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Flee as a typhoon hits the philippines. It is 200 days and counting. Al jazeera staff imprisoned in egypt reach a grim milestone. And im robin adams with all the sports. Including. Its not that we found a reason to bash qatar, well find another reason to bash qatar. Qatar speaks about the criticism of their hosting the 2022 world cup. Tense of thousands of palestinians are fleeing their home, desperate to escape as israel intensified their assault on gaza. They gathered up their belongings as israel dropped leaflets about air strikes. Human rights watch has been watching. One israeli has been killed by a rocket fired from gaza. Palestinian death toll is rising, 208 have been killed. 39 are children, aged 16 or younger. So for on the ninth day of the assault, 1,530 palestinians have been wounded. We talk about the supposed military targets that israel has chosen, but the political targets, so if you take a look behind you you can show what the damage can be. This is what is left of a mans home, one of the 40 struck last night. Its part of an israely campaign. This is striking the home of military official, he was a toplevel political aid. The israelis hit his first house, killed one of his children, wounding him and his wife. Another son was killed in another confrontation. This is a guy who has a long and winding tail. Nevertheless the argument that you hear from people in gaza is that these are political officials. They are not targeted with air strikes. Israel called places like this military command centers. 400 homes have been destroyed. 4,000 like the one away from me destroyed. A new tactic increasingly used. Many people told to get out of their homes have moved down close to where they were, you were talking to some of them a few hours ago. What are the difficulties, if they manage to escape what is potentially a war zone. You are right. This is the notice many of them got dropped in the air saying by 8 oclock be out of your homes. We saw some in a local school. The problem is they were told to get out of their homes. They came downtown to gaza city, and there were ceasefire talks. They wept home, many of them, by the thousands, and told to leave again. They did. Then they came back. Now theres so many people coming here that there isnt enough room. A lot of them are staying outside. Here is a city where a lot of people are doing without water, some for two weeks. You only have eight hours of electricity a day. They cant pump the water up to the top of these homes. Because of the blockade around gaza, and the conflict, the banks are closed and people that have money cant get it out in order to get food. The United Nations and other groups are giving food to 80 of the population of this place of 1. 8 million. They warp this could humanitarian catastrophe. Undoubtedly, you are talking about self hundred, if not thousands of people. We are talking about tens of thousands fleeing their homes. Up to 100,000 are told they should get out. Where are they going to stay . That is the big question. You have asked it. Nobody here answered it. They are coming here. Many will stay at the schools. We saw two hours after the deadline people forced to stay outdoors. Lord knows how many days theyll do that. If this drags out well have people overflowing the outdoor areas, and who knows. Maybe theyll buping up in people bunking up in peoples homes or in the street. The problem is feeding them, giving them the water they need, especially at the end of a long ramadan day. None of these questions have been aped to date answered to date. You talk about the power and the water. In terms of the movement of the people, how are they getting down from the north into gaza city. Are you seeing roads jampacked with vehicles, people on foot carrying belongings. How is it working . We have seen pickup trucks, full of people and their belong oings, none have an illusion that much will be left. We talked to a woman whose home was levelled, she says, by an f16 strike. You are right, some of these people cannot afford the fuel, dont have the vehicles to get here. The leaflet the Australian Military sends out tells them to take a specific route to the nearby town. And the rest of them the lucky one, have come here to where they may have hope of getting a better treatment. Really there isnt enough room for all these people. Thank you very much, indeed, reporting live from gaza city on the exodus of hundreds if not thousands from the north of the gaza strip during the israeli bombardment. You can keep up to date on the development of what is happening in gaza on the website videos. Analysis behind the scenes. Reports by our correspondents and blogs. Thats all at aljazeera. Com. Syrias president Bashar Alassad is being sworn in for another seven years in office of the the inauguration which we see pictures of taking place at the president ial palace north of the capital damascus. [ music ]. The opposition condemned last month, three years into a civil war, calling it a charade, the election several thousands were unable to vote. The victory gives his leadership fresh legitimacy, and the president talking to the invited audience right now. Joining us in the studio, political analyst for the doha institute, arab center for research. This is a president who possibility