Handing out cash in indonesia but this politician says he is not corrupt and not sorry. A senior olympic official has condemned brazils preparations for the 2016 summer Olympic Games. He says they are the worst he has ever seen. And some have not been started. Brazil other sporting event the football world cup begins in six weeks time and we will hear from the correspondent in a moment but we have this report from nicole johnston. Reporter this is the moment when brazils olympic comes through, five years ago it has the right to host the games in 2016. But its preparations are not going as planned and they have been slammed by the Vice President of the International Olympic committee. Speaking in sidney he said. Translator the ioc has a special task force to feed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground. We have becomed concerned and they are not ready in many ways and we have to make it ap and that is the ioc approach and you cannot walk away from it. Reporter the problem but the preparations have delays and raising costs and poor communication between the government and organizers. It may sound like the types of problems many olympic suffer but this time its so bad john coats says its the worst he has experienced. It all started with so much promise. The rio Olympic Games would be the first in south america. But until recently there were worker strikes at the main olympic park and construction has not begun and in june it has to get through hosting the football world cup and the International Governing Body of football criticized preparation and john coats says rio also had social problems. There has been months of unrest in some of the cities slums with clashes between police and residents. Here people demonstrated against Brazil Holding the world cup. The International OlympicCommittee Says it has no plan b to find another host for 2016. Instead, its putting the pressure on brazil to lift its game quickly, nicole johnston, al jazeera. And lee joins us live from london and lee extraordinary strong comments there from the iac. Does brazil deserve them . Well the iac doesnt say it lightly and talks about what they had to do and reminds me in a way of what happened with the secretary general john with the world cup two years ago. He was very, very strong with comment. And it was you will have to listen and take action and like an enforcer and with words and actions the iac are stepping up with rio and extremely concerned, the words and language used, critical. Worse than athens. There were all kinds of problems with athens beforehand and shows where we have to. Actions and john coats himself has been to rio six times recently showing how much attention he is giving that and other duties as well and there have been vetted ex p efforts with the local organizing committee and unprecedented and showing how much help they have to give brazil moving forward and they dont want to do it but they also dont want to move the games from rio and they do not deal in moving olympics away and they want it to happen in brazil and will happen any way that can. Reporter with the world cup around the corner and the last thing authorities want to hear. The question was always did brazil bite off more than it can chew. Unprecedented situation, unique really to have a world cup followed by an Olympic Games. Now the hope was they could work hand in hand. Dealing with infrastructure and spending the money to deal with it and you are in a position where it would all come and Work Together and you could have two fantastic events. But look at the situation with the strike, the protests, there are many brazil people who are unhappy with the money being spent and actually one problem is leading on to another. And the football world cup is only six weeks away and is over shadowing the olympics and this is from john coats is to say we are not neglecting what is going on and its a big problem and a bigger problem than the world cup has faced. Reporter many thanks and live from london. At least 12 people died in a mortar attack in a syrian capit capitol damascus and it happened a day after the president bashar filed nomination for reelection and we are live in beirut and what do we know that happened in this attack . Reporter well, the death toll has risen to 14 People Killed and more than 80 injured. According to the government sources and the government media four mortar shells struck the neighborhood and two of them struck an islamic coast that is cool. What we know is this is not the first time that the rebels hit the heart of the capitol with these mortar sch shells and rocs and are not in the capitol and fortified with government forces. They have been able to prevent the rebels from taking hold of any of the neighborhood inside the capitol so instead the rebels fire the shells in different areas and they are not very accurate so they hit civilian areas and many civilians get killed. And across the country they are seeing this sort of violence, much worse everyday. The fact we are seeing it in damascus under scores how difficult its going to be for the country to hold those elections in june. Reporter not from the governments point of view. They feel that if they were able to hold these elections in the capitol damascus and in places like homs or aleppo and on the border between syria and lebanon and feel its enough to hold elections and give president assad more legitimacy and if they are held as scheduled on june 3 red, it will be the first time they will take part in popular elections to choose a president. There are nine candidates already including bashar assad and its the first time as i said in modern history there is more than one candidate and people get to vote. Usually in the past and during the time and during Bashar Assads term it was referendum and one candidate is a president and people dont have much say. The west and opposition say this election has no legitimacy whatsoever and 6 million syrians have been displaced in the country and 2. 