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syrias efforts days ahead of peace talks. and france's president tries to focus on the business of government despite more allegations about his personal life. and stifle decent angering kiev as the government moves to crack down on protests. barack obama has been outlining changes to u.s. surveillance programs that were criticized both in the u.s. and overseas. the methods of the national security agency wasser posed by edward snowden who used to work for the nsa. obama said the government will be changing the way it handles what is called metadata, information about who is calling whom from where and at what time. a court ruling will now be necessary. an independent panel will be set up which looks into terrorism cases, and the u.s. president promising that his country would no longer be eavesdropping on the heads of states of close friends and allies. [ applause ] >> reporter: this was a speech about restoring trust in the u.s. government's ability to monitor the rest of us. president obama acknowledged that a new approach was needed to the mass connection of u.s. phone records. >> i am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bulk metadata program as it currently exists, and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities that we need, without the go holding this metadata. >> reporter: it will be up to the intelligence community and the government to come up with a new plan. but the question whether any bulk data is constitutional even by a third-party will continue to be a key issue for congress. as for international surveillance there was this. >> i have made clear that unless there is a compelling national security purpose, we will not monitor the heads of state of government of our close friends and allies. >> reporter: and the mass dragnet will continue but with some restrictions. >> i have taken the unprecedented step of extending certain protections we have for the american people to people overseas. i have directed the dni to develop these safeguards which will limit the duration we can hold personal information while also restricting the use of this information. >> reporter: this is in keeping with the u.s. government's view that the rest of the world has no constitutional protections. it's up to foreign governments to protect their own citizen's information, and as edward snowden's documents have shown it's foreign governments that are king atively helping the u.s. government snoop threw the records with no restrictions. >> patty cullhane joins us now. what did you make of the speech? >> it was surprising how few changes the president is actually recommends. the review panel produced a 300-page report. there were 46 recommendations. they were very detailed he is basically take half measures for each one of them. one thing a this is not talked about very much overseas is for years now the fbi has been able to use these national security letters. they send a letter to let's say a credit card company and say i need information on every transaction from patty cullhane. they have to hand over the information, but they are gagged and not allowed to tell anyone. basically the president is saying the only change might be that they have to tell me that they have searched my records but not in all cases. >> i thought he looked a little bit awkward? >> i did he did sound fairly defensive. we have heard several of these complains from the president in the last few months. but one of the things that was interesting, and he has said this before but not in such pointed language. he basically said all of these governments that are complaining publicly, they know they need the u.s. help privately. and he said he felt the u.s. is being held at a higher standard. he said you would never ask this review of russia or china. and one of the things that i was interesting is all of the justification he used. he began talking about all of the times in history that intelligence went on to be abused, but this intelligence is necessary. he talked about 9/11, and one of the more interesting things is if there is an attack we need to find out immediately if it is part of a broader plot. but he didn't bring up the attack on the boston marathon. they didn't know who was behind it for days, so he left himself open to that criticism, and here in the u.s. and i'm sure abroad there will be a lot of criticism for what the president decided not to do. >> and when that comes through, i'm sure you will bring it to our attention. thank you. patty cullhane outside the white house. this attack is in afghanistan where the taliban says it was behind a bombing at a rant in kabul. let's go to kabul, and jane ferguson joining us live. what happened jane? >> david it has been an incredibly brutal attack here in kabul. a senior police source has told al jazeera that 14 people were killed, and that includes four women and amongst the dead with foreigners as well as afghans. he has said that three attacker attacked the restaurant. one was wearing a suicide vest he detonated at the door of the restaurant, allowing the two other attackers to enter the restaurant and open fire. the attack took place at 7:15 on a friday evening. so a very, very brutal attack here right in the heart of the city. >> and in an area which is pretty well protected, jane, is it not? and where many people would have felt they were safe enough going out? >> absolutely, it's really a diplomatic area, very close to several western embassies, the restaurant was extremely popular with diplomats, it has very senior security clearance. many people who were diplomats as well as un staff and senior afghan figures would eat there regularly on an evening like a friday night. i personally have been to that restaurant, and it has extremely good security, reinforced steel doors. as you go in there is a corridor which was also reinforced steel. many diplomats could have -- do often go there, so it's really an indicator of an incredible breach of security. >> indeed. jane thank you. five days before planned negotiations in switzerland the syrian government has made an offer. it is proposing a prisoner swap with the rebels and has outlined plans for a ceasefire in allepo. paul brenen reports from moscow. >> reporter: just 24 hours after the iranian foreign minister met his russian counterpart, on friday it was the syrian's term to be publicly greeted bier is gov at the mansion. all three foreign ministers had met on thursday to talk strategy ahead of geneva. in front of the cameras mr. lavrov returned to the theme. >> translator: there are attempts to create artificial obstacles to derail the conference or obstruct its work. >> reporter: with so little agreed the syrian foreign minister emerged to launch what amounts to a everyonetive strike. first a plan for a local ceasefire in allepo. second, a proposed prisoner swap, exchanging detainees in government jail for exchange of those captured by opposition fighters, and third delivery of humanitarian aims. by proactively suggesting these, the foreign minister is painting the assad government as part of the solution to the problems instead of the problem itself. it's shrewd politics, and russia and syria appear to be trying to drive the agenda. >> reporter: but in washington on thursday, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry warned that president assad could not deflect attention nor rewrite history. >> those whose brutality created this magnet. how they could ever lead syria away from extremism and towards a better future is beyond any kind of logic or common sense. >> reporter: positions seem to be hardening. >> translator: as i have confirmed the syrian delegation will go to geneva, as we believe a peaceful settlement is the only way out now. >> reporter: the question now, will the opposition groups agree to do the same? it's less than a week now, but the main opposition body still hasn't decided whether or not to attend those geneva 2 talks. let's get to the latest from anita at istanbul. >> we're in an isolated location, more than an hour's drive outside of istanbul, where the delegations have agreed to meet. those who think they should at tend, and those who have withdrawn. but they can't get the kind of discussions they want to have whether they can get it back together again. so people have now left this hotel location, and are going back to istanbul to try to meet face-to-face with the withdrawals as they are called, so try to see if they can broker an agreement. it's all about the numbers. you see if the efforts to go to geneva failed, the people want them to fail for noble reasons. if they don't have the numbers to make a credible decision that looks inclusive about yes or no, then the syrian national coalition, supposedly the umbrella group representing a brood-based syrian opposition from the military to the political situation will have failed. at least seven people have been killed in lebanon when rockets hit a border town and several other towns. 15 people were hurt. it's a shoeny area that hosts thousands of syrian refugees. okay an idea of what we have coming up in the news hour. desperation, anger in the central african republic, the un warning of dire consequences if the world doesn't do something. and ice fishing. the festival bringing tens of thousands to a frozen river in south korea. . in sport brazilian star is basing up to a month on the sidelines. ♪ thailand's opposition protest leaders blaming the government for a blast in the rally capitol of bangkok. at least 36 people were injured. an explosive device was thrown into a crowd of demonstrators. the opposition want to retail the elections in february, and try to force the prime minister to resign. >> translator: brothers and sisters, there's no need to suspect anyone else. it is solely the government who has done this. no one else would do this. they plot it up, planned it, and they acted on it. myanmar has denied reports of a buddhist group staging a tack. hundreds of people are said to have fled their home. the politicians remain silent over the killings in the country. the last european soldier to surrender after the second word war ended has died. he hid on an island in the philippine peens in 1974. he flew there after his former commander reversed his orders to stay behind and spy on american troops. the congress party stopped short of naming one man as its candidate for prime minister. as reported from new delhi, he faces a difficult path. >> reporter: it wasn't quite the announcement party workers had been hoping for. >> translator: the decision has been taken and is final. >> reporter: his hopes of becoming the prime minister have been put on the back burner until it's certain the party wins the upcoming general election. >> translator: we will fight and win the battle of the elections, but congress party's prime minister will be chosen by members of parliament as per the constitution. >> reporter: he will front the complain, but for party workers, he is the man, and for them a vote winner. thousands have gathered in the nation's capitol to hear officially who the ruling congress party will choose to lead the fight for them. the son, grandson, and great grandson of a former prime minister his rise through the ranks took less than a deck indicate. for the past decade he has played an active role, highlighting his work with the poor, increasing his ranks and encouraging young people to join. but his party lost, coming fourth in 2001. now elected as the man to lead thement complain, he has a huge task ahead of him. many supporters agree. >> so the young leader is really good, and he is fit enough to lead the indians here. >> translator: the whole country knows he is the right man for the job. because young people are with him and he looks at all of the people of this country as equals. >> reporter: regional state elections over the past two years have by and large been disastrous for the congress party. he'll need to find a way to overcome the public's mistrust in the political party he now leads. he has to win the general election, because if he doesn't, he'll be damaged as a party leader, and there may be called within the ranks for him to go. we're going to get a little bit more on president obama's announcement of some changes at least in how the u.s. conducts his surveillance. in europe trust in the u.s. was badly damaged. barbara has more. david the damage was particularly severe in germany. german public opinion was outraged when it emerged that nsa agents had been monitoring the chancellor's phone. we're joined live from berlin with a little bit more. presumably angela merkel and the rest of the government should be happy with the announcements? >> if they are, they aren't letting us know. but i think far more important to merkel and her government and the german public is a no-spy agreement that germany and the united states have been working on for a number of months, and the leaks that have been made to the press are that the german side are expecting nothing much to come of it. the germans had been hoping for promises that no other politicians would be spied upon, angela merkel had been given a promise by barack obama that her phone would no longer be listened to. there will not according to press reports be access to the roof of the american embassy, which is just a short walk from the building that you see behind me, upon which there is german media belief is a spy nest, which allows the americans to listen to the communications of people in the government district. nor will there be limitation on the ma -- metadata of the phone calls of german citizens. quite apart from how they feel about this speech. and as i said there hasn't been any reactions so far. >> the germans not happy, we heard an advisor saying relations between the two are worse now than during the iraq war. are there any attempting being made to try to rebuild this relation. >> barack obama called angela merkel on wednesday in part to wish her well, because she fell cross country skiing, and to invite her to the united states, and invitation which was accepted. the germans also said today whatever the spy dispute may be, it could not endanger the trans-atlantic trade negotiations which were ongoing, which is far more important than the mistrust which is still there as a result of the leaking made by edward snowden. so i think both sides recognize that even if they are not agreeing to the extent in which americans can spy on german citizens and efbl -- even officials, there are other things to continue to work on. >> thank you, nick. another person trying to protect his privacy is the french president. he has been continuing with business as usual, addressing groups in paris. he also visited his official partner in hospital since the first time since the report of the aledged affair with the actress. >> reporter: the president addresses the diplomatic corps in paris. he focuses on his foreign policy aims. >> translator: france's first and constant principle is peace. we seek solutions to dialogue and negotiations, and if that is not possible, then we act. >> while the president talks about foreign affairs, the allegations about his personal affairs continue. the gossip magazine that broke the news has published more revelations, and she is on several ore front covers. this story seems to interest french journalists more than the french public. his popularity rating was pretty low to begin with, however. >> first of all do his job. and then do whatever he wants. it doesn't matter what he is doing with all of the girls. >> he is a public man. in that is nonsense. no it's not his private life. it matters to the french and the people in france to know what goes on, you know, and how he directs his life. >> translator: for me, he is a man above all, so there could be things like that happening in his life. right now he represents france. it's normal, but it's a controversy. >> reporter: the long-term companion has been in hospital since the story broke. he visited her for the first time last night. although not married to the president, she has fulfilled the role of first lady. he is expected to announce whether that is still the case. we're going to have more from europe a little later in the news hour, but now back to david in doha. >> thank you very much indeed. the united nations is warning if the world doesn't act in the central african republic, the implications are dramatic. they say we have a territory on a map, but we don't have the infrastructure of a state any longer. politically the country has collapsed. the army as police force have also disisn't it grated. the united makeses is urging the international community to step in, step up, and increase donations. it's asking for $247 million over the next 100 days. so far only 6% funded, just over $15 million. that money is needed to provide