a year ago could not have imagined he would be in a strong pos right now, no position right now, no matter what people say about the legitimacy of the vote. Is that right. His speech today was like a declaration of victory. He was telling everyone here i am, im still here. I survived what has happened over the past three years. You have failed to bring me down, ill serve as the president for the next seven years. I have a popular mandate. The election gives me legitimacy, and that was the main message in his speech. Is there any way he could find ims upseated from himself unseated from power. Its a rarer possibility. Today we know that most of the regional and International Players are getting less interested in especially im talking about the United States. Indeed, russia and iran, of course, are supporting the regime. The United States is becoming interested in having a desize ivictory by the opposition of the regime. President obama was clear when he said there should be no illusion that this fragmented opposition in a way would be would remove the regime of Bashar Alassad. And Bashar Alassad will say to the people, if he hasnt said so in his address this war shouldnt go on for this hang, i can offer you some stability, even if its more of what you had before. They are wary of the conflict. Most syrians would like the conflict to end. Theyd like to go back to stability. The president was trying to say that this is the end of the geneva process, therell be no talk about a Transitional Government formed from both the opposition and the regime as the geneva one declaration of june 30th, 2012, says. I think hes going to propose Something Like a unity government formed from, perhaps, what we call loyal potential in the country, in order to say that here is my plan to restore peace and order and security to the country. Thank you very much, indeed. We are looking at pictures out of damascus from the president ial palace in syria. The president Bashar Alassad now being sworn in, already sworn in for a third term as president. Worth perhaps listening to a few of his word before we move on. Translation we see in iraq and lebanon, and in syria and all the nations that this false arab spring, and its the credibility of what we warned about. We should soon see that all the arab nations that have supported terrorism will pay the price dearly, and many are backward and very late, and after so late. The battle of Syrian People are fighting to defend his sovereignty, will stand beyond the borders of many peoples who have suffered sooner or later this terrorism. President Bashar Alassad talking at this moment in the syrian capital damascus. Putting forward his vision three years into the countrys civil war, having been elected. Many said the election was fraudulent, a chaar ard, but having been elected for a third 7year term. Now, there are to be vigils in the next few hours for the three al jazeera journalists you saw on your screen who have spent 200 days in an egyptian prison. They have been sentenced for allegedly helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. Charges they and al jazeera rejected. Peter greste and Mohamed Fadel fahmy from given seven years. Baher mohamed was given seven and three added on because he had in his possession a spent bullet casing which he picked up at a protest. Al jazeera continues to demand the journalists be freed. Well, on this 200th day thousands called for their release on social media. Here is a tweet from anthea 2 200 wasted days. We need them back. This is something of a command . And the uks channel 4 team in gaza, Jonathan Miller says the activist group has been campaigning for the release of our producer Mohamed Fadel fahmy, an egyptian and canadian citizen and pulled together 47,000 citizens calling on the canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper to take urgent action. The executive director of the International Press institute joins us from vienna. You would expect us here to be partisan to call for their release. Why should the outside world be concerned . Well, if you silence the voce of a journalist, you silence a community. That is really not part of democracy. Thats not part of engaging the community in the political process. That is why its important. That is why you have a lot of citizens members of civil society, regular citizens joining in the International Solidarity among media, to call for the release of the journalists. And yet there are many hundreds of thousands of people imprisoned for what they describe as their conscience. That is what happened to our three. They dont get the headlines, do they . No, they dont. Unfortunately, not enough. There are a lot of people, as you mentioned, who are in gaol on a number of trumped up charges, or because theyve participated in a rally that is deemed antigovernment. And yet, you know, we focus at the weres institute on the meed press institute on the media, because we think the media holds a special pleas in society. We are aware, and add our voice behind those that call for people who are arrested because of their freedom of expression, what they expressed. We recognise that. And i am sure that there are a lot of people saying, you know, there are three journalists and they are in gaol around the world. Of course, we are encouraging all the people in the world, when they talk about freeing the al jazeera journalist to not forget all of the journalists in gaol in ethiopia and vietnam and the other major countries. 