5 million are outside the country and a refugees and the government saying they can vote in the Different Countries they are in there are many obstacles and no chance to run against assad and this election will be fraud. Live for us from beirut and thanks very much. Now over to south korea and the president has formally apologized for the ferry disaster. The government is criticized for the mishandled response to the crisis. 205 people are confirmed dead. 97 still missing. Harry faucet has more front seoul. Reporter on Tuesday Morning south korea president was at the newly opened memorial to the victims of the tragedy. And they paid a personal tribute to the dead and later made this apology to their relatives and to the nation as a whole. Translator how should i apologize for the failure to prevent the accident and insufficient initial response and end the pain and suffering of victims families even for a moment. I apologize with a heavy heart to the nation citizens that so many precious lives were lost due to this accident. Reporter angered initial response is heightened by video released on monday showing the moment the captain stepped off the stricken ship. More than 300 others, most children, were left to die, told to stay where they were on board. Coast guard rescuers said the ship was too steep to look for others and questions over their response as well as delays in getting divers inside the ship once it went under. In a statement the president recognized it wasnt just the nirl response that was the problem but the condition that allowed the tragedy to unfold in the first place and talked about regulators being too close to industries and promised a new National Safety ministry and a government effort on safety to remodel the country from the ground up and the investigation is expanding, actions of the crew and company and regulators and now the coast guard all under intense scrutiny. Harry faucet seoul. Stay with us on the al jazeera news hour and still to come here on the program, being fed up with broken promises, why people think the election wont make a difference to them. Plus still not over tornados barrel down on the southern u. S. Destroying homes and claiming more lives. And in sport the miami heat show support to the la clippers players whose owner is said to have made racist remarks. The eu released a new list of 15 names of russia and ukrainians imposing sanctions on and targets politician and military leaders. One of the names on the list is the current director of russias foreign intelligence agency, giu. Some of the others are. And Russias DeputyPrime Minister who over saw criteria into russia after it was annexed and valarie, the first deputy minister of defense and army general in charge of the deployment of Russian Troops along the ukrainian border. Across in moscow and we are joined live from there, and putin himself with talks got close to him and why are these particular men being targeted . Reporter well, laura, first of all we should point out unlike the list released on monday including companies and individuals the eu list is putting a travel pan and asset freeze on individuals only. Now some of those as you were listing are key military officials and some of them linked to the defacto annexation of crimea including a member of the duma, Russian Parliament responsible for starting legislation to integrate crimea into Russian Federation and another figure is chief of the russian staff. Now, we should point out that some of these people are politically important but they are not in putin inner circle as some of the american sanctions have gone to. Russia vowed reprisal for the u. S. Sanctions, are we seeing any reaction to this . Reporter they are mixed. In the last few hours the Russian Foreign ministry put out a statement saying that the European Union is doing washingtons bidding with unfriendly gestures. Now just before that the Deputy Foreign minister said that the american sanctions would hurt russias high Tech Industry and he has now said that this is basically a revival of a policy from the 1940s in which western countries applied what he called an iron curtain, stopping supply of hightech goods in the soviet union and other nations so obviously its very unwelcome but they are stressing the eu and the u. S. Have certainly not gone half as far as they could do in terms of going after key economic players and Big Companies like the big Gas Companies here in russia so far. Live for us there in moscow. Thanks very much. Deadline for peace talks between israel and the palestinians has passed without an agreement being reached. The u. S. Brokered talks resumed in july after a threeyear deadlock and the two sides given 9 moves for progress but the negotiations went no where. Lets look at what happened over the past month. On march 29 they went back on a commitment to release a fourth batch of palestinian prisoners saying it would do so only if the palestinians agreed to extend the talks. The Palestinian Authority responded by applying to join 50 International Conventions and treaties and israel officially cancelled the prisoner release. Israelis reissued a call to build more than 700 illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and hamas and included a unity deal and the very next day israel suspended negotiations. And chief palestinian negotiator has been talking to al jazeera. The government gave us no chance, gave secretary kerry no chance. They were determined from day one to undermine these talks and to undermine these efforts. And