food, water, medicine, housing for almost a million people. some of those in need of help have been seeking refuge at the international airport. and barnaby phillips went to see them. >> reporter: welcome to bangie airport, where some of the most desperate people on earth are in surreal juxtaposition. an american airplane comes in. on board, rwanda soldiers. even with these reinforcements, the peace-keeping force in the central african republic, appears far too small for the task at hand. on the other side of the airport fence, the aid is beginning to flow. in this camp everyone is christian, driven from their homes but the selica militia. more and more hope is reaching the camps, but the real challenge is convincing people to go home. and we're not seeing significant signs that that is happening yet. for now these people feel it is too dangerous to return to their neighborhoods. >> the conditions are far from ideal. the airport was not made to accommodate 100,000 people. there are no latrines or running water. there is very little space for people to sleep. muslims are also afraid and continue to leave the area. this was a convoy setting off for chad. we saw chadian soldiers protecting the convoy. christians jeered. many accused chad of supporting the celica militia. african peace keepers decided to intervene before things got uglier. meanwhile back at the airport a calmer evacuation. this one of sudanese who say they are a target because of their religion. >> will you come back here? >> no, sitterable. these people here don't like me, and i don't like them. this was a city where people of different faiths lived peacefully together, recreating that environment will not be easy. we have got this coming up for you if you stay with us on the news hour. remember the man who brought kung fu to a global audience, and showcasing off-beat cinema. we'll be live from the sun dance film festival. surfing could be wiping out the traditional way of life in morocco. he's been vice president for almost a year and belongs to one ♪ you are watching the al jazeera news hour with me david foster, let me recap the main headlines. president obama outlying changes to the spying program both abroad and at home. the taliban has said it was behind an attack on a restaurant in the afghan capitol that killed 14 people. the attack was in a part of kabul that is considered normally to be very secure. the syrian go is offering to exchange prisoners with the opposition. they also proposed a southeast fire in allepo. this is just ahead of international talks in switzerland next week. on that point we can join marine from the group building a syrian state joining us life from london. i was mentioning those talks and you are representing a group which was like to see major change in syrian society, and you have not even been invited to those talks, what do you make of that? >> well, it really doesn't matter a lot now, because we see geneva as mainly an international meeting, so the consensus among the international parties is far more important at this stage before talking about any syrian contribution, and yet we don't see strong signs of international consensus, which is why we're a bit worried about geneva. of course once you have got strong international consensus around the solution in syria, then indeed it's extremely crucial that you have the parties who are interested in ending the conflict to be on the table. >> but the headline groups, such as the syrian national council, the islamic front, as well, they are the ones that get the headlines. groups such as yours on the periphery, it seems, are you being listened to? >> no. they listen -- but it just goes from one ear to the other. we don't see an impact in the policies and decision making. it doesn't only apply on us, but also on all of the civil society organizations are very, very active and remain out there syria, and those would like to see a peaceful dignified exit out of this crisis. many other players now became players who benefit from the continuation of this conflict. the oppositions, you know, they have -- the war economy factor here, so a lot of people are benefiting from the continuation of the conflict, and the meme who really want to see -- >> that leads me to ask you how represent tiff you think those bodies that international governments are talking to, how representative they are of those who like you want change in syria, but not necessarily brought about the way it is being done at the moment? >> they are not percenttive at all. it's very difficult to measure representation in syria. but we can predict that syrians want peace, want a ceasefire, and want paramount lasting peace also. this should respond to the first call for rights and freedom that people started the whole conflict asking for it. no, there is no representation, indeed, and the groups that grow organically inside the country, those are active inside the society. those are the most misrepresented. because they know the needs and prayers of the society, they can tell us what they want, those sitting from outside are like somebody trying to drive a car remotely. it doesn't.work. >> well, thank you. i hope perhaps that by being on this program, we've been able to get you to reach a wider audience at least. thank you. >> thank you. there are so many different strands to the conflict in sy a syria, one of course is the chemical weapons, and now that some are out, where are they going? let's go back to barbara in london for more on that. 560 tons of the most toxic chemicals are to be changing ships at a town in southern italy. it is from there that claudio sent us this report. >> reporter: it's business as usual at the biggest port in italy. but is this the calm before the storm? chemical weapons ceased from of syria will be transshipped before being destroyed out at sea. the port specializes in transshipment, the loading of cargo from one ship to another. and this is how they are going to do it. the chemical weapons will be loaded from the danish ship on to these trailers which will be driven to the american ship docked nearby so they can take them out in the open seas and destroy them. the local mayor says nearby residents are panicking. >> translator: people here are worried and angry. they are not being told what is going on. what is inside the containers. how are they going to be moved? containers have fallen off in the past. is there a plan to protect the population? no, there is not. >> reporter: workers say they are worried about handling chemical weapons. >> i hope it doesn't come here. we don't know what we're dealing with. so i hope those who carry it also handle it. >> reporter: the exact time of the ship arrival is shrouded this secrecy, port authorities told al jazeera they don't expect it for at least another week, in the meantime they will get ready for the arrival of the most dangerous cargo in the world. president putin says that gay visitors should feel welcome, but he has angered people by once again linking homosexuality with pedophilia. >> translator: we aren't banning anything. we aren't rounding up anyone. one can feel relaxed at ease but please leave the children in peace. the ukrainian government signed a bill that gives the state greater power to punish demonstrators. at in the capitol, demonstrators wore handcuffs, gags and fake blood to symbolize the protests. >> reporter: these protests have been going on since and it will november, but there is concern that authorities might try to end them. ukrainian members of parliament voted for a draft law. opposition members tried to block the vote, but failed. the authors of the bill say it's like similar laws in europe and the united states. >> translator: this law is not against the protesters at all. peaceful demonstrations are protected by the constitution, but actions that aren't peaceful that are of a terrorist or extremist character must be prohibited by law. >> reporter: any law would punish for these items . . . >> i think it's disaster. and i think it's a law which is making -- like all conditions and making possible crack down on civil society in ukraine. >> reporter: organization is already writing the mp's to clarify who voted for the bill. they say because the vote was by raised hand it violated the rules and undermines the parliament system. >> reporter: if the bill were passed it would make like tents like these imlegal without a police permit. in short it gives the authorities all the powers they need to shut down this demonstration, which may have been the point all along. even the protesters are divided about how to get what they want. some say the next step is to take power by force. others say peace is the answer. and neither side seems prepared to compromise. the czech republic has a new prime minister. the social democratic party won elections in october, and he took at a signing-in ceremony. now iran has attended an international agricultural affair in germany for the first time in eight years in what could be a sign of sewing relations between the two countries. not quite enough to melt the ice cream, though. that was one of the products at the largest consumer food fair in berlin. they also offered their signature products. those are the main stories here in europe. now back to david in doha. >> barbara thank you very much indeed. an update on events in egypt. people are still waiting for the official outment come on a vote on a new constitution. tear fired at protesters in several cities. egypt's health minister says two people were killed one death was in cairo, and the other was south of cairo. people demonstrated in defiance of an unarmed protest. al jazeera is tinning to l ka for the immediate release of five of its journalists. they have been held without charge now for 20 days, accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and of joining a terrorist group, allegations which al jazeera says are fabricated. the other two journalists, from our sister channels. they have been detained now for five months. hong kong is remembering the man who was instrumental in turning kung fu movies who a globally loved genre. he died on january 7th. he was 107. rob mcbride has more. >> reporter: they came throughout the day, a quietly respe respectful line of stars. business and political leaders were also there in equal numbers. but also members of the public, many from a generation who grew up with shaw bother's productions. >> translator: i saw many of his movies in the early years. >> translator: i grew up watching his movies. >> translator: he cares very much about society, so i wanted to remember him. >> reporter: in a career spanning 80 years, run run shaw was very candid about his studio's mission. we're here to make money he once famously quipped. in its heyday the shaw brother's studios were turning out up to 40 movies a year. he won't be forgotten to the contribution he made in developing the kung fu genre. >> the best kung fu movie in hong kong because they had a very good director and marshall art choreographer, they put it together, and then of course, they had a very strong story. >> reporter: shaw's legacy extents way beyond china itself. the shaw brothers being credited with helping grow the cinema business in asia out there much of the last century. he brought entertainment to millions in languages they could understand. the independent film festival sun dans -- dance is a chance to showcase their films live. let's go to robert reynolds. [ laughter ] rob -- >> that's an understandable mistake. >> i know. i know. i know. what makes you different? >> reporter: well, this is the kind -- the kind of movie you are going to see here is not the heavy-on special effects hollywood films. these are low budget many by less well-known directors, and this is really the prime venue for those types of films to get a showing, and get scene by critics, distributors, and studio executives. i'm standing in front of the historic egyptian theater where many of the premiers take place, and things are starting to get pretty busy here. if we look down main street you can see plenty of people going to and fro in the quite chilly temperatures here in the mountains of utah. there are thousands of people here to see this festival, including actors, directors, move i have studio directors and lots of journalists as well. not all of the films being shown here are going to break through and be widely seen by a lot of people, but there is always the chance one of these will become one of the next big hits. that has happened before, winter's bone launched the career of jennifer lawrence, and beast of the summer's wild, which was in the running for the best picture last year. >> all right. we'll leave your viewers to decide which one is real box office. thank you very much. we have robin and the sport in just a moment. sir arena williams reaches another milestone in tennis. that and the rest of the australian open details coming up next. okay robin is here and so is the sport. >> thank you so much. hello there, barcelona's main will be out for up to a front. he was hurt on thursday in the second match. the club says he could be back in time for the trip to manchester city on february 18th. and to tennis now, and the number 2 seed raced to his first two sets in 70 minutes. then his opponent upped his game in the third set and broke him while he was trying to serve for the match. he served and eventually overpowered his opponent. he is attempting to become the first man in the professional era to win four consecutive australian open titles. >> i have done really well, dennis is a very tough opponent. he is a great quality player, he has tested to a lot of top players on differenter is faces, because he can hit the ball really well. the spaniard beat the frenchman and serena williams made it just 1:20. it was her 61st victory at the tournament. players and officials are celebrating the end of an extreme heat wave that saw temperatures pass 40 degrees celsius for four straight days. this player from china needed treatment for heat stroke before being better in her next match. it is predicted to be 20 degrees cooler on saturday. formula one legend michael schumaker remains in a stable condition. he has been in an medically induced coma since december 29th. the manager has given the first statement since the family asked for privacy ten days ago. she said . . . australia's cricketer have kicked it up again. they have james falkner to thank for that. and this pair put on the victory. australia now leads the series 2-0. rory mcelroy had a difficult tour in 2013, but is showing so far this year. scotland's craig lee and the spaniard are top of the leader board at the halfway mark. the sea has always provided a living for people on the moroccan report. paul reports from the village. >> reporter: the call to prayer wakes the village to its daily task. for thousands of years the workers sustainment for life has been fishing, but as the day's catch is brought in, a very different fleet is about to leave the show. surfing has hit the area in a big way. ♪ >> reporter: in just 14 years since a portuguese pro surfing set up camp year, this tiny fishing village isment becoming a major international decemberation. many surf schools have a policy of employing only moroccan instructors. the vast majority of riders on the waves are european. >> translator: we have tourists here, we have crowds. we have more because of them, because of them we move forward. >> reporter: while fisherman here say they are fining fewer and fewer fish in their nets, surfing seems to be something this village can hold on to. caught between the old world and the new, are father and son fishermen. mohammed is also a surfer, but their business is struggling. here nay resell fish to tourists. that's because the 8 meter waves also broke 20 of the local fleet boats. >> translator: when i was a child we used to glue together plastic fish crates and surf on those. >> reporter: surfing does replace fishing as a way of life here. people can at least be sure there is a plentiful supply of waves. >> that is your sport. >> robin thank you very much. and cold weather isn't going to stop south koreans from having fun. harry reports from the area. >> reporter: it's become a winter tradition here. january is ice fishing season, and not just for a few hardy enthuses ands, tens of thousands come every day each with his or her own individual fishing style. this frozen stretch of river a couple of hours from seoul. >> translator: it's fun here. >> reporter: the common factor and the hundred for the prize, the trout, will need patience. rewarded with the alive of the fish truck. each day 3 to 8 tons of fresh fish arrive. it's all about being in the right place at the right time. >> this is my first time. i guess already, you know. >> reporter: if that is not enough, you can always try this. i can tell you it is cold enough in this weather, let alone dressed like these guys. the object is to catch the fish by hand. and success means a wet fish down the front of your t-shirt. after the catching comes the eating. the fish can be consumed roasted, raw, or for the brave still wiggling. this is a festival in its 12th year becoming ever more important to its economy. >> translator: this year around 4.1 million people are expected to come. we're talking about $60 million for the local economy. >> reporter: crowded far from natural, but obviously fun, for many this is the perfect way to brighten up a bone-chilling season. the world as we see it. thank you for watching. for me david foster, and our team, bye for now. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >> the men and women of the intelligence community, including the nsa, consistently follow protocols designed to protect ordinary people. >> the president says changes will be made, but the intelligence community is not abusing its power. plus new questions about the safety of the water in west virginia. and firefighters trying to stamp out those wildfires burning in southern california. ♪