200 days is a long time. It is a very, very long time. Here we follow every twist and turn in this story. We know what is being said and rumoured. From your point of view, just give people out there an idea of what sort of noises are coming from the egyptian authorities about the possibility of their release. Yes, you know, we were encouraged maybe a little by what the president the egyptian president said recently, but, you know, of course, our comment has been lets pardon them, pardon them so they can be released. We understand from some of our colleagues that the appeals process might need to be exhausted before a pardon will be considered. Then, of course, we have heard from our media colleagues in australia, that the egyptian ambassador in australia had said that it is unlikely that they the journalists can expect a pardon. So we are not sure what to believe. This is why we think its important not just today, but every day to keep up the noise about the imprisoned journalist and to send out tweets and facebook postings et cetera asking for the release of these journalists, and bringing it to the attention of the public at large. I liked the tweet you read that said let my people go. Exactly. Let our people go. Dont forget fro hashtag free aj staff. We will not forget. Lets hope everyone remembers. Thats the three al jazeera journalist, 200 days in prison. More to come the worlds top five emerging economies agree to create a new bank. And why many are trying to escape honduras and start a new life in the United States. A man leading germany to a series of titles. Details coming up. China said it ended Drilling Operations near the parasol islands. They have been the scene of a number of clashes between the chinese and vietnam he is ships. Les go to rob mcbride. I should add that china ended it, having found gas and oil. Thats right. It says that its exploratory rig will be there for two months. Its two months. Its withdrawing its rig. It said it has found traces of oil and gas. What needs to be done is assess whether it will lead to deposits to make them viable. If they are economically viable. The next question is will china make the decision to place permanent rigs down there to create a new oil field in the disputed aparts. That would take the whole dispute to a new level. These are waters that vietnam claims it has seoul economic interest. If there are deposits, vietnam should exploit them. Its part of the process of making a permanent presence by china in the parasol islands. Last month they announced they were setting up a school for children of soldiers, and workme based on the island. And this group of islands has been turned into an effective Administrative Center for more remote groups of islands throughout the whole South China Sea. Help us with where the islands are in relation to china and vietnam. They are not very close to china itself. They fall pretty much equal distance between china and vietnam. They are pretty remote. They have been fought over for decades between the two countries, there was a bloody encounter in 1974, 40 years ago, when china asserted its control offer the islands and occupied them. Both vietnam and china claimed them for hundreds of years, vietnam saying its been demrating the islands adminize traiting them for hun dreads of years. As in all of these disputes, possession is nine tenths of the law and china is very much in possession. It seems difficult, hard to see a scenario when china would agree to withdraw from them. Theres oil, gas. China wants them, vietnam wants them, we have seen ugly scenes. Give us a sense of the confrontation that there is between the two countries over the islands. It has been very tough for vietnam, for various historical reasons. Vietnam is a country in southeast asia, finding itself with few friends. One of the biggest is bigger neighbour china, upon which it depends for trade. Vietnam has been exposed. It hasnt had an alliance with the United States to fall back on, which the philippines and jaban has. Theyve been isolated. They have taken their cause to the international media, they have invited foreign journal lifts like ourselves, to be embedded. They are in a weak position. Rather like a number of other countries, neighbours of the china, finding themselves the weaker partner in their disputes with and assertive china and their disputes throughout the South China Sea and east china sea. At least 10 have decide as a power of the typhoon moves across the philippines. Warnings of surges and floods has brought hundreds of thousands trying to find safe ground. The typhoon battered the area for a few hours. In that time it caused damage. Drng winds blue down the lines, leaving a third of the ski without power. Several areas have been flooded and roads closed. The government says it is working overtime to get life back to normal. Looep up operations is cleanup operations is number one. Restoration of facilities is a priority. Over 50,000 people have been told to evacuate homes and businesses. Many are stranded. Some people say the government could have been better prepared and should have learnt its lessons a long time ago. This is the biggest storm to hit the country