Transcripts For ALJAZAM News 20141211

Of attacks by alshabab. And infections resist important to antibiotics could kill more people than cancer by 2050. Were hearing that at least one person has been killed in a blast at a French School in kabul. A suicide bomber blew himself up in an auditorium. Jennifer glasse joining us from kabul with the latest on that blast, jennifer, and how it happened. Reporter doreen, it happened this evening at a play in the French High School in the heart of kabul. The play ironically was called heart beat. The moment after the explosion. And the bomber was in the audience. He was a teenager the police tell us. And there were more than a hundred people in the theater. It was a mixed audience, men and women. Some people in the audience thought it was part of the show, and then there was panic as they tried to exit the theater. One person has been killed in that attack, 11 at least 11 injured. One of them seriously. A serious attack in the heart of kabul. It comes on the heels of another attack this morning where a suicide bomber killed six soldiers and wounded 14. What message is are they wanting to send here, jennifer, whoever is behind this attack, by attacking a French School . Reporter i think its really designed to create unrest in the city, a feeling of incurty. Todays two attacks were the first attacks here in kabul in 11 days, and we saw a series of attacks in the heart of the afghan capitol. Since then security has been beefed up. Both the police and the Intelligence Services trying to make the capitol as safe as possible. This mornings attack was claimed by the taliban. No one has claimed responsibility for this evenings attack. This is a very secure facility. They search ever who comes in. This was an inviteonly event. So there is an actual guest list. So who was this suicide bomber, and how was he able to get in. And it is a very social night here in the afghan capitol, but lots of check points as well. Jennifer thank you very much. A Senior Palestinian official has told al jazeera that they are planning to end cooperation with israel over security. Thousands of palestinians have attended the funeral of a minister who died after a confrontation on wednesday. Palestinians and doctors have disagreed over what exactly happened. A spokesperson talked to us and told us what happened after the killing. Number one we will submit the Security Council resolution, our draft specifying [ inaudible ] the 1967 line with israels capitol. And president abbas will sign the [ inaudible ] to the International Criminal court. And we have asked the higher acting parties to convene this month to make sure the ability of the [ inaudible ] on the West Bank Gaza and [ inaudible ] occupied palestinian territories. Number four president abbas sent a letter to secretary general of the u. N. Urging protection. And number 5 [ inaudible ] to decline relations request israel. Meaning cessation with Security Cooperation and asking the israeli powers to resume its full responsibilities, and number six [ inaudible ] thats how we face such atrocities, and we have decided to [ inaudible ] against settlement and occupation. The French Senate has voted to recognize the palestinian state. The lower house of parliament passed a similar measure next week. They say its too early to recognize a palestinian state. Iraqi Security Forces say they have launched an offensive against isil fighters near the anbar province. The military operation is still going on. And hundreds of thousands of see shia muslims are on the move to visit an annual ceremony. They are taking part in rituals which will peak on saturday. The number of visitors is expected to rise this year, as iraq has eased visa restrictions. Fierce fighting is underway between syrian troops and opposition fighters in the eastern city of aleppo. Kim vinnell reports. Reporter the sound of gunfire is relentless in aleppo. In the northeast neighborhood bed sheets have become cover and streets no longer safe to walk. Now the flag of the Free Syrian Army flies, and opposition fighters say they can walk around freely. Translator residents are still standing, the majority are supporting the revolutionary fighters. We are advancing unlike the regimes forces. Reporter but the f fer ferocity tells a different story. Controlling main roads would mean a chance to besiege the other side. Territory in the city remains divided. For those living among the rubble, this is already a war of attrition. Translator the regime propagated on many occasions that they had captured the main square. These are false reports. We are holding our ground. But Living Conditions are harsh. It is really hard. Reporter the u. S. Continues to launch air strikes on isil fighters in the region, but in doing that, the socall moderate opposition fighters it supports are feeling the squeeze. Some analysts believe syrian troops could well fill the vacuum. Saudi arabia has arrested three people over an attack last month. All three men have ties to the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. The World Health Organization may have discovered an unreported ebola outbreak. In 11 days the team buried 87 bodies, and they fear the