IstanbulTurkeyAustraliaChadEgyptian-theaterCaliforniaUnited-statesNew-delhiDelhiIndiaBrazilChina what's the weirdest thing you saw? butt up! those who didn't run cheered on those who did a successful bay to breakers - with many promisingthey'll be back maybe it will be next year when our fourth viking gets here, come on! san francisco officials and authorities calling the race a success. about 40-thousand people took part in the annual race. with an added 100,000 spectators also cheering on runners and joining in post race festivities. authorities say at least 3 people were transported for minor injuries during the almost 7 and a half mile race. this year. police presence was stepped up by an extra 20 percent. but that didn't damper the post race spirits. i think this is one of the quintessential san francisco events. we need to keep it going, keep it active, and encourage a very diverse and help the expression of what it means to be a citizen. in our day and age this is how we're doing. race officials also added 25 percent more porta potties along the route. as always. alcohol was banned but that didn't keep some participants from bringing beverages with them. san francisco police released some of the arrest numbers for the event. twenty-five for public intoxication. two were arrested on felony narcotics charges. and three for public urination. however the most interesting arrest? a naked man harassing a bison in golden gate park. the rest will be released tomorrow. some racers had a little too much fun today. we're taking a closer look at the post race partying. and race revelers behaving badly. in a special bay to breakers weekend edition of people behaving badly. coming up later in our newscast. a santa rosa mother is out on bail tonight following an arrest for allegedly assaulting a boy at her children's elementary school. kron four's phiippe djegal explains what led up to the disturbing altercation. 30-year-old delia garcia- bratcher could face felony charges folowing allegations from the sonoma county sheriff's office which says she grabbed a 12-year-old boy's neck at her children's school in santa rosa -- olivet elementary -- and made threats. during lunchtime on friday, while garcia-bratcher was on school grounds trying to get a third child enrolled at olivet, the sheriff's office says garcia-bratcher walked out of the school office and had her son point out the 12-year-old boy who she believes has been bullying her daughter. witnessed, including multiple children, school staff and garcia-bratcher's own son tell the sheriff's office that she grabbed the boy by the throat and told him to stop bullying her daughter -- or else. the boy told a teacher about what happened and the sheriff's office says photos taken by school staff of the boy's neck show red marks with a handprint. on facebook account registered to garcia-bratcher, a saturday post reads "i was arrested for a kid saying i grabbed his neck. it's lies and the truth will be told." a later post reads "i am writing to doctor phil. i'm not playing because this is my life and i want a lie detector test for him and me point blank." garcia bratcher was arrested friday, booked on suspicion of felony inficting injury on a child. she then posted bail. the district attorney's office is expected to review the case on monday. in the meantime, the sheriff's office says a judge has granted an emergency protective order limiting garcia-bratcher's access to the school and prevents her from contacting the victim. in santa rosa, philippe djegal, kron four news. he's happy to be back >> it's confirmed it's joseph twitchell. im so happy, thank god. joseph twitchell was missing for 1 day, leaving his caretakers completely stressed out. joseph previously suffered a brain injury and has the mental capacity of a 10 year old. he apparently ventured out of holly's care home, and went looking for a treat. >> i can't help i have a weakness for coffee. it was right before dinner. everyone went to wash their hands before eating, then they noticed someone was missing. > look for him in san jose, blossom hill expressway, everywhere. caretakers received a call from police on sunday. joseph was spotted. san jose pd dropped him off unharmed. in fact a good samaritan gave him food and clothing during the time he was missing. >> they gave me a hat. >>they gave him clothes. thank you so much. you have a good heart. thank you so much for helping joseph. reporting in san jose alecia reid kron 4 news. an eight-year old girl is still in critical condition-- after she was hit in the neck by a stray bullet during a drive-by shooting in east oakland. police say it happened on friday as the girl was playing in the front yard with her younger brother. that's when two men got out of a car and opened fire. the girl was shot in the neck and rushed into emergency surgery. police say a 40 -year-old man was also shot in the leg but is expected to be okay. they are investigating to see if the man was the intended target. no arrests have been made. coming up on kron 4 news at 8 p- m. the latest move bay area authorities are making to make sure you buckle up! firefighters finally getting an upper hand on the deadly southern california wildf bringn diego county next! evacuation orders are lifted in southern california. the blaze has been raging through the san diego area since last week. almost fifty homes have been destroyed causing over twenty million dollars worth of damage. tonight it's reported that the san marcos fire is eighty-five percent contained. one woman recounts her fears and relief that her home was spared. this whole area was nothing but fire and smoke. i knew my husband and son in law or up here. and i thought they were dead. > > calming winds and cooling temperatures have helped fire crews move towards containment. the cocos, mateo and tomahawk fires are over eighty percent contained. the pulgas fire at camp pendleton is still burning at fifty-five percent containment. governor brown says this may just be the the start of the state's worst fire season ever. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. are those thrusters burning? that's a negative. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. with the u-verse tv app, the u-verse revolves around you the u-verse revolves around you new tonight at eight - a scary situation for a man after he finds himself trapped along a steep cliff in fort funston park in san francisco fire rescue had to be called out. kron 4's scott rates shows us why the man ended up there, and how crews were able to rescue him will firefighters tell me this rescue happen right here where i'm standing that a man went down over this cliff after his dog and then realized he couldn't get back up and that's when rescue crews sprung into action. sf pd was called out to fort funston just after 330 sunday afternoon. thats when they discovered that man stuck on the side of the cliff. rescue crews had to quickly figure out how they were going to get that man off the side of the cliff, the fire chief tells me that it was a very meticulous process. we have to set up safety lines and anchors to make sure we can get back where we send rescue down the cliff. it can be perilous and make sure we don't get anybody else injured. it takes a lot of coordination to make everything is working properly and in st.. sync and the rescue was a success, i checked i can tell you the man who was rescued suffered no injuries at all and his dog is going to be okay too. police are still looking for the robber who shot and killed a man on a remote hiking trail in red bluff. investigators say the robber shot two hikers friday after taking their money and belongings. 69 year old francis gregory died on the trail.and his hiking partner is still in the hospital with serious injuries. click it or ticket. the california highway patrol this weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the pioneering move by massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage. the first move of it's kind in the nation. while some are celebrating, many others are still fighting for equal rights. mary mueller reports. may 17, 2004, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. couples lined up in front of courthouses, eager to finally make their love official. fast-forward to 2014, and same- sex marriage is now legal in 17 states and in the district of columbia. "we've come a long way in 10 years, since that breakthrough win in massachusetts and couples began marrying." but despite increasing acceptance of same-sex relationships, couples across the country are still fighting for equal rights. utah placed a stay on same-sex parent adoptions friday night. the state's law banning same-sex marriage has been declared unconstitutional, but that court decision is facing appeals, so same sex marriages in the state are on hold for now. given that hold, the attorney general claims that decision needs to be resolved before ruling on adoption laws. conservative activists agree with the adoption stay. no matter how hard they try, two men can't be a mother and two women can't be a father. .while advocacy groups express frustration with the decision. "district judges were-- ordered the state to grant these adoptions to gay couples that were already married so to take that away is very hurtful and frustrating for families." also this week, two other states have placed stays on same-sex marriage. idaho and arkansas both put the marriages on hold just days after courts ruled against the states' constitutional bans. "i just pray the supreme court sees that, you know, we deserve equality, we desere to be treated equally. those decisions are currently awaiting appeals. i'm mary mueller reporting. the laws banning same-sex marriage in arkansas, idaho, utah, oklahoma, virginia, texas and michigan have been ruled unconstitutional. but changing them is put on hold pending appeals. it is windy out there today and cool as well. we did not even get out of the 50s today. despite the sunshine. we have even seen gusts topping 40 mi. per hour. temperatures around a day make it up to the '60s, similar to what we had yesterday. the warm spot is santa rosa with 79 degrees. we will continue see this when the in warm weather. here you see the golden gate bridge to, clear skies and a nice weather with very breezy temperatures. it was up to 46 m.p.h. today. it's been quite testy in the bay area and will remain breezy this evening with a potentially coming down this evening in to tomorrow night. tomorrow a weather system gets closer,, and will bring more clouds for the day. we will see the win the six conditions tomorrow as well. tuesday we even have a possibility for us under sy storm here we have monday morning we have clouds across the bay area with breaks of sunshine,. we will see more sun as we get to the afternoon with a few showers in north of santa rosa. as we going to tuesday the system gets even closer still. as we go into tuesday there could be sent wet weather *. it looks like it will be fairly light go. again we have some thunderstorms as a possibility, especially in the east bay and the north bay. it will warm up as we go through the rest of the week. but for tomorrow look for temperature is similar to what we had today. we will specially see seventies in the valley was, they warm up towards the. end of the. still to come. a terrified girl running to safety. to her rescue. a bay area bus! what she was running from. well its 2014 and if you don't know what time it is i'll let these servers give you a slight hint people behaving badly at bay to breakers yup it's the place where you need a sign to tell people no public urination and security to confiscate all the open containers hey there. did you select these things on purpose? not a color found nature. there's nothing wrong with tha. i can hear your arteries clogging. ok. no. this is tap water. i can't let you buy this. oh. crystal geyser please. crystal geyser. bottled at the mountain source. at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. [♪] welcoheyback. really? kiss your abs goodbye. cardiologist to check stand 1. crystal geyser alpine spring water? toucé. crystal geyser. always bottled right at the mountain source. now there is a reason why they don't want booze at bay to breakers reason number one people using other people houses as a place to relieve themselves on this street there is a sign asking people not to pee here at one point this guy showed up and decided to relieve himself but was stopped because well the sign people stopped him and this guy argued the minutia of the sign until one person told him he could use the street as a restroom for 50 dollars reason number two public drunkenness this girl was so drunk san francisco police had to escort he to the drunk tent where they got to kick it until they sobered up then there was this man who was so drunk he almost rolled down the steps, then he somehow stumbled over to this driveway and hung out then he finally got up and mad is way inside the gate of the same home where ke kicked it for a while, when that didn't work he decided to go home, except this isnt is home after getting kicked away from his fake home he somehow made it over to my kron 4 work suv where he played a game called up chuckaneer no visuals here bay to breakers never lets me down i have sooo much more to show you including wild animals referees and a few tree huggers ?? your peeing badly im peeing very badly you know what this bay to breakers is the best bay to breakers ever you might not want to sit by the trees yea you know soaking wet behind you someone pee on it that all they been doing peeing on all thoise trees thank you that why no one was sitting there at bay to breakers 2014 stanley roberts kron 4 news if you have a comment or story idea for stanley, e-mail us at 'people behaving badly' at kron- four-dot-com. coming up on kron 4 news at 8- 30. santa rosa turning to social media to help catch criminals. and it's working. we show you how! plus. a developing story we're san diego county fire crews still dealing with active fires. we bring you the latest from deal with three fires there. strong winds continue around the bay area for tomorrow and i will let you how long they stick around. around up now for a look at tonight's top stories. the annual bay to breakers race ran through san francisco today. 40-thousand runners - many in costume - enjoyed the day's festivites. the start of the race was delayed while equipment was installed before kickoff. geoffrey ken-ee-zee and diane johnson were the first man and woman to make it past the finish line. a santa rosa mother is out on bail tonight following an arrest for allegedly assaulting a boy at her children's elementary school. 