since the typhoon last year. The government said it is improving the did asker prepare Disaster Preparedness programme. This is one of hundreds living in disaster zones. They are the most vulnerable in the philippines. This man says hes been through this many times before, so he braces for the worst. What else can we do, when a typhoon hits, we suffer, endure. When its over, we fix our homes. Its all right like that. People say help from the government is too slow in coming. So they rebuild on their own. Doing the best they can, with what little they have. As they were talking there, our meteorologist talking about the storm surge, rising waters. Is it as bad there as it was where the pictures were taken, or what . Its calming down. The worst is over. If we look at the satellite we see where its going next. You can see the storm working across the area. And its covering a huge area, and doesnt have a welldephotocopied eye. It gives you an idea that it was disruptive. The sea is the Energy Source. Once it goes across land it doesnt lose its strength. Having said that, it has not completely lost its strength. Sustained wind are 165 canadiens, making the the equif 165 k hr. What will happen now is it will run its way across the seas. This is the Energy Source so it can gain strength. Theres strong wened, stopping it gaping too much strength. It will strengthen, but only a fraction, and run towards land. Because it covers a huge area, when it gets near land well see it has for example. It will ease off again. By the time it makes land fall in southern china, it will have winds about the same as at the moment. The equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. Thank you very much indeed. A u. S. Missile strike in pakistan killed 18 suspected taliban fighters. It struck a down in north waziristan. The pakistani millry is involved in an offensive in that area. Drone strikes beginning in june. We go live to islamabad. The details are what. The details that we are getting is the u. S. Drone strike fired four missiles, one on a house. And the reports are coming from spell gent sources. It must be understood that there is nobody in that area except military sources. They are conducting a largescale operation. The military said its own fixed wing aircraft attacked an area in which 35 fighters fleeing across the border were killed. There is no independent confirmation on the exact number of those killed in the u. S. Drone strike. There were fears that the death toll may rise. Thank you, indeed. News out of pakistan. Over the border word from the United Nations Security Council is that it is strongly condemning a huge car bomb in eastern afghanistan. At least 89 people were killed in the blast. Jennifer glasse reports from the Afghan Capital kabul much. Reporter its one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the u. S. Led invasion in 2001. The market was crowded with shoppers when the massive car bomb exploded. Dead and injured were everywhere. Shops and buildings collapsed. Some of the casualties ended up in kabuls emergency hospital, an 8 hour drive over rough roads. We first went to the provincial capital. They gave us first aid but didnt have the right quip. They told us to go to kabul. We lost family members. Young men. All of them dead in the same day. Reporter in the hospitals intentionive care unit, this 5yearold is fighting for his life. He has serious head injuries, theres not more the doctors can do. The injuries range from shrapnel. One said it threw him. Its made worse by the need to travel so far for treatment. We provide basic care. Anything serious or complex, they need to go elsewhere. Reporter this hospital is struggling to cope. It has 100 beds. All the beds in the hospital are full. This bed is waiting for a parp to come out of surgery. It had to move patient into the louptry room laundry room in case more arrive. Civilian casualties in 2014 are higher than in the same time last year. The latest attack is a reminder of dangers in daily life. So far no one claimed responsibility. Stay with us. We have this coming up, while a canadian revival look at the billionaire behind a record bid for a team. Thats the wrong story, sorry. This is the story about the billionaire bidding for the basketball. We are going to canada to look at a community helped by another wealthy person. Youre watching the al jazeera newshour, im david foster, these are the headlines. The conflict in gaza appears to be escalating as israels bombardment conditions for a ninth day. Palestinians are warned to get out of their homes. The death toll is over 200. Right now the syrian president Bashar Alassad talking at his inauguration saying western and arab states will pay the price for supporting terrorism. He is being sworn in for a third 7year term after last months disputed election. At least 10 died in a typhoon moving across the philippines. Warnings of storm surges and floods forced hundreds of thousands to find safety away from their homes. The crisis in gaza. More on that. Israel says it will intensify attacks. Hamas say it will carry on fighting. The residents say they see no end to the violence. Reporter theres no truce. No truce at all. Hamas want a separate truce. They say we live in a prison. Therell be no truce unless they open the crossings, free the prisoner. They have everything, tanks