ebola data underrepresents the situation in sierra leone. Sierra leone recently overtook liberia as the country hit hardest by that disease. Trials for an ebola vaccine have been temporarily halted. The trials are expected to resume in early january. Meanwhile the w. H. O. Has just concluded a meeting on how to strengthen Healthcare Systems in the countries battling ebola in west africa. Now is how we can all Work Together to stop this epidemic, and then before we all em battle the long and tedious journey of rebuilding a Resilient Health system. Because if you look at the conceptual framework proposed by the w. H. O. For building a Strong Health system, if you look at it clearly, it is a wonderful model, but it works best under normal circumstances. But these are not normal circumstances, so now is we need to think outside of the box, and come up with those lowhanging fruits that we can quickly put in place, get rid of this epidemic, and then regroup, and then match the Health Systems properly. Kenyan legislators are debating whether to tighten security laws. The president says kenya is fighting what he calls a war on terrorism. But opponents say the proposed measures are draconian and antidemocratic. The group has carried out numerous attacks since 2011. The fighters stormed a Shopping Mall in nairobi and killed 67 people. Kenyas National Intelligence service would get greater powers to access phone and internet records, and journalists would face up to three years in jail if they publish or broadcast a report that the government says undermines a terrorist investigation. Andrew franklin is in nairobi and is a former u. S. Marine joining us to talk about this new law that is widely expected to pass. Changing the existing law is absolutely unnecessary, because no case has been made to demonstrate how the current laws have failed to protect us from terrorists, failed to protect Administration Police from heavily armed cattle rustlers, have failed to stop radically. We have a raft of securityrelated legislation that was in fact passed since the 2010 constitution. None of those laws, the National Police service act of 2011, nor the Kenyan Defense forces act of 2012, or the National Security act of 2012, none of those laws has been fully or even partially implemented. We have a disorganized Police Service which is unable to respond to actionable intelligence. And this is by the admission of the governments own independent policing service. This changes and alters a variety of clauses in nearly 30 pieces of legislation. It also will have a great effect on some of the rights in the constitution even the andrew, they actually need to pass this in light of all of the recent attacks that have taken place on kenyan soil, and it will actually enable Security Forces to fight what they call terrorism. No, it will not. In no way would changing the laws the way they are being proposed, and the way the laws are amended would have any effect on the killing of 64 christians in two separate massacres. These laws that are being amended, referred to now as draconian, rolling back rights from the 2010 constitution, will be easy to enforce against the media, against Civil Society organizations, against critics of the government. It will have no effect on attacks such as what happened in [ inaudible ] county, and hindi, on june 15th of this year. In fact its doubtful whether it would have any real effect on future West Gate Mall attacks as we start starting september 21st, 2013. How are kenyans feeling about this should it pass . I think the the overwhelming majority of kenyans are much too busy worrying about their next meal. I think there there is a lot of panic among christians who are working in places like m mandara, these are all government civil servants. They are there primarily to work, not because they come from that area. I noticed after the all right. I apologize, but that was Andrew Franklin speaking to us from nairobi, so were on stand by to find out if that bill is going to pass. Well bring you the latest on that. But still to come, isolated by the west and its economy under pressure, russian president signs several trade deals with an old friend, india. And drug resistant infections or socalled superbugs could be the next big killer. And coming up in sport, why this moment has been a Long Time Coming for one of argentinas most famous football clubs. So russias currency continues to slide despite attempt to ease pressure on the ruble. The government raised Interest Rates by 1 point to 10. 