30 year old delia garcia- bratcher was arrested friday at olivet elementary. after allegations that she grabbed a 12-year-old boy by the neck and threatened him. the sonoma county sheriff's office says the mother believed the boy has been bullying her daughter. the district attorney's office is expected to review the case tomorrow. officials say garcia-bratcher could face felony charges. sfpd had to be called out to fort funston this afternoon after a man got stuck on the side of a cliff. the fire chief tells kron 4 the man went after his dog and realized he could not get back to even ground crews were able to get him and the dog off the side of the cliff, both will be ok in another big story out of southern california. firefighting crews in san diego have had their work cut out for them this week. they've been battling several raging wildfires in the san diego area for days. only four fires are still burning.including three at camp pendleton marine corps base. indra petersons shows us how crews are taking to the air to fight the flames near camp pendleton. : "this is the airstrip marines used to battle these blazes. in all, they dropped a half a million gallons of water on 150 round trips. and we just went along for one of them." a wall of flames-- closing in on a marine airstrip. a military base under siege. "i watched as this thing marched from a half a mile away almost to within 200 meters of us. and i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached." enter the third marine aircraft wing and 22 helicopters ready to battle the flames. on this flight. we're headed for a lake on the base. with a 300-gallon bucket in tow. our chopper is guided by a crew chief. manning a door in the chopper floor-- known as a "hell hole." from our window-- you can see the delicate balance as other choppers lower toward the lake. our pilot does the same-- lowering the bucket till it's submerged. once it's full-- we head for the fire line. : "right now, we're flying directly over the fire line. you can actually see how badly burned this area is after these fires." again, using the "hell hole" -- and a lot of precision-- the crew chief spots the right moment to make the drop. on his signal-- the water is released. in all, these choppers made over 900 drops. at the fire's peak-- captain bradley gibson pulled it off with zero visibility. "you see your lead aircraft go into the smoke and he just disappears. you don't know if he's going straight ahead, you don't know if he's coming out to the left. you don't know if he has his bucket dropped off or not. the best you can do is hope." the smoke-- so intense it cut off the main water supply on the base-- forcing crews to look elsewhere. this video shows a marine chopper hovering over the pacific ocean. "it was reassuring to see my neighborhood." these marines-- don't just fight fires on camp pendleton. but in nearby communities. in some cases-- water drops like this are to protect even their own homes. "you knew, you had confidence and you know i could call home, call the wife and say, 'hey, our neighborhood looks good.'" they're water drops these marines couldn't make in 2003. when the massive cedar wildfire killed 20 people. today, new policies have united the marines with local firefighters. "so, rather than having to go back to washington, d.c. to launch aircraft to fight these fires, the local commanders here can make the determination that there's an immediate threat to life and property, and we had our aircraft airborne inside of hours." immediate action. helping marines save property and lives. in this case, those lives. were their own. : "so you just went along on one ride, but in all these marines have spent 250 hours in the air fighting these blazes. it helped them get the upper hand on this fire, the cooler weather here is only expected to help even further. all evacuation orders have been lifted for all areas has been lifted. and officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. fortunately the fire danger is not as bad this week as we had last week. we do have some very hot and dry winds from last week. but this has changed this week to be off on shore winds coming from off the ocean. these winds are not only cooler, but also have higher humidity. that reduces fire danger. you can see the winds coming off the ocean here on our. live oushot. you can see gusty winds elsewhere in the bay area as well. look for a mixture of clouds and sunshine as we have a weather system affecting us, we could have some showers in the north bay. back in the bay area. two cars were damaged when a person smashed in windows during a car break in. a couple in suisun city says it happened early friday in the area of village drive and highway 12. the couple says the back window of their ford focus and the driver side window of this chevy truck were smashed. the couple did file a report with suisun police. but no word on what was stolen during the break in. the santa rosa police department in sonoma county. has launched a new, most wanted list and they have already made a pair of arrests thanks to tips from the public. kron 4's charles clifford spoke with detectives about the new program. on may 3rd, the santa rosa police department launched its first ever most wanted list. the list includes sex offenders, murder suspects and convicted felons who are wanted for parole violations. detective robert reynolds helped set it up. >> to encourage citizens to come forward to assist us in finding wanted individuals. in less than a fortnight, two suspects from list have already been captured. valentino kumar, who was wanted on a felony warrant for probation violation, was arrested by sonoma county sheriff's deputies last week after they saw his picture on the list. and then this past tuesday, clark james grimwood, who had charges, theft and assault ,was spotted inside this best buy store in santa rosa. so he didn't have a physical address to go find him. so santa rosa's most wanted is perfect for this. the employee recognized him in the store and he was arrested. following the arrests, the police department placed two new names on the most wanted list. both are men who are wanted on multiple felony warrants for sexually assaulting minors. >>i hope it keeps getting bigger. new ideas. really getting the community involved and we're looking forward to aprehending more individuals. in santa rosa, charles c lifford kron 4 news. over twenty are dead and 24- thousand without homes in serbia. severe weather conditions are to blame. record breaking rainfall in the country brought the amount of rain they would see in two months. in two days. water levels are predicted to rise. officials say they don't know what will happen if the sava river, near belgrade, reaches 22-feet. authorities estimate that ninety percent of belgrade is flooded. russia and israel are providing support to the country. over ten-thousand troops are working on relief efforts. -- severe flooding across serbia has prompted the evacuation of at least 24,300 people, the red cross said sunday. dragan radovanovic, president of the serbian branch of the red cross, said the number of people affected by the high water is actually much larger. many people stayed in the houses or apartments, one rescuer told reuters. swiss voters are shooting down an increase in their minimum wage. union organizations in the country were backing a proposal that would be almost eighteen u- s dollars. a preliminary tally shows that almost eighty percent of the country voted against it. their concern is it would stop job creation and make it difficult for people entering the workforce. switzerland doesn't have a set minimum wage. the swiss are known for above average rates of employment growth and short working hours.swiss voters reject minimum wage so what we're looking for is a way to "plus" our accounting firm's mobile plan. and "minus" our expenses. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business. run the numbers on that. well, unlimited talk and text, with ten gigabytes of data for the five of you would be... one-seventy-five a month. with a year of high-speed internet, free. ah, "free" is not deductible! i smell audit! i smell savings... it's a bus driver to the rescue california drivers will be happy to hear gasoline prices have been dropping. the average price of gas has dropped three and a half cents in the past two weeks. that brings the average price of gas to 3-69 a gallon. analysts say supplies are meeting demand. and prices are likely to continue dropping. here's a look at gas prices around the bay. you can fill up in san jose for 4-15 a gallon. in oakland.only slightly higher at 4-16 a gallon. and in san francisco. the average price for gas is 4-27. speaking of sfo here is a time lapse from the airport earlier this evening. you see mainly clear skies with some light cloud coverage. there is an airport weather warning because of the strong winds. you can see the flag blowing around there on your screen. here at the bay bridge is mostly clear. is the satellite. we have the storm system to the north that will impact us tomorrow and on tuesday. it may produce some showers up their, with of light rain possible. from 6 a.m. we have a lot of high clouds filtering out the sunshine. we will continue to see those clubs throughout the day with sunshine mixed in. as we continue throughout we may have more showers in the north bay. the system continues to make its way south bend into tuesday. here we have midnight with more clubs going into tuesday. we have a mixture of clouds and sunshine. in tuesday afternoon we have mixed showers in the bay area with changing temperatures at the--as we have on stable system moving in. we have more sunshine through the week and breedings inland going up to the upper 80s, with seventies by the bay. it's even warmer on the weekend with the possibility of 90's and 80's by the bay shore. a lost engagement ring. turns up in a most unusual spot. how it got fished up. next. how it got fished up. next. ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at universal studios hollywood. here is an example of what a text 911 would look like on the computer screen of the 911 operator who handles it. after someone texts 911 with their emergency the operator would text them back with instructions or questions it's a great idea often we are in areas with spotty cell phone service a text message will often go through when a call will not it requires just a tiny amount of a signal to go through. although the carriers have committed to supporting 911 texting in their service areas, that doesn't mean that text-to- 911 will be available everywhere. emergency call centers, called psaps , are the bodies in charge of implementing text messaging in their areas. these psaps are under the jurisdiction of their local states and counties, not the fcc, which governs the carriers. the fcc has listed out the cities and counties that are ready for text 911 and not one bay area county or city is up and running with it but as you can see here there are lots of other states and cities that are up and running. right now if you text 911 you will get a bounce back telling you to call 911. so spread the word i'm worried that teens will here about this and think they can text 911 here in the bay area. when they can't. gabe slate kron 4 news. and if you'd like to connect you can add him on facebook, follow him on twitter. or email - slate-at-kron4-dot- another major media merger was announced today. a-t-and-t says they're buying directv in a deal worth almost 50 billion dollars. if approved by regulators.the merger will continue a wave of consolidation in the t-v and telecommunications industries. the move also gives a-t-and t a larger based of video subscribers. and increases its ability to compete against compact and time warner cable.who merged in february. the companies say they expect to following a government review. a contra costa county bus driver is being called a hero. for putting himself between an aggressive pit bull and two teenagers. kron 4's maureen kelly talked to the man, who describes the scary encounter. and explains why he felt compelled to intervene. the bus driver got emotional thinking about the two teens he helps get out of harm's way. newell was gonna get bit i. new that and. i knew i was probably can get--probably going to die. you can see it happening here in a distance. craig says the girl was practically paralyzed with fear. > > she kept saying its and a bite me it's gonna bite me. and i told her that dog is going to bite me before it bites you. craig put himself between the dog and the kids trying to scare. it scare > > it was snapping at me in trying to bite me. i just felt, man this is a bad situation. i just kept feeling adrenalin thinking, it's going to be me or the dog. while the dog was distracted employees at the library got the kids in the library away from the dock. after the fact craigs says he is just a few men not a hero. he would expect anybody to do the same. for his same the dog's owner told the contra costa county animal services. that the pit bull slipped off its leash. an investigator for the agency says, this is the second incident involving that particular animal. both because of aggressive behavior. the dog is back with its owner, but both incidents are being looked into by the county. a diamond ring that was dropped in the ocean at jacksonville beach, florida one year ago has been recovered. the man who found it managed to track down the rightful owners. scott johnson has the story. eric and courtney vidrine were wading in the water off jacksonville beach last year when it happened. she was reaching down, the ring fell off finger into tide and we desperately thrashed at water, and we knew it was gone. her engagement ring dropped in the water and they never found it. for me and that's why i remember it so vividly. i told people at tiffany's, it was june 1st, 2013. i knew everything, like every minute of what happened because it was so horrible. they went on with life thinking it would never be found until just a few days ago. when david sielaff was out with his metal detector looking in the sand and found something. i was using metal detector, and it was high tide. at first he found what's called a fishing sinker but when he went over it again he dug deeper and that's when he realized he found something a lot more valuable. i'm david, i'm eric, i'm courtney. we can't thank you enough. we were there as the couple met sielaff for the first time. tried to find you all and eventually with help of staff at tiffany and that's why we're here today. we can't thank you enough, we're so shocked. after sielaff discovered the ring he found a serial number printed on it the company tiffany's made it and contacted the couple. they thanked sielaff with a bottle of champaign and a card for not taking their symbol of marriage and hocking it at the nearest pawn shop. we thought it would be found eventually, but not this soon and certainly not by someone as honest as you are. i can't thank you enough. i really can't. a superstar couple releases a movie trailer for an upcoming concert tour. jay-z and beyonce released a trailer promoting their upcoming 'on the run' tour. they portray a pair of outlaws running from authorities. and plenty of other famous faces make cameos in the short -- jake gyllenhaal, sean penn, don cheadle, emmy rossum, and blake lively are all present. this tour marks the first time the couple have co-headlined a show. it kicks off in miami june 25. in other tour news, sir paul mccartney has been forced to postpone part of his "out there" tour. the former beatle came down with a virus and was forced to cancel several tokyo performances. those shows are expected to be re-scheduled. you can see his show here in the u-s beginning june 14th in lubbock, texas. the world's greatest action heroes are adding their voices to the effort to rescue the abducted nigerian schoolgirls. cast members of the "the expendables 3" held "bring back our girls" signs sunday as they walked the red carpet at the cannes film festival in france. the stars include sylvester stallone, arnold schwarzenegger, harrison ford, mel gibson, antonio banderas, wesley snipes and jason statham. at the box office this weekend. godzilla stomped into the number one spot. the creature feature easily demolished the competition. seth rogen and zac effron's neighbors dropped down to number two for its second weekend out. and the superhero flick - the amazing spiderman 2 rounded out the top 3. some tips on how to woo a pretty girl. from a young guy who manages to catch a fly ball - and catch the attention of a nearby fan without giving up the prize. we explain - next. these are the hands a pediatrician. these are pioneering advances in heart surgery. and these are developing groundbreaking treatments for cancer. they're the hands of the nation's top doctors. kaiser permanente doctors. and though they are all different, they work together on a single mission: saving lives. discover how we are advancing medicine at kp.org join us, and thrive. the amgen cycling tour of california wrapped up today in thousand oaks. bradley wiggins of the british team "sky" won the eight day race. the tour covered over seven hudred miles of the state in a tour-de-france style competition. last week cyclists rode from san jose up to the mt. diablo. the play of the day at the texas rangers game against the toronto blue jays saturday actually happened in the stands. a toronto player hit a foul ball and the third base coach tossed it to a young fan. now, watch closely at what this clever kid does. he turns around and hands a ball to a young woman sitting behind him -- but, it's not the ball that was hit by the toronto player. the game ball is still tucked away in his glove. very well played. he comes off smelling like a rose, and goes home with the game ball. but now on national tv where, see his trick. was he really that clever? and for all your bay area sports action check out sports night live with jason appelbaum and bip roberts tonight at 9 p-m right after the news. great day for baseball, except it was a little bit windy. it was a little bit windy with gusts over 40 m.p.h. today if. it'll be windy for tomorrow as well with some extra clouds tomorrow. temperatures in the '60s by the day. there may be showers just about everywhere on tuesday but rather light showers. we are parched for wednesday and the rest of the week. look for warmer temperatures the rest of the week. that's it for the kron 4 news at 8. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news developments at kron4.com or download one of our mobile apps. our next newscast is tonight at 11 o'clock. see you then. goodnight. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. are those thrusters burning? that's a negative. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very 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ArkansasUnited-statesCaliforniaSan-diegoSan-diego-countyRussiaBelgradeSerbia-general-WashingtonDistrict-of-columbiaSerbia rallying on the right to protest. >> but first: a lynching. in the capitol of the central african republic. it's a sign the sectarian divide in the central african republic is becoming ever more dangerous. al jazeera as well as other media was there, when it took place. and we warn you, some people will find this video disturbing. it began when a mob heard that two men who were suspected of being part of another incident of sectarian violence, were nearby. the mob found the men, set upon them, killed them and then dragged the bodies through the streets burning them. the men were muslims, the mob was christian. >> we will continue to do this for as long as muslims will go on. >> barnaby phillips is in the capitol. bangui. he joins me live. a dreadful example of mob violence barnaby but there were scenes on the streets in the morning. tell us about those. >> well, it was dreadful what happened, steven and maybe what's shocking particularly is that this was in broad daylight. in the center of bangui. as you said, two men who were accused by a christian crowd of having been accomplices to the killing of a christian man the day before, obviously there's no way we can verify this, were hunted down, hacked to pieces. chopped up if you like and set on fire at a prominent round-about in the city. whilst this was going on, french peace keepers arrived and then cameroonian soldiers arrived and the crowd dispersed to some extent. butter it was still extremely hostile and volatile for some time. some shots were fired. we were warned not to take pictures there. and told to go away. it is dreadful, but i'm afraid it's just an example of the kind of thing that has been happening virtually on a daily basis, and not just in ga bangui. we've had reports of serious incidents in the towns and the northeast of the country as well. >> let's move away from the violence if we can barnaby and move towards a political process. the transitional president is due to be chosen tomorrow, fair amount of debate about just how much if any authority he's going to have. >> yes, and i don't think it would be too much, too realistic to put great hope in whichever figure emerges. nevertheless it has been whittled down to two names. there are former sons of central african republic, that would be a warning if we had hoped for a clean break from the corrupt and disastrous politics that this country has suffered from for so many years, those hopes may not be realized. nonetheless we'll have to wait and see, in theory the selection will be made tomorrow morning, that's monday morning here in bangui and then this transitional president he or she should lead the country towards elections which are meant to take place in early 2015. i mean i think anyone who's been here finds the concept of free and fair elections, just absurd. there's no infrastructure, the state has broken down, there's absolutely no law and order. it's quite obvious if things are to get better here there has to be an enormous humanitarian and indeed security input from the rest of the world. the rest of africa and wealthier parts of the world as well. >> that's the question, whether the rest of the world, and the rest of africa is going to sit up and take notice of c.a.r. punch up of negotiations are those reports true? >> well, it's been a fraught process, steven, as to the extent to which whether europe if you like will come the central african republic's rescue if you will there is an important meeting in brussels. there are hopes that there will be some sort of commitment for sending more troops. let me give you an idea of the numbers. there's a roundup to 5,000 of african troops. and some french troops. that's a drop in the ocean of a vast country. whether they will be helped by more troops, it is fit to say that is a sincere hope of the beleaguered generals on the ground. >> thanks barnaby. south sudan's army saying it is ready to take the important town of malacal. keeps changing hands, the conflict of south sudan has been fought for weeks, between forces of president kiir and former vice president. >> nothing is left standing, everything is burned. i'm going to introduce the governor of jongui state. describe what you have seen today. >> after going around, found lot of damage, lot of destruction. all the government offices are diswroid. they have destroyed all the computers. all the documents are scattered. wurnd. the shops are all broken. all the banks are broken. all the houses of the civilian are all looted and there is nothing good in the town. so i believe the people come back to the places in the town they will have a very difficult life. >> the pakistani taliban, worst strike on the military since the taliban leader was killed last september and puts doubts on peace talks. the city of banu close to pakistan's tribal belt. >> the men were on their way when their convoy was attacked. the soldiers were part of a military buildup in the region following u.s. drone strikes. a statement issued by the pakistani taliban, called it revenge. to his right is massud the taliban leader who was killed in a drone strike in november. the taliban statement reads: the deposit of pakistan with the help of the americans first killed raman and then our leader massu drveg. the pakistani government is not serious about holding peace talks or else it wouldn't have undergone this attack. the taliban says it killed the mern over the network's negative -- men over the network's negative. one of the groups came on the same network and said this: >> translator: we attacked the express news team because the network is involved in propaganda against us. if this continues then so will our attacks. >> reporter: a vigil was held in karachi. violence is a clear sign the taliban rejects the state's offer of peace talks. >> i have come here to express my anger on those people who says that we want to the negotiate with those terrorists who have accepted the responsibility of the murder of workers. i think the government should make a difference, very clearly, and announce it, that what is their policy? >> the fact that they want to talk with the militants who are just not prepared, and instead of the state showing its strength, it is completely exposing its weakness and helplessness. >> the government says it still wants to hold talks with the taliban. but public anger over its inaction to deal with the violence is growing. ali mustafa, al jazeera. >> there have been clashes on the streets of the ukrainian capitol kiev. more on that story and more from europe, let's cross to mary anne. >> thousands have converged on independence square in kiev. firing tear gas at demonstrators. protests have rocked here for more than two months here, sparked by victor yanukovych's decision to not create ties with european union. >> first of all, we reject, voting by hand, secondly we declare early presidential elections. and we will hold a vote to support this initiative. the members of the central election commission have to be changed in order for this election to be fair and clear. >> well, jennifer glasse joins us from kiev live now. jennifer, are clashes still ongoing? >> reporter: well, right here in independence square it is very peaceful. about 400 meters that way i just saw a couple of flash grenades go off. nataly klichko just led a demonstration, they have set a bus on fire. the police are throwing flash grenades. the protestors are throwing fire crackers. dragged some demonstrators off from the cordon. pretty serious confrontation going off right now. earlier today, tens of thousands of protestors gathered in this square. a few thousand of them have now moved off and are clark with police. they are around this square hundreds of riot police in buses, trying to keep the protest contained to indians independence square. >> jennifer, the protest began peacefully on sunday, can you give me a sense of how many protestors this large number are involved in these scustles with police and the d rks -- scuffles with police and who that tends to mean for protestors? >> there has been a big divide here in this square. some protestors are frustrated after eight weeks they've seen really no progress here and they feel that they have to take things 52 their own hands -- into their own hands. opposition leaders tried earlier today to dissuade them from doing it. nataly klichko stood and talked to some of these more radical supporters, quite a few minutes, trying to convince them not to march on parliament, it isn't even in session on sunday evening in kiev. that isn't the issue. for the first time today the crowds actually booed and jeered the opposition leaders and called for real leadership, a single leader. there have been three opposition leaders at the head of all of these protests for the last eight weeks. and they want one solid leader to emerge and the lack of a solid leader has also meant a lack of a real strategy, the lack of a real plan here. and so protestors who have been spending days and nights in the bitter, bitter cold winter are very frustrated. they want to see some plan. and of course the stakes have been raised higher, when the law that president yanukovych signed on friday, that severely limits human rights and speech here, prompts the feeling that the police will try and clear the square here. >> jennifer glasse, thank you. that's its for me in london, there's much more coming up in the news hour. >> i'm rory talens in london. sunday service with a difference, george isn't invited. >> that's what it's looking like from london. but also on the news hour from doha. taking a stand genetics domestic worker abuse, are workers burned beaten and tortured. details from the australian open coming up. a spokesman for iraqi ministry of defense is saying armed forces have launched an offensive against terrorists in the city of ramadi. omarar al sala reports. >> tribal fighters in ramadi, western iraq. the armed forces backed by tribal gunmen known as their awakening councils, al qaeda linked of iraq and the levant, i.s.i.l. prime minister says they are eunteunited behind him. >> forcing al qaeda to come out so that we can strike them. >> but this is not how these fighters and many residents of anbar see it. took up arms to defend their areas, antiprotest cite in ramadi, islamic state of iraq and the levant were able to control parts of ramadi, they are still present in a number of areas in the two cities. sunnies started their anti-government protest in december 2012 in six provinces. accusing the shiite government of secon sectarianism and marginalizing them. that's why the people of fallujah and ramadi say they refuse to allow the army to enter their areas. the government then said the protest movement was infiltrated by al qaeda and members of the former regime. iraq's crisis is also linked to the war in syria. al qaeda groups come to border with syria which allows them free movement. critics of prime minister maliki says he is using this fight for political reensd to boost his -- reasons to boost his image. >> three palestinians have been seriously wounded. a charge in the area was also hit by shrapnel from the rocket. those hit were responsible for recent rocket attacks. former egyptian president mohamed morsi has been charged with insulting the judiciary. he also faces allegation in connection with the killing of protestors, haz-mat and ha mast. joining a terrorist group allegations which al jazeera say are fabricated. the other two journalists are from our sister stations. they have been detained for the past five months. the free syrian army has responded to the peace talks. the fsa says bin laden must play no future in syria's future. >> we support any solution, that fulfills the syrian people's demands. we support the brothers going to geneva. bashar al-assad and his government should resign. humanitarian corridors must be open. >> orthodox christians in eastern europe has been celebrating epiphany. let's go back to marion in london. >> yes, epiphany celebrates the baptism of jesus in the river jordan. to symbolically wash away one's sins. not everyone of course believes a dip in icy water can cleanse their sins. atheism is widespread in europe. one in five people in the european union, according to a recent poll, does not believe in a life force. benefits of organized religion, rory went to an atheist service in london. >> they are expecting a full house. the band doing a run through and making sure there's enough seating for the 400-strong congregation. some have come a very long way. >> i've come from australia. i think the sense of community is wonderful. and i'm really looking forward to the service. >> i came here on vaca, it funds really fun, really exciting, i love the whole thing that church will give you, but i'm not religious. >> reporter: for anyone who's been to a christian church service there's much familiar here, songs readings and community, it's just that god hasn't been invited. there is a palpable buzz to this assembly and i think what that shows is despite the criticisms that have been leveled against it, maybe it's just a glorified karaoke session, but there's a sense for people of low religious sensibility to come together. >> this is the perfect answer to the movement's critics according to the spokesman. >> there are going to be another 100 in september. it's not just the service. it is the book clubs. it's the volunteering, it's people's lives being changed. it's amazing when you get people who want to celebrate life, people will move mountains. >> sam nightingale is enthusiastic but says the movement has a lot of catching up to do before it can compete with religion. >> talking about christian faith and church, a lot of time building up wonderful buildings and ceremony. this has been going on for a year. >> looking around the audience, the appeal hasn't spread too much between the fairly affluent white educated urban base. that is something there organizers will have to address if it's to have any enduring mass appeal but they're spreading the word and enjoying the opportunity. rory jerens, al jazeera london. the number of people gathered in that particular assembly, obviously this isn't something that is widespread but nevertheless as we were hear from rory's report there, gatherings like this book clubs it seems something gathering in appeal at least. >> what people often wants are the same things that religion provides. a sing along, homily, whatever. some people who identify themselves as atheist, say we want that, not the religion bit. it is a tiny portion of people as already been said, it's very much white, educated middle class. i suspect it will say that way for no other reason, british people and maybe also americans don't like to identify themselves as atheist because it sounds a bit negative. this is actually aiming to get rid of this negative connotation. >> it can be anyone that just wants to get together and feel a sense of connectedness, a sense of community. >> i think that's right. the person who actually co-founded this, she was an agnostic. they use the term atheist, i don't know to what degree they will be able to have a philosophy of mere existence in life. if people enjoy this sort of thing that's up to them. when i go to church it's not just the beautiful music or the wonderful homilies and the wonderful community, it's fundamentally the relationship to christ. and that's something fundamentally missing from that. >> we can't be totally sure about that can you? you used to be an atheist yourself. you must relate to what many of these people do, i guess. just to enjoy a gathering of like minded people. >> to a certain extent. perhaps i'm a bit too british to have a sing along -- think a sing-along is attractive. perhaps my