and aircraft. What do we have fighting. It is a nation that has nothing, a poor nation. What can we do. Translation where can we go . We cant leave the area. Where can we go . Where . We have no means to go. Lets bring in a businessman, philanthropist. Joining me new. I understand that president abbas is in cairo, trying to get a consensus for a ceasefire. We know that you are at another middle east location, you asked us not to say where, trying to drum up support. What are the chances of reaching a deal . I think the chances are hopeful and good. If israel will stop this madness and we sit down and say what is the reason for all this violence and aggression every two years or every year. I think the time is appropriate. People are alert. Its interesting that they have president abbas in cairo talking to a government outlawing the muslim brotherhood, which would have been hand in glove with hamas. Can you get the right deal with that support . Of course. I think president abdul fatah alsisi is serious about stopping the this tsunami, this volcano which i predicted from a long time. What trigger is is they went mad because of what happened with the reconciliation. The palestinians cleaned their home and house. They have one word, president , government, which i think everybody should support, to go ahead and start doing, clearing out to say israel, im putting out. I will help palestinians to build their own state, a palestinian state will live side by side by israel. I hope theyll come to their senses. I tell the israelis, please wake up before the tsunami is bigger and bigger. Would you say the same thing to the people firing rockets out of gaza. The people are doing it out of selfdefence. I bean in gaza and watching rockets from the see and air and ground. Its a big gaol. Everyone living in gaol. I think everybody dont like the violence. I dont like people killed. I feel sorry for mothers from both sides, but the region for this is the israeli occupation. Lets sit and talk about it. That is so much bigger than saying to both sides lets have a ceasefire and then we can talk about it. Are you talking about a peace deal or something that could last until people sit in cairo, both sides, and talk properly . I support the ceasefire, the people sitting down. But we need to say what is after sitting down, what is after the ceasefire, we want a package deal to say we want to end occupation. Palestinians are tired of the occupation. The longest and the ugliest occupation that the world has experience the. Israel, wake up and start doing something. I agree with mr abbas. I think he wants to find a way to sit down. Hes been trying his best. Egypt is trying their best, i think. Secretary kerry tried. I think the israelis must say are we willing to sit down and talk about a 2state solution, which is a palestinian state existing on the border. You are a highly respected and influential member of the palestinian community. You are trying to find ways to put together a temporary ceasefire or peace deal. You condemn the rockets and the missiles fired into gaza by israel. Will you ask the people whether they be members of islamic jihad, hamas. Will you ask them to stop firing from gaza if that might bring peace. Yes, i think if we have a deal, we should sit and say lets have a ceasefire that will lead to a long period of peace, and the palestinian state is born. We have to sit down and say we cannot sit down and say lets have a ceasefire and talk. Lets have a ceasefire and talk. Israel must come to its senses and say yes, the whole thing causing this is occupation. Israel has started this and should stop the madness. I would ask hamas to stop sending rockets when they know, when they know there is a result for this. I have to respect these people who are fighting for the dignity and independence. These people are not terrorists. They are Freedom Fighters like anywhere else, where you want dignity, and your honour and freedom. We want to be free and live with israel, and living as good neighbours. The world has to realise that this cake has to be split. I accept 22 out of 100 . Lets sit and talk. Since oslo we have been trying, the palestinians have been trying, but until now Mahmoud Abbas is a partner, we are looking for an israeli partner. We have to leave it. Find a partner so we can sit. We have to leave it. Thank you, talking to us about efforts to find an end to the fighting in gaza and israel. Each week hundreds of people from honduras flee the violence and poverty and are deported back from the u. S. And mexico. More and more children are being detained as they try to get sank tu airy. Our correspondent in san pedro sulea, a sit with some of the highest crime rates where children as young as six are recruited into gangs. Reporter in a country with the worlds highest murder rate luca only is safe inside the main church. Ever since her husband was killed drug gangs are after her children. They want to recruit the 6yearold and have him train his baby brother. Translation they say we will recruit him and take him. They dont ask the mother for permission. They come and go as they please. Louisa admits the can gave her money and she is forced to do what they say. They are the de facto authority. They know where all her relatives live. The drug gangs have been feared. They are becoming more