5 to counter inflation. The ruble has lost nearly half of its value over the conflict in ukraine. A sharp drop in Global Oil Prices has added to the currency woes. Rory challands joins us from moscow. Despite the best efforts, the ruble continues to slide. Reporter yeah, i think traders and analysts were pretty much unanimous in their belief that we were going to get some sort of Interest Rate hike on thursday, they only really differed in how much they thought it would go up by. So the 1 that we got takes russian interests right through to that kind of symbolic doubledigit territory. Its an attempt to bring down inflation. Its a also an attempt to hold the sliding ruble, which has lost some 40 of its value against the dollar so far this year. The central bank knows that what it is doing is going to be an increased burden on the russian economy at a time when the russian economy is not doing very well at all, but i think it thought that pushing Interest Rates up was the lesser of what is quite frankly a whole catalog of evils, and it said it would push those rates higher still if inflation doesnt come down. Looking forward, rory, what actually forecasting for the russian economy . Reporter well, not great things to be honest, and it begs the question is it actually going to make any difference at all in the aftermath of the announcement from the central bank, the ruble continued to slide. It is making records every day, it is now at about 55 rubles to the dollar. It has never been there before, so this is all bad news, and analysts basically are saying that there is nothing really that the central bank can do about this, because what the central bank has no influence at all over, is the global price of oil, and it is the global price of oil, that Falling Oil Price that is the main drag that is pulling the rule down, sending inflation up, and basically making the russian economy looking like a pretty bad bet at the moment. Okay. Thank you for that update. Well the stumbling economy and russian sanctions are prompting the russian president to now look east. Vladimir putin is in india, putin and the ingian Prime Minister has announced several agreements in energy and defense. These include moscow helping new delhi build new Nuclear Reactors and building Russian Helicopters in india. Reporter a whole host of memorandums of understanding have been signed between india and russia as Vladimir Putin has visited new delhi. The center piece of these agreements really has been the energy sector, gas and Nuclear Technology the real focus here. With russia expected to provide the kind of technology that india needs. But in terms of the historical context, both leaders alluded to the fact that they have been friends for a very long time. Their countries have shared mutual challenges, and they are there for each other, when they have needed them the most. The prime making a very interesting point in saying that, look, despite the changing dynamics of global politics, india will continue to stand by russia. And president putin describing the relationship as privileged. This comes on the backdrop of an expected visit by u. S. President barack obama in january, where global challenges including the ongoing conflict in ukraine will certainly be discussed. Ukraines Prime Minister warned the International Community of an impending default despite the existing bailout package. While addressing parliament in kiev, he promised tough Economic Reforms and identified a 15 billion shortfall in the current imf program for ukraine and asked international do done donors to help. Translator in order to receive financial aid, in order to survive in this difficult time, in order to prevent a default, we need an International Donor conference. And the help of our western partners. Fighting has erupted in eastern ukraine, despite a new ceasefire signed on tuesday. Three ukrainian soldiers have been killed and eight others injured in the last 24 hours. A group of 300 fighters have announced they will be joining prorussian separatists fighting in ukraine. These are mainly former state security troops with combat experience dating back to the 90s. Russia has always denied sending serving troops to eastern ukraine. The internet giant google has announced it will be shutting down its news service in spain. A new law requires Search Engines to pay spanish news groups. The law has been nicknamed the google tax. Goog six former guantanamo detainees have left the hospital in uruguay where they will eventually be resettled. They are now beginning the process of integration as an undisclosed location. All of the men had been held without charge for more than a decade. In Hong Kong Police have dismantled most of the protests sites. But activists say the fight isnt over. Reporter the last act of defiance at the end of more than two months of protest. Campaigners, many lawmakers among them waiting patiently to be arrested. For kelvin it was the second arrest in as many weeks. Will it be worth it . I think maybe we will decide ten years later. Reporter earlier police moved into the site as they said they would, many of the thousands protesters simply melting away. This time yesterday this whole highway was very much in the control of students doing their homework, listening to speeches. Now the police are very much in charge here. Very soon this highway will be open to the buses once more. What used to be the temporary study room was now deserted soon to be a memory. But the organizers of this movement remain unri unring unrepenitent. We will keep fighting. We will not cooperate with such an unauthorized government. Reporter protesters forced out of their camp were left to shout from the side roads. The main highway for so long their domain, being made ready for traffic once more. Well drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 Million People a year. Thats according to a new report on socalled superbugs. Microbes resistant to antibio c antibiotics already kill tens of thousands a year. Over use of antibiotics are is also to blame. Once treatable infections could kill millions around the world. These are the number of deaths expected every year by 2050 unless urgent reaction is taken. The african and asian continents are expected to be the coamost affected. Take a look at asia, there it is. Common proceed procedures would become next to impossible without antibiotics. The economic costs of all of this is 100 trillion, thats based on the number of lives that would be lost because of superbugs. The report concludes the impact on populations would reduce the worlds economic output by up to 3. 