finally they used the pretext of conciliation to stub the negotiations in the most shortsided decision i have ever seen. We have a senior political economist in telaviv and a commission for the International Affairs and gentlemen thank you very much basically for being with us. If i could start with you, was it wise for the palestinians at this point in time to form a unity government with hamas and clearly it was the very nail in the coffin of the negotiations. Reporter of course its wise and never should be looked at as practical or timing wise. This is a move that has to do with the reinstituting of the palestinian political system and democratic inclusive one and an end to years of a division that has seen a huge amount of suffering by our people and thats why its very welcome by our people and by the International Community and a move that would ensure a twostep solution because if we bring gaza to the equation and hamas in a political question with rules and its good news for any political settlement. And almost immediate rejection of the government to the deal is another example that he is not really interested in a solution or any form of a solution. Okay, was it good news . Does it ensure the twostate solution can go ahead . Reporter no, i dont believe so. But i think the good news should be ending this tangle that is like going one step forward and two steps back and france has been dancing and with kerry for nine months. But unfortunately we dont see the baby. I think that the palestinians have to decide whether israel will face the reality and pay for the occupation or the International Community will pay for it and they keep crying wolf, i will hand over the keys of the Palestinian Authority back to israel and goodbye to this monster, this creature which is called the p. A. Which was supposed to be provisional arrangement and it has been there for now 20 years. But i can jump in, sorry to interrupt, i just have to make the point the israelis have not really entered since the negotiations either and they continue settlement building, some 13,000 new units being moved forward even as talks are on the table. Yeah, because there are no fixes and they dont pay for it, the International Community pays lip service. But why not . If he makes his calculation, you know, getting out of there and stopping the settlements, freezing it will cost him much more than not doing anything. And for him this unity government is a great excuse as if something was happening in the last nine months in those so called negotiations. Is this ball in the Palestinians Court and if so how is it going to reach out to israelis to try and bring them back to the table . First of all i very push agree with that. This is a cost benefit equation and cost of occupation is almost zero and a lot of profit enjoying by gaza and we have to really look at this and how do we raise occupation and they are using negotiation only as a cover up for what you described earlier as the colonization of the land and theft of resources and we know this very well and why we took the steps that we have. We are seeking the International System and it will not raise the cost where israel will end the occupation but raise it to a second level. The second arena we are in now is National Reconciliation because nothing will move forward and we will not engage occupation in a way to raise the course without being united and never united in terms of consensus but the system that is democratic to give back the people ability to elect leaders and renew the political system and include all major palestinian factions including hamas and go to the core of the conflict instead of pushing it to egypt lab or other countrys lab and go ahead with plan to really engage in Popular Resistance on the ground that engages the entire society like what is happening a couple weeks ago and elsewhere and to move on in International Activism like south africa. We are hearing calls within the Israeli Government for annexation of parts of the west bank, some 60 , in fact, a huge amount. So are you concerned that is ever going to become a reality if these talks dont go back to the table . Well, these threats are not just threats. Israel is effectively anything much of this and full control of more than 60 of the west bank. Israeli is in full control of National Resources and full control of the population and full occupation of what the west bank and gaza including jerusalem and these are serious and practiced on the ground by the day. The equation for us is how do we challenge this . And the only thing coming from Israeli Government is either not in position of some arrangement or annexation and this is a grave moment where we have to calculate our steps and i think what we did in the last two weeks starting going to u. N. And last week the reconciliation is very major steps in the right direction. We are absolutely adamant to engage in what they said to make the cost of occupation and to make him sweat. And i believe mr. Netanyahu for the last two weeks has been sweating everyday. Hearing that what will it take then for negotiations to move forward again . A regime change in israel. I dont believe this government headed by bennett and others and if there is some miracle and they decide to get out of the territory, they cannot get their own policies to support them, not that they could and not bennett or other parties and what needs to happen, its not only Israeli Government will have to realize as he just said that its not in their benefit. It costs them too much to keep the occupation, the status quo, its too expensive and has to come from the bottom. And it will come from the bottom once the israelis will realize that there are no free lunches. You want to annex territories and yo