sunday mornings are for sleep rather than going out. if they enjoy it that's fine. but the fundamental core of religion that people want and need is our relationship with god and that's what fundamentally missing from this. >> peter williams, good to get your take on this. i'll be back in a little while with more from europe including: >> i'm lawrence lee in hungary. this ridicule lil village lost up to 50 people to the nazis during the second world war. plus we have a snoop around the multimillion dollar center the u.s. has been using to spy on just about everybody. and jamaica looks set to return to the winter olympics. we'll hear from the captain of their bobsled team, in sport. and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... >> parkinson's forced his wife to type his novels. >> not only was i typing badly, but i was hallucinating... >> now, a revolutionary proceedure is giving is giving this best selling author a second chance >> it 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around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> welcome back, a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. two muslim men have been lynched for killings in bangui for latest example of sectarian violence in the country. the pakistani taliban says it's behind an attack which killed at least 22 soldiers. attacked happened inside an army compound. the bomb inside a car carrying security forces. thousands of pro-eu protestors in the ukraine. the government's refusal to sign a trade deal, the government has instead signed trade deals with russia. thousands of people have marched on hong kong's police hazardous to demand better conditions. an indonesian made was maltreated by her employer. thousands of people fed up with domestic worker abuse in hong kong have marched around police headquarters. they want to make sure there are no more cases like this. ariana who returned home to indonesia this week bruised and battered. she says she was beaten, burns and tortured by her employer for eight months in hong kong. >> translator: based on our medical records she was subjected to intense heat. most of the bruises are on the legs face and arms and she's in very weak condition. >> workers half of them from indonesia, by law, all foreign helpers have to live with their employers. and indonesiaians are treated like ghosts. >> i would say slaifs like and vulnerable to bruce and vulnerable to exploitation. >> agencies say they were not aware of the problems until she returned home. the police accused the agency of not providing enough evidence. >> justice for domestic workers! >> reporter: another woman came forward saying she had been abused by the same employer. >> they beat me really hard. sometimes they would use their hands or feet or feather duster. >> the government promised to step up their monitoring of agencies. they'll find a family distraught at what happened and a woman barely recognizable to the one who moved to hong kong hoping for a better living. caroline malone, al jazeera. flooding has forced more than 30,000 others to flee from their homes. many parts of the city is inundated. most of those who died either drown or were electrocuted. blasts moments apart happened at the victory monument. landmark, antigovernment protestors have blocked more than a week ago. veronica pedrosa is there. >> victory monument, one of the many intersections in bangkok, there is a stage for antigovernment protestors to deliver speeches and hold music. and it was at lunch time just behind the main stage when a first explosive device went off, causing a crowd that was bust bustling around looking for food. that's when a second explosive device went off. there are lots of police now investigating the scene. forensic scientists looking for physical clues here that might lead them to who's behind this attack and others. because this is the latest in a series of bombings and shootings that are pretty minor, however, they are causing an atmosphere of fear about coming to these protests. about what lies ahead in thailand's political future. >> in many parts of europe economic crises has fueled resentment against immigrants and other ethnic minority groups particularly the roma of eastern europe. let's go to mariana in london. >> they are also known as rowe i but many refer to themselves as gypsies. now europe's largest minority, also found in canada, the u.s. and south america. reached a peak during world war ii, in 1935, roma living if nazi germany was stripped of their citizenship and sent to concentration camps. today the persecution continues and they remain on the fringe of the society. in the first of a three part series, lawrence lee reports, can the roma of eastern europe integrate? >> this is athe pretty town in northern slovakia. plenty to see for the tourists, who don't look at the local roma that wand around looking for food in the bins. >> they are not working. >> nf sloenough sloa slovacs thy people look at them like monkeys in the zoo. we're okay says this old man until the whites get drunk and come here. on every level, these people are under attack. this happens over and over again. roam arizona communities are forced way beyond the boundaries of the town but are accused of not wanting to integrate. they consider themselves very moderate but look like a bunch of fa fascists. the slovacs paid the nazis to get rid of them. ula and yosef, having a half roma baby. >> better i will have i don't know, man with dark skin who will not drink who will be kind to me, than the white one who will drink or beat me or something like that. >> sanctioned by the public move, was by that church. here the roma people are offered all sorts of support. helps them integrate in social as well as spiritual ways. they made me more confident, they have shown me even though i'm gypsy i can move forward. they prayed for me. if you want to know what's really possible, look at this model village, in southwestern germany. they produced so much food last year that they took tons of it off to the poor in the capital budapest. most surprising of all, this is where the roma were taken tot death camps in germany. in 1942. >> our philosophy is that hungary is not black or white. hungary is beautiful because it is colorful. everybody wants to be human. >> there are few examples of this but one who says the roma and the europeans cannot integrate, cannot be true. it's the fact of believing it to be true. lawrence lee, al jazeera. can't work or won't work? lawrence lee looks at unemployment and attitudes, from the roma. that's the news from london now, back to doha. >> welcome back to doha. you know, president obama, proposed steps to collect data by the national security agency. but those steps don't go far enough. rob reynolds reports, activists far from washington are taking matters into their own hands. >> reporter: if you have wondered where the national security agency stores all that data it collects, well, you are looking at it. this is the utah data center in bluffdale, a 92,000 square meter complex completed last september at ocost of $1.5 billion. robert banford has studied the nsa for decades. >> it is designed to hold information, the phone calls, the e-mail, the metadata, everything it collects, it needs a place to store it and that's what bluffdale is for. you can sort of think of it as nsa's external hard drive. >> reporter: the nsa declined a request for an interview. but in bluffdale population about 8,000 most people don't have any qualms about their neighbor, the spy agency. >> it's an important mission. they get information from around the world. and my understanding that they study it here. >> if you can't trust your government, to do the proper thing, what can you trust? >> but in the wake of former nsa contractor edward snowden's revelations, a nationwide movement is building to reig ren the nsa using constitutional powers in the state. connor is president of the utah think tank. >> state's and cities are not required to help the government. if we wanted to we could oppose what the nsa is doing. >> reporter: here in utah the nsa's foes think they've found its ultimate weakness. come up with an audacious yet perfectly legal plan to cripple the state of the equipment. they want to turn off the water supply. to keep the equipment cool, it needs gallons of water a day. legally, utah could stop the flow and the result: >> if the nsa did not have water it could not cool its servers and could not operate its servers. could not mine and store and sift through all that data. >> activists plan to put a no cooperation with the nsa bill before the legislature in the near future. similar bills have been proposed in other states, including california and washington. robert reynolds, al jazeera, bluffdale, utah. >> could another mini ice age be on the way? the sun has reached its solar mamaximum. instead of spewing out flares, the sun is strangely quiet. scientists say it hasn't done that in over a century. there was a similar silent period in the 17th industry which coincided with bitterly cold winters. explaining all of this is aastronomer seth sostack, with seti. >> there were very few sun spots. this is as you say the sun's peak of activity, and it's like a restaurant downtown on a saturday night. you expect activity and if you don't get it something's wrong. well, the sun is quiet but it might, yes, it might result in very strict winters in europe. because europe's weather is dependent on the gulf stream. and that's you know, that's a high altitude jetstream of air. up in the stratosphere that heads over the atlantic and influences the wealth in europe. the reduced activity on the sun results in a reaction of the ultimate sproilultraviolate lig. causing arctic air to plunge down, and skate on the canals and rivers, which happened in the late 17th century. the chances this would happen in europe are maybe 1 in 10, probably no more than that. this is peak of the solar cycle, you expect solar flares, big storms on the sun which can have deleterious effects on the earth as well, that is not happening now but of course that could change. we don't understand the details of how the sun's activity is regulated. it depends on these churning motions below the surface. in about five to 6 billion years yes it will happen, the sun will run out of fuel, it will begin to expand, it will get a thousand times brighter than it already is, boiling away the oceans, ruining your day. the ultimate fate of the earth is to spiral into the sun and get burned up. but that's 5 to 6 billion years off. >> that's good news. why diners in china are shying away from shark fins. australian open, details with joan in a moment. >> a time to enter the world of sport. and jo will take you through it. >> steven, thank you. we start with a huge upset at the australian open. serena williams have been knocked out of the are tournament in melbourne. she came against ana ivanovic. winning two sets to one, ending williams run of 25 consecutive match wins to reach the finals. >> i kept swinging and i really believed in it, to have that victory it's amazing. we all know what kind of tournament she is and when we were starting the match we were talking about all her grand slam totals, it was quite impressive. >> i guess the secret is out, i obviously wasn't hitting the way i normally would hit, not moving the way i would normally hit, making a lot of errors i wouldn't normally make, in the last couple of years. but it's okay, i know for a fact i can play so much better than what i did today. >> noaa vanovak djokovic dispatd 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. on to the course of the finals. barcelona will be looking to put daylights between themselves and two other rivals. real madrid bettered 5-nil on saturday. andy richardson reports. >> all layered up and ready for yet another world class outing. christian reynaldo didn't take long to live up to his world class status. bettered this time out. renaldo looks capable of beating on his own. but has one or two teammates to call on as well. outfoxoutfoxing stefan anderson. the contest was all but over by half time. benzamar, making it 3-nil. actual a step ahead of bet bett. renaldo was super-juiced, final goal of the game, dismissive finish, it ended 5-nil. lowcarlo angeloti's team. keep up the pressure if they manage to pick up three points against avia in the late game. quest to qualify for the champions league, up 2-nil in the first 20 minutes but fought back to tie the game. sanchez scoring the crucial equalizer. in english premier league, totnam beat swanseathrough3-1. it's totenham's third win in a row. they play manchester united. pablo lorazobal has won the aabu dhabi open. birdie on the last the first victory in over two years. lifetime bans over match fixing, the players from several companies are holding a tribunal. >> the international cricket council's anticorruption council is hearing arguments. it's the biggest domestic sporting event in this country by far. those who are found guilty could face lifetime banning from the game. among those accused is english cricket player darren stevenson. stevens. he has tearfully admitted to the media that he has done a few bad things. eventually becoming the captain of the national team. the whole thing has left a sour taste for fans i in bangladesh. indian league, seems it cannot keep their hands clean. >> third test in chaja. they close day 4133 to 5. lead of 220 runs with five wicts iwicket cetera atwickets at han. check out aljazeera.com/sports. let us know how you like our new look. the portland trail blazers beat the dallas mavericks, trailed early, the pacers seized control by the earned of the first quarter and led for whole game. paul george was the star of the show. mvp bagged 36 points, pacers cruise to their fourth win in a row, final score 106 to 92. a bobsledding team from jamaica looks to be heading to the sochi winter olympics. the two man team has qualified but funding remains a serious problem. they need to raise $80,000 to cover travel and equipment costs. it will be the first time jamaica has competesince 2006. he says he was inspired to return to the sport partly by a movie made about jamaica's four man team who were a representative of their country in calgary in 1998. >> first when i get into retirement i said, you know, a part of my life is gone. and you know i sat down and i was thinking about it a lot. and i know, keep watching the movie, cool running, over and over again, on television. and it brings back so much inspiration to my life, you know? and so much thought. you know, it pushed way down into me. and knowing that jamaica has so much of the best athlete in the world. we know for a fact on the 2002 game we used to have the fastest start on ice. we didn't have the thing to win an olympic medal. the thing is that's what that really pushes me out of retirement. it is a funding problem from the beginning of the season and we really scrambled through and get through all this qualification and up to until today we're still scrambling to get to sochi. i'm really happy about it. you never want to say you're going to win an olympic medal. the thing is this sport is so close it is like a hundredth of a second, two, 3-hundreds of a second. you know for a fact you train for four years and you can combine all of this training together and if you go out there with your time to slide on the ice and execute it, the result will come. so we all -- we going to approach this olympics as the underdog, because the world know what the jamaican team is cable of doing. >> that's all the sports for today, steven. >> all right jo. cool running indeed. a government ban on a controversial delicacy at state functions is now being adopted by some restaurants and hotels. >> any attempt to document the product is met with stiff resistance. brutal nature of shark-finning and the sheer number that are killed, shark fin is considered by chinese one of the eight treasured foods from the sea. until recently it was served at state functions weddings and business difference as a sign of wealth and prosperity. but the government banned the delicacy at state functions and that has had a profound effect. china's ministry of commerce says the ban has led to a decline in shark fin consumption by as much as 70%. that's hit traders and restaurateurs hard. major asian distribution like china and hong kong. the trade has been decimated. >> translator: in the recent times the sale volume dropped all off. people are more concerned about environmental protection. it has dropped about 30% compared with previous years. >> while the trade isn't illegal in hong kong it's about to become less profitable. in mainland china local restaurant owners are also losing their taste for shark fin soup. >> translator: we have stopped selling shark fin in our restaurants. it's too brutal for the animals