powerful. Tattoos and initiation are a thing of the past, experts say. The gangs are more business like, willing to invest in youngsters that they indeed to recruit for a life of crime. Translation they said to me we need you to spend the money on your boys. We want them to have everything. We dont want them Walking Around without proper shoes. Theyll form part of your group. Risking the journey to the United States is better than staying here. She allowed us to film her as she visited the graveyard where her husband is buried. She comes here when she needs to make a decision. We saw the cemetery was abandoned. We were told that this is where gangs bury their members, and thats the reason there are no names on the graves. Rival groups vandalize the tombs. Today she knows her husband was a member of an illegal group. She didnt know. More bodies are likely to be buried here too. For lisa, survival is escape. She doesnt want the children to face that kind of future. Five of the worlds most powerful emerging economies struck a deal to create a new Development Bank. China, brazil, russia, india and south africa will play equal amounts to set up an institute that could be worth 100 billion. What will to do. Lets hear. Reporter it was all smiles for the leaders of the world said leading developing economies, brazil, russia, india, china and south africa, the Brics Alliance announcing they agreed to start a new Development Bank. Hours after hammering out the details, they announced the headquarters would be to shangh shanghai. The new bank would have plenty of cash at its disposal. This is an historic decision to create a bank of large scale. It may go to 100 billion. The first stage 50 billion. We are talking about a largescale institution that well be able to operate 500 billion. Brazilian president says the creation of the bank is a sign of the times. The brics countries overcame challenges to reach this point to announce it, and now the hard part implementing it. One official told me it might take as long as two years before the new Development Bank starts lending. But are the brics countries ready for a massive multilateral undertaking . Not everyone is convinced. They are not ready. They are risking a lot and the progress that they have in the last 10 years for a project that will not render the benefits they think theyll have. The bricks leaders disagree and see the bangs as leverage. It will put pressure on i. M. F. And world bank to reform quicker. Unless they reform and take brics nations into account. It will be more dominant. Economic and political dominance, something these nations want more of, opening their wallets to do it. We are on the look out for golfing wildlife in a moment. The tiger looking to add to 14 major titles at the open championships. More than that with robin and the rest of the sport. 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A senior official for the qatar 2022 world cup told al jazeera that they are not concerned by an investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournament. Qatar has been the subject of criticism since being awarded the world cup. Nasr alkatter spoke to willy wellings as part of our interview. How difficult is it for you to deal with public relations, surely a part of qatar having and hosting the world cup is the imaging of qatar. If you criticise, you cant defeat the object in one aspect of this. In the short term yes, in the long term the phase we have been going through since 2010 i think it will be important. Because it brings attention to something that we have said from the beginning. Its changing the perception. Its bridging differences and in my belief it is magnified now. If this was not magnified we wouldnt be able to achieve the goal. People talk about qatar in the world cup in isolation. We talked about an afghan tournament. Brazil talked about a south american tournament. People talked about qatar and forget the aspect of the first world cup in the middle east. The head of the Asian Federation say some of the attacks on qatar are racist. What is your view on that . I pose this question back to the people who have been continuously attacking and open reply undermining our bid and the world cup in the middle east. They have the changes to the laws on migrant workers. Are they making progress. I think the progress is tremendous. People need to keep in kind qatar and the evolution of qatar. In the past 30 years, what qatar achieved is what western countries achieved. Including labour laws. With that youll get imbalances. Some things dont progress, and some things need to catch up. And some laws need to progress and catch up with other developments. This is a natural evolution. We welcome the headlines. We welcome the pressure. It has to be construct if. Its not just we found a reason to bash guitar. If this reason doesnt exist. We find another reason. People are embracing it. What makes the headlines is not the good stuff. A lot of people embrace it. I witnessed it first hand during the world cup. We launched the first openair cool fan zone to broadcast the world cup, and broadcast from around 16 onwards. It was amazing. I cant describe it. The amount of people there. It was a test site for us, open round, cooling technology, and our test was fabulous. 