5 . Jim oneal, the author of this report spoke to us earlier. Here is what he said. This is a sort of challenge is that inclusive of effecting everybody in the world. In the more developed countries, its more the kind of things we pick up from bugs in hospitals. Whereas the rest of the world where many people dont have such access, the greater risk is from the great improvement in infection diseases. I read a report from the w. H. O. About the huge reversement in malaria. And those kind of things would be reversed because of this. Coming up on the al jazeera news hour. Well have more on the death of the palestinian minister, and the controversy over the autopsy. We also report from the u. S. State that is trying to make the execution of convicts more secrettive. 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. Now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. Get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. A global perspective wherever you are. The major headlines in context. Mashable says. Youll never miss the latest news they will continue looking for survivors. The potential for Energy Production is huge. No noise, no clutter, just real reporting. The new Al Jazeera America mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. Download it now the top stories on the al jazeera news hour. At least one person has been killed in blast at a French School in kabul, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the schools auditorium where a Theater Group was performing. Thousands of palestinians have attended the funeral of a minister who died after a confrontation with Israeli Soldiers on wednesday. Israeli and palestinian officials have issued conflicting accounts of the results on his autopsy. Russias currency pardon me, the slide in the ruble has lost nearly half of its value after sanctions were imposed following the conflict in ukraine, and the sharp drop in Global Oil Prices hasnt helped either. And the government has raised Interest Rates to 10. 5 to counter inflation. Going back to our top story, that is the funeral of the palestinian minister who died during a confrontation with israeli troops on wednesday. Daniel levy is at the European Council on foreign relations. Thank you for being with us. We are speaking to a palestinian negotiator earlier. And he said the Palestinian Leadership has decided on several points one of which is to suspend security operation with israel. No date has yet been set from what we understand. What do you make of that . And what will it mean for what is happening on the ground . Well, doreen, there was a logic to Security Cooperation which has been going on now for 20 years, the idea being one demonstrates mutual goodwill as part of a peace effort. However, after 20 years this isnt how it has worked out. Is this the moment where after 20 years of a failed approach to securing palestinian rights, the Palestinian Leadership will really change direction. The quote that you read me suggest it is. I would suggest we all wait and see because we have heard these words before, and we havent seen a change of appeal approach by the Palestinian Leadership. Do you think this is the time for them to do it . Will they actually go ahead and do it . And how will the streets react, after the death of ziad abu ein . Well, its a very strange choice of word. If something is sacred, you dont change it so quickly. I would imagine that Security Cooperation should be seen as part of a palestinian strategy, if one is a Palestinian Leader to try to secure rights. And if it works you continue, and if it doesnt, you dont. The important thing to remember here doreen is that Security Cooperation is not a stand alone. There is on entire architecture of the Palestinian Authority with very limited powers working alongside the israelis. If you are going to change the Security Cooperation, you have to change that entire architecture as a Palestinian Leader. One has to address how are the palestinians going to pursue a legitimate struggle . Simply saying we will stop Security Cooperation is not a new strategy. It suggests strategic confusion. I dont know how the palestinian street will respond. The palestinian street at times has been mobilized. One of the things that preventing mobilization is that the palestinian Security Forces act as a buffer, almost between the palestinian population and the israelis. So one will have to see whether that continues. I have had