Agency slams the international communitys slow response. And france looks to the right with the National Front coming first and second in local elections. He was one of the 20th centurys greatest ashun leaders, a man singapore people call their founding father and lee kuan yew widely credited with transforming singapore from a small port city into a financial centersent died at age 91 and criticize for being undemocratic and authoritarian and Nicole Johnston looks at his life and legacy. Reporter singapore as the world knows it might not have existed and the fourth generation sin pore saw his home land occupied first by the british then the japanese and training as a lawyer in britain he was Prime Minister this 1959 a post he would hold for 31 years, despite a ruthless style of politics lee was no independence leader and singapore became independent against its will and kicked out of malaysia in 1965 against a back drop of racial tension, at the time a fearful lee contemplated a bleak future people who elected by geography, economics, and ties of kinship. Reporter sentiment gave way to prag pragmatism and under his leadership singapore was transformed from a tiny island with no National Resources into a high tech metropolis but it had a darker side and opponents found themselves in court and some ended up bankrupt, freedoms were micro managed along with the economy. Famous bands like chewing gum were only recently relaxed. Lees People Action Party returned to power again and again with his oldest son now Prime Minister. Even after stepping down lee kept working in the annex office and was minister and minister mentor and through it all he was un repentrepentunrepenting. If i took a straw poll we would have came tomorrow greece. Reporter freedoms sack fieedfie ed ed sacrificed and he was one of the most important leaders and we will go live to scott in singapore and now mourning the loss of the man who pretty much has been at the helm of the country for almost 50 years is it with affection that people mourn the loss of lee kuan yew . Absolutely. We were at the hospital Singapore General Hospital just a couple hours ago and that was the scene where we saw a lot of people coming in and placing get well cards, get well messages, that obviously turned now to a memorial for the former leader. The crowd there was a little bit thinner than it had been in the previous days but there are Community Centers set up around this city where those who want to come out and leave a message for the former mr. Lee they have been doing that and also for the family and also behind me there are condolence books that have been signed all day to kick up a little bit now because its after work hours and a lot of people are here and standing in a cue across the street behind me and signing this book and leaving their message to the death of this man who many saw as the father the leader the long time leader of this nation. And so now the country enters a period of National Mourning leading up to a state funeral. Exactly, yeah, with seven days National Mourning period and goes through sunday and why we are here, behind me is the compound that houses the Prime Ministers office and where the body of mr. Lee is now. It came here just a couple of hours after he passed away in the hospital he was brought here and obviously as we heard in the report his oldest son was the current Prime Minister and what will happen now monday and tuesday there will be a private family wake and on wednesday morning his body will be loaded on to a carriage and taking to Parliament House and he will lie in state until saturday and there will be a state funeral on 2 00 p. M. On sunday and many stages of mornings the country will go through and this morning there was a bit of shock and people were digesting the news and met people from grandfathers to grandkids and kids going to the Community Centers to pay respects so a lot more of that to come and also we have heard mentions from World Leaders, global World Leaders from around the world sending their messages of condolence here too. Reporter we are live in singapore. The u. N. Special envoy to libya said there could being ament between governments in days and could form a unity government despite fighting in tripoli and peace talks almost collapsed when u. N. Said tibruk killed a senior rival commander and fighting in misrata and they were talking about gaddafi forces and are trying to survive again and people say they are pushing back an i. S. I. L. Onslaught. Reporter it was the second bombing in a week and in both incidents security buildings were targeted. Early on sunday a car bomb went off outside headquarters but no one injured and they have been spared violence in many areas in the vast country over resent months and why the explosions are seen as attempt to destabilize misrata. Misrata is involved in a multi front war. For months they have been battling forces allied to the general and tibruk along front lines in libya and as of late Groups Associated with Islamic State of iraq and levante declared war on this city. This is the eastern gate of misrata and security tight because 250 kilometers from here is