if we continue to sell the shark fin. we hope to arouse more social awareness among our customers to do so. >> scientists estimate 100 million sharks were killed for their trade, earning the trade more than $1 billion. government ban and further support from restaurants and hotels could save the species. >> the ban mass contributed to the shark fin sales drop in china. the number will continue to decline if the situation remains. >> shark advocates are taking advantage of the government ban, with a new social media educational campaign in china over the lunar new year holiday. they say if they don't act now, the gains made in the last six months could be lost if the government continues its cost-cutting measures. craig gleason, al jazeera, beijing. >> stay tuned. i'll be fieding yo guiding you r half hour of news in just a few seconds. >> everybody's different here... >> for students at the esteemed international high school at lafayette everyday is a 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AustraliaFallujahAl-anbarIraqMadridSpainChinaCaliforniaUnited-statesJamaicaArianaNorth-west-frontier >> i am live insuperable where the baltimore ravens are ahead on -- at the super bowl, where the baltimore radar ahead -- ravens are ahead and a power outage. >> first, the syrian president has warned israel is trying to destabilize his country. president assad broke his silence on the israeli air strike during a meeting with the foreign minister. assad said syria's military is capable of handling foreign aggression. that came as they give the first hint of israeli involvement. he did not admit out right but did say it means the the right to protect itself should be respected. >> if it is about what happened in serious several days ago, i keep telling them frankly we say we do not think it should be allowed to bring advanced systems into lebanon. >> there are still questions being out of what was hit during wednesday's attack. syrian st. helen -- state television broadcast these images and claimed a military research facility was destroyed, but they said the air strike was aimed at stopping a shipment of weapons to hezbollah in lebanon. a foreign policy analyst i spoke to earlier, asking if syria wanted to influence. >> israel will claim it does not want to intervene, that this was an action against militants, but if you look at israel's real strategy, if you put yourself in the shoes of the prime minister's national security advisers and you wanted to buttress the regime of the dictator assad because you prefer that to a democracy, the one action you would take would be an attack on the regime. it seems counterintuitive, but it is not. this lends legitimacy to bashar al-assad. from israel's perspective this seems likely. >> is it likely israel consulted washington before it attacked? >> my understanding is israel did not inform washington it was going to do this. the united states check the box and said, we support israel's right to defend itself. this was not israel defending itself. this was a pre-emptive action, and i just have to believe people in washington are quite disturbed by it. it came during hagel hearings and was politically calibrated to get the support of the u.s. senate. what can a president say? he is not going to denounce israel now? i am very suspicious of the motives of the attack. >> israel maintained the lorries they were attacking carried game changing weapons. does that make it all right? is anyone likely to criticize israel for taking this position? >> there is a lot of criticism from the middle east, and that can be expected. we have only israel's word to go on. i have seen no independent evidence to confirm what they claimed. i am sure from their perspective these surface air missiles they said they were interdicting might be a game changer, but they are only a game changer if israel is planning an attack on has the law or lebanon or further attacks on syria. -- on hezbollah or lebanon or further attacks on syria. >> he does not want another front, does he? >> i am not sure he has enough to strike back with. certainly under international law he would be in his legitimate rights to strike back. i do not think of is going to happen. he has enough on his own plate and his hands full with syria. the military is being degraded. i do not think we are going to see any kind of conventional attack by anyone on israel. they are the preeminent power in the middle east, and they are going to remain that way. >> violence and syria goes on despite talks of a political solution. activists say assyrian army air strike on the district in aleppo killed at least 16 people and injured more. >> this is the district, immediately after syrian government forces carried out an air strike. a missile allegedly hit a building. residents scramble to pull as many survivors and bodies out of the massive piles of rubble. >> there are dozens of an injured people. residential building has been attacked by a missile. >> they are still searching for family members. based on reports from activists and amateur videos like this one, there are indications the syrian government is increasingly resorting to aerial strikes. with no end to the conflict in sight, thousands of syrians are fleeing fighting. the united nations says there has been a dramatic spike to the number of syria and refugees in turkey and lebanon. the refugee camp is hosting over 75,000 people, and they are expanding. a second camp will open soon to cope with the influx. they never saw this coming. >> a new round of talks has been announced on iran's nuclear program. the minister told delegates negotiations would be held at the end of february and involve the u.s., china, russia, britain, france, and germany. he was also open to an offer from the united states for discussions. >> we have to make sure this time, and this is very fair to make sure the other side who comes with authentic intention, with fair and real intention. >> security forces in molly say the top commander has been caught. he was captured by an armed group near the nigerian border. last week france and mullion troops -- malian troups liberated three cities. an egyptian man who appears in a video being beaten by police has security forces -- says security forces made him change his story. he is shown being stripped and bundled into of them in cairo. on sunday he appeared on egyptian television saying protesters attacked him, but now he says it is the police. more from cairo. >> this story has gripped the country for the past two days, and much of it was happening live on television. it was friday when this man who was beaten up and humiliated, drive naked under the eyes of the egyptians or saturday when he appeared again saying this was the protesters who had beaten him up or again today when he appeared saying it was the police who beat him up. it caused a huge embarrassment for the government. they are saying, here is approved in the pudding. this is why we will keep the pressure from the streets. the government has been very quiet. we only heard from the interior ministry spokesman who did say he did apologize. he did take responsibility, and we did say there would be an investigation carried out. >> the least 15 people are being killed after an attack on a police headquarters in iraq. a suicide bomber who targeted, while gunmen stormed the building. >> it was an attack of the heart of security forces. a suicide bomber driving what looked like a police car at the gate of a compound in one of the busiest areas of the city. >> the building was totally destroyed by the blast. they also attacked with hand grenades, and police killed two of them. >> there were so many wounded some were taken to hospitals. many were so wounded the death toll is expected to rise. officials say the gunman had not been shot, then it would have been worse. it was not the first attack on the same police headquarters. a suicide bomber killed dozens and attack planes by al qaeda and iraq. no one has taken responsibility for this yet. mostk is the country's divided city, and people believed political turmoil is making it easier to launch attacks. >> activists in saudi arabia want punishment for crimes against women or children. the campaign refers to a assad the preacher who reportedly beat his 5-year-old daughter to death. is said to show a frequent guest on islamic television. he is said to have agreed to pay $50,000 in blood money to avoid the death sentence. activistomen's rights hopes the campaign will make more people aware of what is happening in the country to help change the laws as well. >> i see the point of it, but this is the murder. good it is not an accidental killing. >> it is obvious there is social media and other outlets, and this will affect women's rights in terms of people being more aware of what is happening in the country, and awareness hopefully brings change. >> still to come, we go inside and afghan prison as authorities try to convince al jazeera they are not used for torture. plus, friends are trying to save one theme from financial ruin. -- stands are trying to save one team from financial ruin. -- fans are trying to save one team from financial ruin. castro, the man who led the cuban revolution step down as president in 2008 because of ill health. the election is expected to head rose castro another term. -- raul pastor another term. >> on sunday he wanted to cast his ballot early in the morning. he said the elections are an important part of of holding the revolution. >> i remember well the days of capitalism, how rough it was for us. there was no mercy. the revolution has given me everything. >> cubans heading to the polls to vote. the main legislative body has 612 seats, and there were 612 candidates. this began last year when cubans have their only chance to choose between candidates. conditions later narrowed down the list to 612. they will convene on february 4 and are expected to name raul castro for president for another four years. the legislators are younger. there are now more women and cubans of african descent, but still the old guard continues to hold onto power. an example is they will also be part of the new assembly. he has taken over from his brother fidel in 2008. castro has taken steps to decentralize the economy. he has also lifted bans on personal freedom like the right to travel abroad, but many cubans say political reform is badly needed. >> for mean democracy is like when you vote for a president like chavez. you will push for the change you want in the country. >> for now the government insists cuba's one-party system will remain intact with the communist party responsible for guiding society. what impact they will have in the years ahead has yet to be seen. >> of fire has burned through a slum in bangladesh. more than 500 people have been made homeless after the blaze. nobody was killed. the government announced it will carry out an investigation into how it started. muslims in pakistan's province say they are being hunted while authorities look the other way. last month more than 100 people were killed in a series of bombings. from the provincial capital we have this report. >> for these men there are no words, yet this community warns this time it is for a police officer shot for being a muslim. each of the men have been shot fo. in a community of 800,000, and there is a big figure, and every month the violence continues. on january 10, massive bomb blast ripped through the streets killing over 100 people. 86 people have been found, and their bodies have been buried, but 17 are still missing. locals say they will never find them, but their bodies are disbursed far too wide. they are rebuilding, but it is felt in the community. they gather for our camera. two generations united in grief. last month his sister broke down. it was followed by even more tragedy. that's my mother was so upset. we tried to look after her. when she found out he was dead, she died. i am so angry when have done this to us. >> they live in fear of more attacks will come, fear that their children will be pulled off the buses and shot. offshoots of the group have claimed responsibility for all the attacks. one local leader is careful not to name the group of says if things do not change the results could tear pakistan apart. >> everyone knows they are very peaceful people. we are a peace-loving people. we never want to be involved in such activities. >> for people here it is not civil war but remembrances the occupied them. they place flags at the final resting place to signify they died of violence. 10 years ago scarcely a flag flew. today the flags grow in number. the ongoing u.s. defence secretary leon panetta has worn the political knives are out for his likely successors shall pay go. -- chuck hagel. was criticized when republicans hammered him with questions. he was criticized for what some call a controversial stance on iran and israel. >> what about when a secretary of defense is confronting -- what about the war on afghanistan? what about the war on terrorism? what about the budget sequestering? what about middle east turmoil? what about cyber attacks? all of the issues we did not see enough time spent on discussing these issues, and that is what counts. >> it is super bowl sunday and the biggest sporting event is going on longer than expected because of a power outage triggered a baltimore ravens were taking on the forty-niners. it is not merely a football game but a nationwide cultural extravaganza. an integral part of that experience are the parties. the u.s. snack food association shows americans are consuming 15,000 tons of snacks today alone. some of the items, 5,000 tons of and about 1,000 tons of nuts. the most staggering data comes from the national chicken council. americans will be feasting on of 1.2 3 billion portions of chicken wings. if the wings were placed side- by-side there would be long enough to circle the earth wise. -- twice. john is in new orleans where the games are being held. i understand this turned into a romantic evening. what is the state of play now? >> it is a bit dimly lit here. they have a little extra time to do that because there was a half-hour break due to the power outage. you can see the lights were out for a good while. they have just turned back on. that was a good break for the forty-niners, because they were favored to win by a few points. nevertheless, they have been routed. it is 28-6 now, and it looks like they may be gaining some momentum in the second half. >> this is more than just a single sporting event, isn't it? >> it is. it is a cultural phenomenon. if you do not like sports, this is a beyonce concert. she does have a reunion with destiny's child. a lot of people watch the game for the advertisements. companies end up paying $4 million for a 30-second ad as one of the reason so many people watch this game, an estimated 111 million people in this country alone. >> an important day or night for new orleans. there was a power outage, but people will see a city in recovery or having recovered, and will they? >> yes, if the power outage had not been an extent -- an external problem, ithat would have been a real problem. the dome is a bit of a symbol of the recovery of new orleans. this superdome was used to house 20,000 people who were homeless after hurricane katrina swept through the town. not only is the super dome back, they are seeing a return of people, and the super bowl is happening at the middle of mardi gras. we have got a lot of money coming back into the town, and this is the showcase event. >> finally, the latest score. >> 28-6. there is not a lot of love in san francisco now. our group of cowboys are sitting around a fire reciting a poem or two. robert reynolds has been catching up with modern-day cowboys working to keep their form of artistic expression alive. >> the script about a lively tune of around the dance floor at a gathering -- they scrape out a lively tune around the dance floor at a gathering. the gathering is held each been year in nevada, a town that takes cowboy heritage very seriously. it is a little known fact that generations of cowboys have composed verses celebrating the land and way they live. >> for us to maintain our traditions gunman and cultural values, -- our traditions and cultural values, our species will be stronger if we hang on to those things. if we all hang on to the same things, we are going to be in trouble. >> nobody knows how many cowboys work the cattle ranches of the west. the best estimate is around 5000. modern-day cowboys still need the skills honed 5 buckaroos of olden days in a place that can be stunningly beautiful yet harsh and unforgiving of the same time. >> people have been talking about the demise of the cowboy and how things change. the way we are doing it is not different from how it was done 100 years ago. >> it is scenes like these but inspire cowboy poetry. the cowboy