the Security Cooperation described to me by a senior former u. K. Official, as the Palestinian Authority Security Forces arrest people by day, and those they dont arrest by day, the idf arrests by night. He also did outline a number of other points. One of which he said that the president sent a letter to the u. N. Urging ban kimoon to establish international protection. What do you read into that . I would simply ask a very basic question, doreen. If the palestinians have a different approach that involves changes the costfree equation for israel, which israel can deny palestinian rights, maintain the occupation cost free, then why wouldnt one pursue that, and why would it take the death of the minister to change the palestinian strategy . Surely if there is a better strategy, the Palestinian Leadership should be pursuing it. What about the strategy of going to the United States . What about the strategy of them going to the United Nations this month, and putting forth their proposal calling for the end of the occupation by the end of 2016. What im trying to suggest is none of these are stand alone. You cant just go to the u. N. And think that will save you. If there is an approach, which says the palestinians now have to create leverage, question the asymmetry, create pressure on israel at the u. N. Through sanctions, through the withdraw pa cooperation, all of these things have to be brought to bare. You have to have a whole new strategy. Im not seeing it, but perhaps this is a moment of change. All right. Well have to leave it there, daniel. Thank you for speaking to us on al jazeera. The Lebanese Army has been fighting the Islamic State of iraq and the levant and syrias alqaeda branch for many months. There is an active front line in the northeast. Zana hoda reports. Reporter the Lebanese Army is at war. A few months ago, syrian armed groups tried to take over this northeastern border town. Since then, it has become a military zone. Soldiers guard the entrances to this majority sunni area. This is angering the residences. They say they are being punished for supporting the syrian opposition, and giving shelter to refugees. Translator the army is not allowing everyone to go in and out, and you are treated as suspected. Why doesnt the army just control the border. Reporter is there is an active front line here. The Islamic State of iraq and the levant, and alqaeda after fill at itted groups like alnusra, control the outskirts. From there they have attacked the army. The Lebanese Army says it is engaged in an openended war with what it calls terrorists. Military officials have told us they believe up to 1,500 fighters are in the region. This is not an easy fight. It is a 65kilometer front that the army needs to defend. But it also needs to convince the people here that they are not the target. They accuse the army of being a member of hezbollah. Translator the siege is destoring our lives. Should we just get rid of our lebanese ids. Reporter its home to more than 100,000 syrian refugees. And army has detained some of them. They were successful of capturing about 40 members of the alnusra front. Reporter the military says its fight is from preventing groups as using the area as an armed space. But lebanon has a sectarian divide. It is a dangerous one, especially when the institution that is supposed to hold the country together is being seen as some as part of the conflict. Al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have now been held in prison in egypt for 348 days. Peter greste, Mohammed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood. Peter greste and Mohammed Fahmy were each sentenced to seven years. Baher mohamed was given an additional three years for having a spent bullet in his possession, which he picked up at a protest. The u. S. State of ohio suspended all executions in may after a series of botched executions. Now state legislators are trying to pass a measure that would keep what happens in the Death Chamber a closely guarded secret from the public. Reporter it was father lawrence hummers first execution, but he knew something was going horribly wrong. He after two minutes began to gag audibly. And literally gag. And you could see his stomach begin to bloat. This was simply monstrous, as far as i was concerned, and it was contemptible. Reporter the lethalen injection lasted nearly half an hour. It was ohios fourth botched execution in recent years. European drug makers now refuse to supply the cocktail used for executions. Some doctors have refused to participate. So now they are trying to make the details of the executionings and many of the prisoners secret. We believe it is deserving of the most transparency, not the least. And its already a very secretive process to begin with. And what they are doing is saying more secrecy is the key here. Reporter legal analysts are calling it the most extreme execution measure of any state in the u. S. If it is signed into law, almost nothing about the state killing of child murders Ronald Phillips would be accessible to the public. Not the drugs used, who made them, or the identities of the doctors in the room. And ohios law would bar even the courts from knowing what