cert a city in the hands of groups that pledged allegiance to i. S. I. L. And sent hundreds of men to the front line and weeks have passed and have not been able to defeat the threat. Translator people across the world think misrata is home to extremist and islamist but this is not true. We are the ones fighting i. S. I. L. We are the ones fighting terrorism in libya. Reporter i. S. I. L. Is growing and afraid if they do not unite and its backed by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi and not just that they believe i. S. I. L. And government of the east are financed by regional powers. Translator fighting i. S. I. L. And the forces and former regime behind the groups and chad egypt, sudan and eaer are supporting them. Reporter role of the 2011 revolution and paid a heavy price when it stood up against gaddafi and today its the backbone of the libya dawn military alliance to tripoli, one of two administrations who claim to be rulers of post gaddafi libya and since last year the city lost more than 350 men but officials here are not ready to compromise because for them they are fighting the enemies of their revolution, im with al jazeera, misrata. Iraqi forces say they discovered a masked grave containing remains of iraqi soldiers. The discovery was south of tikrit and unclear how many bodies were found because to uncover the grave site is still on going and it was thought the soldiers were killed by i. S. I. L. Five progovernment fighters have been killed and eight others injured in an assault on sites controlled by i. S. I. L. Northeast of tikrit and iraq defense minister says his forces are planning to storm tikrit city as soon as possible. Iraqi army caused offensive to give civilians left a chance to leave and tikrit is the second biggest city under i. S. I. L. Control and important gain because it lies on the road to baghdad. Translator when we see the time is right for the tikrit alliance we will storm it as quickly as possible. Tikrit is in full siege and taking caution to not take losses and protect civilians in the city terrorists surrounded in the city and their morale is low and we will storm the city without resistance or losses. Reporter sierran rebels captured crew members after they crashed in the northwest and pictures on social media shows the helicopter going down by jabal in italy and the news agency said the helicopter had a mechanical problem and military accused of using them to drop barrel bombs on towns and neighborhoods. Lebanese military says its not well armed enough to take on the Islamic State of iraq and levante and fighters along the border with syria and al jazeera given access to a military front line and we report. Reporter each day on the mountains with Syria Lebanese Army looking for any sign of movement by the enemy. When soldiers spot it they attack. [gunfire] we are concealing identity of this captain to protect him. Even if we are not armed very well we are doing the best we can and we are sacrificing and given life and we have given a lot on this mission and we will keep doing that until the last drop of blood. Reporter the Lebanese Army is trying to ensure that fighters with i. S. I. L. And alqaeda linked alnusra front do not expand the war fronts across the border. Military post is just a few kilometers from where armed groups staked their position. They are dangerous because they work in small groups and like farmers and shepherds so it was very hard at the very beginning to distinguish between civilians and terrorists. Reporter but at least for now the Lebanese Army says it is making gains one strategic post at a time the stakes are high, lebanon has its own share of political trouble and doesnt want to get sucked into the broader sectarian conflict in the region. Its not about only infiltrating or actually crossing borders in the lebanese territory, it could be also again its a hybrid country and also could be creating instabilitys in the territory. Reporter military leaders say while lebanon may be divided politically pthere is a united front with the boundaries, im with al jazeera. A lot more to come here on the al jazeera news hour including security situation in afghanistan and the withdrawal of u. S. Troops topped the agenda of leaders from both countries meet later in washington d. C. It will get peoples attention. Reporter using politicians in south africa and how it got one cartoonist in trouble. In sport barcelona takes a step to winning the title and we have reaction to one of the largest european futbol. It has been exactly a year since an out break of ebola was confirmed in west africa over 10,000 people died in liberia, sierra leone and guinea and we look back now at how people in these countries coped and the stigma associated with the virus. Reporter when ebola was at its worst last year she was trying to save those he could and that is when he could the disease. Fortunately i survived it but working out in the Community People point their finger at me as the one who came down with the virus and people say he is the one, me and it becomes somehow discouraging and worry some. Reporter colleagues showing no symptoms were made to feel