13 degrees on average, less inside than it is outside humidity outside in the range of 85 on average. Inside was about 60 to 65. These are perfect conditions to watch the game. Theres a lot of anticipation for the world cup in qatar. Theres a lot of people that are positive and a lot of people that are excited. In your heart and in your head, did you feel 100 certain that qatar will host the 2022 world cup . Yes. Thanks for speaking to us. Thank you. Lee wellings speaking to qatar 2022 committee member. Watch the interview on aljazeera. Com sport. I cant tell you the man that led the italian juventus left the club by mutual concept. The announcement was made. He played 500 times for juve ept us, returning as manager. He won three serie a titles. Unbeaten and led the club to two wins. Its linked to the italy job. The Los Angeles Clippers sail saga continues with the n b axe saying they cant guarantee that the froon chis will be fr franchise will be sold. Rob reynolds reports on the billionaire businessman behind the bid. Steve balmer is a wealthy man, and wealthy me can buy expensive toys. He really wants to own a basketball team. When you are worth 20 billion, maybe 2 billion doesnt strike him evening absurd. A lot of people think its over the top. Hes a basketball fanatic with an sized parent yip. He loves basketball. Hes very, very excitable about the game. Balmer is a businessman. Many question his decisions as c. E. O. Of microsoft. Ignoring the smartphone revolution, analysts believe hell turn the clippers into a money maker. At 2 billion, its a bargain price for a team like the clippers in a hot league. They are coming off a hot season, due to renegotiate tv rights. It could triple to 60 million. And the Global Growth potential. Theres more basketball players in china than people in the United States. 350 million play basketball in china. It is globally accessible. The clippers have a budding star in blake griffin, and he is 23 years old and set up for big things in the future. Whatever plans may be for a 2 billion team, he may have to put them on hold for a while. Disgraced longtime clippers owner sterling is fighting the sale in court. He is suing the number of ba for banning him from the game. Sterling, who is 80, says hell fight until his dying day. Turning our attention to golf and tiger woods makes a return to major accident as he attempts to win a fourth open championship. The former world number one plays the first major of the year. The tournament which begins on thursday is being played at the Royal Liverpool club where woods won the open in 2006. Commentators say tigers injury problems make the chance of him beating jack nicholass record of 18 major titles unlikely. Thats the sport. Thank you for watching. No problem. Thank you very much. People living up in Canadas Atlantic communities are struggling to survive after the terrible decline of the fishing industry. Lets join daniel lack, who went north to newfoundland. At the edge of canada where the icy atlantic washes the shore, fogo island is home. I grew out of these rocks, i think. Theres nothing that i know that i didnt learn from the rocks somehow. Reporter zeta was born here 55 years ago and left in her teens, and became one of the countrys top business women. While away fishing collapsed. She invests her wealth in the community. The only way to combat unemployment is to build economies based on culture, care and craft. Thats what we tried to do. Reporter culture and craft shape the fogo island inn, a mix of contemporary design and local touches. The sea looms through every window. Mott ifs drawn from the selfreliance of island life is a backdrop. The idea is known as quilts and fab rigs. Cobbs Foundation Helps local makers transfer craft. Ive been developing this message over the period that i have been here on residency. It seemed like oh, this is the perfect home for the message in the quilt. International artists are part of the mix, drawn by the setting. Fully paid for residencies. They work in studios around the island. Taking full advantage from land and sea. Rural communities have cultural and human capital. You cant put that in a bank. The challenge is to create jobs and businesses to support the assetsment to get outsiders to come, appreciate and invest in what is here. Its a patchwork quilt. Its one that will patch. Toronto is a bigger patch. Neither on its own will keep us warm. But what is exciting is the ability to stitch the paps so you have a quilt. She hopes to share her philosophy and ideas with other dying rural areas. For now its all about fogo island. That communities exist at all in a harsh environment like this is determination. Keeping them here, viable, in a fastmoving world will take more than that. Thats it from me, david foster and the newshour team. The violence has continued just a couple of miles from here just a short while ago we heard a large air strike very close by. People here are worried that this already serious situation may escalate. For continuing coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, stay with al Jazeera America your global news leader. A buildup on the border as the civilian death toll rises on both sides. Israel vowing to punish hamas, telling civilians to evacuate now. It happened at the border. They are entitled to due process but will not be welcomed to this country with open arms. Tough talk from the white