happens inside the execution chamber. Politicians say dont blame them. They say it is Law Enforcement officials who insist this is the only way to get the drugs and medical staff needed to end the lives of the most dangerous criminals. We are trying to meet the requirements of the attorney general so it can be done in the most efficient way. Reporter one of the sponsors initially agreed to talk to us about it. Minutes later he said he has to rush to a meeting. Father hummer says he knows why politicians have been so elusive. They are trying to make it easy to execute people in the state of ohio by hiding the information from necessary parties, they are afraid somebody might know what they are doing . That reeks to me of sort of a secret society that i dont want to be part of. Gracious sakes. Reporter if the measure passes the law could become tied up in court battles, as a long line of men on death row continue to wait on news of their fate. The president of brazil has broken down in tears after a report was released on human rights abuses that occurred during military rule. The report details illegal arrests, torture, executions, and forced disappearances, and shows how the regime was responsible for the murders of more than 400 people. An amnesty law prevents military command frers being prosecuted. The Worldwide Web Foundation has launched its annual web index. 86 countries were assessed. The darker the color, the higher they scored. The lighter shade shows throws with poor connectivity. Denmark topped the list. At the other end of the spectrum, ethiopia ranked last. But not all of europe is as plugged in as it could be. Roughly a third of italians have never used the internet. Thats one of the lowest rates of usage on the tonight next. But now one Italian Village has decided to take matters into its own hands. Reporter if you had come to this area eight years ago, you could have found a village cut off from the digital world. Not everyones idea of a bad thing, perhaps. Then all of that changed, and this is why. A scientific experiment began using recycled parts and borrowed bandwidth bringing fast cheap internet here. Before us there was not internet at all. Reporter and the nonprofit project now has a government license so it can grow. We wanted to use this place as just a living lab to test our facilities, but we ended up with something that is such important to social value that we translate it into a social experiment. [ inaudible ] participating to the ownership and distribution of internet by themselves. Broadband has brought real change to the area. Property prices have risen, they say, and the trend of young Business People and entrepreneurs, fleeing the countryside is slowly being reversed. Translator the fact is that young people now can have more of what they have in the cities. Reporter the internet has touched even the most sacred part of the village. This 85yearold uses google for his sermons and facebook to keep in touch. Translator its not just important, its very important, because the village is very spread out. Everyone is far apart, and this correction is a force that links families together. Reporter an astonishing 50 of rural italy is still without internet. These small pockets of population seen as not profitable enough for the big telecoms providers. The communitybased internet model is breathing new life into the depopulated countryside, and that in the end, does seem to be most peoples idea of a good thing. Still to come on the al jazeera news hour. Were high in the himalayas where the credits are rolling for a Film Festival dedicated to mountain life. Plus im reporting from above the peruvian amazon where the logging trade is exploiting tribal lands in every direction. And find out if england can keep their series alive. Andrew will be here with that and the rest of the sport. Hello again, efforts to increase protection for the world forests have failed. And now the abuse of perus forests will continue. Reporter thousands of years in am sonja, life has revolved. It is the Rich Heritage of a people who have a complete affinity for the environment they live in. But nowadays it doesnt tell the full story. Take to the air and you see the river, then youll see the wholesale plundering of an ecosystem. Forest lands are being exploited in every direction. Legal logging companies have manipulated agreements with tribal leaders, and illegal logging companies are just operating with impunity. Here is the endless expanse of a palm oil plantation. And logging has opened up the rain forest which enables you to reach areas like this. Once a remote amazon village, today connected to the road by the outside world. Now there are streetlights and a school. And a health care system. But illegal loggers have been using the road to plunder the land. Translator people are invading our forest and turning it into fields. Its a real problem for our community. Reporter the destruction is plain to see, the title rights ignored with devastating effect. Its in the heart of their territory. Maze now standings where once primary rain forests stood. Javier doesnt know who is responsible. Not so many years ago, the people were hunter gathers. Deforestation