has been launched in india. The solar panels produce so much electricity they feed in the national grid. Reporter this airport is known for its templelike architecture and being the fourthlargest airport. Ask anyone about its latest environmental breakthrough using solar energy, and this is the reaction youll get. They are laughing. Youre serious. Wow. Im very surprised. Im very happy for the indian people. Reporter even the man behind the idea was unaware what he was going was unique. We thought why got go for the green power. It worked out. We contime about 38,000. So why not we produce almost equal to that. The project took six months to set up. Costing 10 million. The airport expect to recruit all costs within five years. Next to the airport theres more than 46,000 solar panels. The 12 megawatt plant provides around 50,000 units a day to cover all the electricity needs. This is to practice in almost all places. Reporter the solar panels are expected to last 25 years. That is the equivalent of planting 3 million trees. This falls in line with targets to increase the use of solar power by five times by 2022. India is reliant on coal, and is the thirdlargest polluter. Over the next decade the government is planning to invest over 100 billion. The government is hailing this as a model for the rest of the country and directed other airports to start incorporating solar energy into daily operations a different kind of transport. Russias Vladimir Putin is visiting crimea. He was there to promote tourism, and is grabbing a chance to live up to action man reputation. Rory challands reports. Russians are used to this sort of thing now. The almost annual excuse for their president to get out of his business suit and prove himself a man of action. On tuesday he boarded a submersible and dived to examine ship wrecks from the byzantine era. 1,000 years ago, and a time of particularly vigorous trade between the eastern and western world. Translation there are so many interesting things down here, objects, ancient pottery on the seabed. The view of the ship bed is clear. Experts say theres a lot of work to do. Reporter this was a carefully stagemanaged kremlin event meant to school russians history and the countrys counter priorities. Vladimir putin described recently annexed crimea of sacred importance. It would appear that vladimir the great was baptised. Crimea was a western out post of the the great silk road, the ancient Trading Network stretching to china. Here we are at a center, a crossroads of trade routes, a Meeting Point of europe and asia for many centuries, and it is a geopolitical focus these days too. The architecture at the palace speaks at a time when much of eurasia was under the tatar yoke. The argument about whether the russian sole was european or eastern or oriental is as old as the country itself. At places like this, you can get a reminder of influences, that there was a time where what is modern day russia was part of a bigger mongol empire with its capital in beijing of course, Vladimir Putin doesnt want to rewind the clock hundreds of years, but russia is pivoting eastward, integrating space with china, signing out to beijings silk road belt project. A transeurasian trade. And investment network. It may look like a dip in a submersible. Under the surface, its more. Lets get the sport now. Here is jo. Thank you. Britains double olympic champion un arer Sebastian Coe has been elected president of the International Athletic association. It follows claims that it had turned a blind eye to blood copying. Adrian brown reports from beijing. Reporter it was a secret vote for a public role. An election to choose president for a sport in crisis. And the front runner triumphed, weary about the relieved. This, for me, is the pinnacle. Its my sport, my passion, the thing that i always wanted to do. Reporter the double olympic champion faced one contender, former ukranian pole vaulter sergey booub dead. Coe won by 21 votes. The final stages of election were overshadowed by the world body. Allegations that it failed to act on evidence of widespread blood doping between 2001 and 2012. Coe has been a president since 2007. Theres a zero tolerance to the abuse of doping in my sport. And i will maintain that to the very highest level of vigilance. And that is something that is clearly over the next week or two, i will want to sit and discuss with my colleagues. Supporters insist that he can support the image of International Track and field. Here, theres many challenges. Some are talking about it being in crisis, and he has been the man to turn it around. Reporter the outgoing president recently turned 82. And has been in the job 16 years. Hes defended the bodys handling of doping. Sebastian coe realises they have been under siege. On the eve of the World Championships, theyve pledged to clean up world athletics. To do that they need money and time. Many top figures in International Athletics and sport voiced support for seb coes election, particularly in britain, where he is a revered figure. Lee, not many voices critical of this decision. What has coe pledged to do to tackle doping . Well, coe has a lot of respect in britain and around the globe where achievements started on the track. He was in tight spots, and came out of them and delivered an olympics in london, which was a wonderful event. You can ask questions about the legacy. It was a difficult thing for him to deliver. This is not a cliche to say its his toughest challenge. Athletics absolutely in crisis. No one is denying that. What has happened with coe is hes had an eye on the election, making sure he got in. If thats not sinning out the right sending out the right message to the public. When he says theres a declaration of war, thats not what we want to hear, we want to hear them sorting out the crisis. He says zero tolerance, we need evidence of that. It will be difficult to hear on from the allegations of ard and sunday times, a third of athletes over a decade were doping. We go into World Championships in beijing, how can the public believe what they are seeing. Seb cois starting to talk tough u but his action, hell have to deliver going into the next World Championships in london, and deliver more quickly than that. And the World Championships starting on saturday in beijing will be his first test of his rein. Are any additional steps taken for doping . Not so much additional as less tests are being taken. I sort of understand this in a way. Theres only so much funny, sometimes we can get caught up in the fact that dopers are caught out by testing. The most sophisticated equipment, the best tests of the championship, its intelligence, people passing on what they know. They are so sophisticated, that that is why in the World Championships, a third of the athletes will get blood testing. They are trying to catch them, they dont want it to just happen at the World Championships. Thats not reassuring the public, how can they trust what they watch in beijing, the sprint races. So many revelations are coming out. The timing of finding out that only a third of the athletes are getting blood tests is not ideal. Theyll get urine tests. It will take longer than championships. The big changer is not a declaration of war from the media or people criticizing the support, its apathy, people saying i dont want to watch any more. Lee wellings talking to us from london the World Antidoping Agency says a ban on countries that regularly dope should be considered. Ban would be a deterrent. A series in allegations of doping. That would have to be adopted by organizations like the i. A. A. F. Let me make it clear that the World Antidoping Agency does not have the power to do that. All we can do under the world anti doping code is to declare stakeholders noncompliant. Its up to the stake elders, whether its government or sports violations to take whatever anxious they want to do. I do not have powers to do that. The debate must be held. Manchester united coach lowy van gaal says he wanted to kiss the team after they scored a 31 win over club bruj. The belgians with a shock lead. The 40 Million Player scored twice. They provided an assist in the second half. As they won 31. But i want to kiss him. Tonight, because where you score two goals and assist also, then in the world you are the hero. Its been a year for golfs number one, jordan spieth, won the masters, u. S. Open and top four finishes in the other two majors. Tuesday he threw out the first pitch for the seattle marinerstexas rangers, and had a bet who could do it better with open champion zach johnson, throwing the pitch at chicago cubs. Jordan spieths efforts was not bag, but johnson managed 95 Miles Per Hour in his. A cost ball team made up of 11 and 12yearold girls was accused of match fixing at the Little League series. They advance pd to the next round and benched players, sending their rivals to iowa, out of the competition. The accusation is that they lost deliberately, and Little League organizers forced them to a tiebreaker with iowa that they lost, eliminating them from the tournament that is the sport for now thank you very much indeed. Do stay with us here on al jazeera. If you can, ill be back with another full half hour bulletin of news straight eight children are killed or injured in yemen every day, according to a new report from u. N. I. C. E. F. Hello there, welcome to al jazeera live from doha. Im kyle williams. Also ahead. Thai police say the bangkok bomber did not act alone, and two other men in c c. T. V. Footage have been identified as suspects we we join local forces on the front line against rebel in southern somali. There has been an alshabab ambush here on this section of the road