poetry tradition probably got started on bitter cold winter days like this one, when it was too cold to do work outside. they entertain themselves by composing stories and poems and songs. there are other forms of entertainment available, but cowboy culture remained strong in the west. >> the man on horseback those laughing. >> a unique style of poetry and a way of life surviving into a new generation. >> still to come, as somalia tries to rebuild, we speak to the president on his vision for the future and why some people are watching television in black and white. we will have details. let's hello, the weather is calmer now for many of us across australia. there is a handful of showers in the east and a couple more as we had through the day on tuesday, but other than that mostly dry and settled. it is incredibly hot in perth. the temperatures here have eased up a bit as well. as we head across to new zealand, it has been incredibly wet over the next couple hours. we are seeing the what whether go east word. for the south island it will clear during the day. as we head to the southeastern parts of asia, plenty of showers, particularly in the southern parts. those stores are still with us as we head to the day on tuesday, but in the northern parts it is not fair into badly. -- staring too badly. to the north there are more clouds, and that has to be developing over the next couple days. it will be heavy of it -- as it pushes its way to the east. >> welcome back to the top stories on al jazeera. israel cost defense minister could be responsible for the attack inside of syria. bashar al-assad and his silence. at least 15 people have been killed in an attack in iraq. they tried to storm the building after a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle through the main gate. the blackout that caused a half- hour delay. they are on again now. the play resumed a short time ago. the baltimore ravens are leading by a substantial margin. the afghan government has invited al jazeera into one of its prisons after human rights watch criticized its record. the rejected allegations they periodically torture prisoners. >> this afghan detention center holds people who accused of threatening national security. afghans are trying to disprove claims of torture. they showed us prisoners taking losses on subjects like islamic rice -- islamic rights. the abuse is systematic, citing 14 different kinds of torture and mistreatment across the country. afghan officials called the report unfair and unfounded. >> in the two months i have been here i have not heard of anyone who has been tortured. beenr interrogation's have honest. even the lawyer made sure i was ready it for questioning. but the reports have been strongly criticized by the afghan government. he says the un should turn over the names of the prisoners who allege did abuse. >> when they compiled the report they did not share supporting documents with us so we could respond or fix it if we saw anything against human rights or the constitution. the report was one-sided. >> human rights campaigners say allegations like this have come up consistently for a decade and the government needs to take steps to respond. i think the report provides a lot of the dow and the un has provided an additional detail in meeting with -- a lot of detail, and the u.n. has provided additional details. the afghan president has ordered an investigation, but it is criticized for not including experts from afghan or international human rights organizations. rights groups say the underlying problem is the weak justice system. it relies heavily on confessions to secure convictions. what the somali president is in europe, where he is trying to persuade leaders to invest in somalia. he says his new government urgently needs assistance to help build strong state institutions after decades of violence. somalia has been an effective government since 1991 when the regime fell. a civil war followed. the u.s.-led opposition restored hope. it was a mission to deliver aid. it failed, and the un pullout in 1995. a few years later security remains a problem. in 2011 also bob was forced out of mogadishu. -- al-shabaab was forced out of mogadishu. the president promised to reform the judiciary, so they ask whether or not more investigations into the killings of journalists and crime against women. >> we are in office for five months only. i know in the history of somalia and has been the most secure place in the african continent. i am disappointed, but the reality on the ground sometimes dictates this, and we cannot do what we want to this one is a weak one. i am disappointed. what i know is we have a legal system. it is the issue of capacity, but even with that system, if i am elected president i have the right to interfere. >> many feel that the election could provoke more tribal violence like in 2007. 1000 people were killed that year. elections in kenya have become a battle for survival in some communities. >> the campaign caravan. he is from the community, and that matters. human rights groups say candidates have decided to drive its rival groups out. he says he is a victim. >> he is trying to separate me from my supporters. it is like i am part of both sides. >> they celebrate their candidate. >> it is a problem of the whole country. conflict will be there. a big way to solve the conflict is to share the sources equally. >> this is what those conflicts look like. they set fire to 20 huts and killed 11 people, most of them women and children. only now are the villagers cautiously returning. it would be a mistake to see what happened here with politics aside. in an election we are getting representatives, but it is not the same tune access memory did the same as access to government resources. -- it is not the same as access to government resources. this is the first time they have .een backe she lost everything in the fire. this is what she says when i asked what happened if an orma was elected. >> the last time we elected one in the fighting started. >> as an explicit seem to be widening. -- ethnic splits seem to be widening. >> in a dramatic arrest, a british police used a stun gun on a man outside buckingham palace. they were shocked when a man walked up holding a knife to his throat. it is believed he had two knives, and police eventually disarmed him. the pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the taliban has had major surgery and in the u.k. she was airlifted to britain in october after being targeted for promoting growth and education. doctors worked on reconstructing her skull and restoring hearing. they say she is making good progress. successful projects raise awareness and millions of dollars. it does not necessarily help the cause. >> inside a small london shop, something rather peculiar is going on. and walnuts are meeting their doom and one by one. this is a hard edge of their battle against prostate cancer in the u.k. chris adams has the disease and is the trustee for the charity. >> there has been a significant increase in the awareness of prostate cancer. we have not cracked a walnut and yet, but we are working on it. >> smashing nuts may seem like an odd way to fight the disease, but so is growing a mustache or getting a 69-year-old grammy on board or dressing up in costumes to run yourself to exhaustion. these are always charities have chosen to get themselves notice. it is very business minded, and is working. >> they try to build an identity. they are trying to engage with you, so the same way charities are trying to engage with you in the same way. >> the success of a good campaign can skew the cancer funding landscape. pancreatic cancer and leukemia have similar incident rates, 8400 year for pancreatic and 8200 year for leukemia, but the latest figures show leukemia received nearly 15% of sites this of research funding, whereas henry a big cancer got just 2%. -- pancreatic cancer got just 2%. >> research funding doubled, but some charities feel they are not getting their fair share. but the spanish opposition leaders called on the prime minister rajoy te'o resign after allegations of corruption. protesters fought with police in madrid. a newspaper published a report alleging the party accepted secret payments from a business group accused of corruption. the prime minister said the report is false. former prime minister is given a standing ovation after another property tax. part of austerity measures put in place by the government to reduce the massive debt. he promised sweeping tax cuts if he wins next month's election. >> i will be fighting a next great battle to extend freedom and held it in a state of the gloomy prospect for upon it. >> in terms of economic crisis, people often turn to sports for well-being. think both sea biscuit. even when -- increase even the oldest football club is falling victim to recession. die-hard fans may not be enough to save the team from financial failure. >> the team is everything to these fans. they call it an addiction, a sickness, but lately it is the team itself that is sick. some of the best players have signed up with rival teams. the rest are unhappy, and they are losing matches in the closing minutes through what seems like carelessness. >> they continue to have strong players with expensive contracts. we are going to try to reduce their contract to make the team viable. we are talking about 50%. otherwise they will go bankrupt. >> like the rest of greece, they are cutting down on expenses whenever they karen. >> the team spends $1.5 million a month rent in the olympic stadium, money it can ill afford, and the 3000 fans it manages to rustle up look paltry on television and a stadium built for 70,000, so he is going to leave this facility and move back to the historic home ground in the city center. it once sported greece's first pitch and stadium lighting but is an antiquated monument. that does not seem to bother hard-core fans whose clubhouse is just down the road. >> for france it can only be a good thing. -- for fans it can only be a good thing. >> for $35 million in debt they are already bankrupt. its greek owner has put it up for sale. ♪ the nonprofit alliance was launched last year to show on -- to sell shares to the fan base, but 10 months later burly 9000 people have signed up, bringing in just over $3 million. these fans say the money will end up in the pockets of the outgoing owners, whom they blame for mismanagement, but they have not given up hope. a team whose lucky number is 13 may still be capable of surprises. >> more sports to come, including house cycling is going to look in the future -- how cycling is going to look in the future. ♪ ♪ >> it has been 40 years since color television was introduced, but not everyone has switched over. jessica tells us why some people prefer some things to remain simply black-and-white. >> the main issues in europe and -- >> do not adjust your television. do not worry. there is nothing wrong. john thompson just prefers to watch television in black and white. >> it seems less trivial as there are more channels to settle down and watch a vintage black-and-white television -- it seems as if you are doing something special. >> he is not alone. more than 13,000 people are tuning in black and white. in britain you must pay a television tax. the money goes to pay the state broadcaster, so black-and-white television like this will cost $78 versus $230 for color. some of these sets in a museum in south london date back to 1936 when television began, but there were only a handful, so expensive only the rich could watch, and that could be dangerous. >> there were a lot of early television. they are near the window and the curtains. it would overheat and catch fire. >> most people were intent with their radios before queen elizabeth ii in 1943, which historians say really kicked off. color television arise in the 1960's, and most of america has never looked back. he does not want to forget now the early days of television. >> we are determined as a group of what has gone before should not be lost and forgotten. >> fellow enthusiasts are trying to get the old gear up and running. the goal of once again broadcasting and who in black and white. but the man who has etched his name in history with a children's toy. the creator of the etch a sketch has died in france. it allowed children to draw whatever they wanted by twisting styles. he invented it in the 1950's, originally naming it the magic screen. the beautiful who did the beauty was that you could erase your drawings. -- the beauty was that you could raise your drawings. the san francisco 49ers have turned their game around. the baltimore ravens are facing a 49ers in new orleans, and they lead 23 in the third quarter. let's go back to our correspondent live in new orleans. the power outage gave the californians a chance to regroup. >> something has happened to the san francisco 49ers. they were dominated in the first half of this game. in the second half they have come back with points in short order. they have absolutely dominated since then. they have turned it into a competitive match. there are all kinds of theories about this. we were talking to fans who speculated collin kaepernick the quarterback was shaken by being in his first super bowl, and it is possible that break gave him the opportunity to recapture his spirit, but that is sheer speculation. the 49ers have turned this into a competitive match for the first several minutes of the second half. >> thank you for that. news of the rest of the sport. >> thanks very much. nigeria will face malia. they defeated the ivory coast in the quarterfinals. >> fans are very happy. 1-0 in the first half. they came back. with just over 10 minutes ago, it was a very bad sunday. they go into the semifinal against molly. -- mali. the ivory coast getting no closer to win it. nigeria goes one step closer to the final perio. >> the boys showed character. you have to fight, fight. whacks burkina faso and -- >> birkhead of foster reached the finals for the first time since 1998. burkina faso will face, on wednesday. barcelona has been held to a draw in valencia. they were looking to increase their 11-point lead. an accurate finish for valencia after 33 minutes. top marksman with the equalizer. he is judged to have been filed in the box. his 34 of the season, with the final score, 1-0. in italy, a three-point lead after winning, 2-0. the first half went this way. the home team, 2-0 up. a penalty in the second half. he scores in the fifth minute. mario scored twice on his debut after his $26 million moved from manchester city. the strike in the first half and a penalty of them win, 2-1. the defending league has been held to a draw with liverpool. the equalizer earn. but will be little comfort in who to the manager. his team now dropped nine points below manchester united. >> i think they would recover. i think the season is long. >> pakistan is making south africa work for the win after day 3. south africa added 68 runs. the visitors are needing 480 for a victory. pakistan looks to be in trouble, but they need to hundred 97 to win with six wickets remaining. -- 297 to win with six wickets remaining. the lakers blew an 18-point third quarter lead. 23 points and 10 rebounds. kobe bryant added 18 more. the lakers won five of their last six games. scotland's stephen gallagher has ended his nine-year title drought after winning the divine desert classic. he led going into the final round, and thanks to his fifth eagle finish three shots ahead of south africa's richard stern. it was the first tour victory since winning at st. andrews in 2004. canada has upset spain. myles won the decisive four games to give the home team an unassailable lead. walker has won the first stage in qatar. it is normally used as preparation for the classics. they are trying to use it to put the controversy of the sport behind them. >> cycling is trying to draw a line in the dopings scandal. they are trying to get on with their day jobs. >> i did not have anything to do with armstrong, but it is hard to handle a situation, and we try our best and keep doing what we are doing and doing sports, and that is the future of cycling. >> our focus on myself and the team. >> some writers even refused to be asked about the affair. -- riders even refused to be asked about the affair. are there differences between your new team and your old team? >> one is from belgium, and the other is from the u.k. you feel this kind of weight. >> the writers are trying to forget about drugs, cheating, and lance armstrong. they are going to be covering 700 kilometers in the first race. it is 145 kilometers. the team set off from johan with the most successful writer -- from doha with the most successful rider. they did not appear to affect the outcome. the american was winning a sprint finish. sprint finish.
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