has changed all of that. Translator all of the animals have gone. The loggers come in and destroy the forest, the animals run far away. We cant hunt like we used to. Reporter but they have benefited from the logging road, but the benefits have come at a price to their forest and their way of life. Now time for all of the sports news with andy. The Formula One Team have decided to keep the champion from next season. Mclaren have taken weeks to finally arrive at this decision. It means the teammate kevin is relegated to the role of test driver. Have a lot of experience between us. 500 grand prix. So you live and you learn, and personally, i feel that we bring a lot to this team working together. I think we are both very grown up and intelligent enough to understand we have to Work Together. Now the 16 teams will go into the next round of the europe europeans champions league. Victories against munich and this result was enough for city to go into the season. The seeds will take on one of the following teams that cant be drawn against the club from the same country. Now argentinian side [ inaudible ] have won the [ inaudible ] for the first time in their history. This is south americas secondtier competition. The 20 win saw them record a 30 aggregate victory. They have a chance of winning the Argentinian League on sunday, and they can celebrate their First International title in 17 years. Now the nfl has put in place a new personal conduct policy. The move follows the leagues handling or mishandling of two high profile sayses involving players. Andrew peterson of the Minnesota Vikings was suspended after pleading no contest to child abuse charges, but he is now appealing that decision. Roger goodell has faced criticism for the league being too lenient. The new rules allow the nfl to do their independent investigationings. Those charged will be immediately put on leave. Everyone in the nfl is accountable to tougher rules and better procedures. Second, these high standards will be upheld through a rigorous process. One that is clear, formal, consistent and transparent. It includes a new process for league investigations. The addition of an Advisory Group of experts, and a new disciplinary officer. England cricketers have kept they oneday series alive. England were chasing 240 for victory. This starting a day late due to rain. The captain is still struggling to perform. An unbeaten century saw england home. [ inaudible ] has lead by example on day 3 of the first test against australia. He scored a century [ inaudible ] 517 for 7. He was hit on the helmet from mitchell johnson. This of course the myself match australia has played since the death of hughes. They still trail the home side by nearly 150 runs. And hockey fans have been paying respect to [ inaudible ]. He died last week at age 83. Okay. Doreen that is how your sport is looking for now. Andy thank you very much for that. For though of you who enjoy the high life, the kathmandu Film Festival is starting next week in nepal. Reporter its International Mountain day, and the capitol is celebrating with the Film Festival. Audiences can watch 80 films, representing 20 countries on mountain sports, culture and adventure. The director has found that many of the local submissions reflect nepals turbulent experiences in recent years. It reflects what is happening in our society. Reporter it is a part of the International Alliance for mountain films. Last year more than 25,000 people came to watch films during the festival. The festival is the only mountain festival in asia, ever since it started it has inspired many youngsters to make their own films. Some have even gone on to start their own Film Festival. This is one of them. After his debut film was screened here, he quit his job as a Public Relations officer, now he runs once on the a time, a short Film Festival. Translator i can do a better job expressing myself through films rather than talk. We have all of the gadgets, cameras and recorders, but young film makers need to focus more on the content too. Reporter [ inaudible ] won in 2009 and his films have been screened all over the world, and thanks to this evermore popular festival, audiences can see how people in other countries deal with the challenges of living in the mountains. Thanks for watching the news hour. More news coming up in just a moment. Once only available on the black market, now accessible with the click of a mouse. We examine how the internet is fueling the illegal wildlife trade like never before. The stream on Al Jazeera America hundreds of days in detention. Al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. Thousands calling for their freedom. Its a clear violation of their human rights. We have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. Journalism is not a crime. The cia strikes back, three former directors forcefully defend themselves against the cias use of pressure. And what was said about the white house behind closed doors and a big discovery in outer space. Im antonio mora, welcome to consider this, those stories and others straight ahead. This particular release serves no purpose. Seems to me its deeply flawed. We violated who we were