isolated. People could no longer come around me and i had to stay away because of that. Reporter despite the stigma proud is back at work. He has beat the virus and says its now time to beat the miss information about the disease. Thats what liberias government wants to do as well. In a few weeks the World Health Organization had hoped to declare the country ebola free but that is now not going to happen because of the new case discovered days ago. It left many here worried. Discouraged but its a bad war. Our children i will delay their education and to hear there is a new outbreak of ebola is very very discouraged and im feeling very bad about that. Reporter ebola has spread at an aggressive pace criminalingly daily life and all schools were closed for six months and in one year the disease has crisscrossed borders killing more than 10,000 people across west africa. Experts have traced the source here in guinea. This is a spot where it is believed bats infected a toddler triggering the epidemic and also effected sierra leone and nigeria. The countries affected hope the worst is over now and that could very well be the case if themty Treatment Center in liberia is anything to go by, al jazeera. There is a report that has just been published by doctors without dorr borders and criticizing the international slow response to the outbreak and we can speak to henry gray who is the ebola task coordinator and is now live from brussels and in your report you are pretty scathing of the rate of reaction coming from w. H. O. Can you quantify how long that delay was and how much it might have cost in terms of the transmission of the disease and indeed lives lost . Its very difficult to put an actual figure on the number of lives lost. What is very clear is that despite warnings in march last year it took until august until there was a World Health OrganizationEmergency HealthEmergency Court and that meant that u. N. Member states in particular but also the governments involved didnt give the outbreak the importance it needed to control. Why do you think that was . Was it a matter of just inefficiency . Its difficult. I mean there are certainly problems within the World Health Organization institutionally, structurally. There were alarms from the field that were not heard in their headquarters but it goes beyond that and it isnt just the problems within the w. H. O. It is wider to the u. N. Member states. And so what do you think was behind the Member States of the United Nations not responding to what you could quite clearly see was a crisis in the making . That is a very good question. Im afraid i cant answer that. All we know is that the delay that was caused by states in w. H. O. Cost valuable time in preparing a response. We are in a different place today but we should be much further along. Now obviously we have approached w. H. O. In order to put criticism to it and waiting for reply in geneva but it sounds very much from this report that m. S. F. Or Doctors Without Borders under unimaginable pressure as an organization spreading itself through three separate countries. Absolutely and have not done everything like we would like to have done and we made mistakes and a small point of experts before this outbreak but since march of last year we up to 1300 and took part in emissions and 4,000 staff trained within the three countries effected. But we had to look very hard at ourselves as well. This is not just a hatchet job against the w. H. O. But its really a reflection that the world is not prepared for an outbreak for this magnitude and what worries m. S. F. Is its another outbreak in another part of the world with similar background and similar set up to the three countries in west africa, we will have another problem and another huge problem which will cost lives. For now henry gray thank you very much indeed and we have to leave it there, henry gray of Doctors Without Borders, thank you. Now in the United States a senator from texas ted cruz is running for president in 2016 and the first to declare presidency and first term senator made announcement on twitter along with a 30second ad calling for support and is expected to make a speech later on monday. Ashraf ghani is on the first visit to the United States since last year and troup withdrawal from his country is likely to dominate the talks with president obama in washington on monday and president obama already said all troop also be out of afghanistan by the end of his presidency. And roslyn jordan reports. Reporter when afghan president ashraf ghani meets with u. S. Officials on monday his countrys security will be top of mind and wants u. S. President barack obama to delay his plans to delay troops by the end of 2015. Top u. S. General in afghanistan is inclined to do so. Im particularly concerned about the summer of 2015 the afghans, this is the very first fighting season completely on their own. Reporter ghani is trying to relaunch peace talks with taliban and worried about the threat of alqaeda and local malitias and very worried that i. S. I. L. Might be trying to move in. We believe presence of i. S. I. L. In afghanistan is rebranding of a few taliban and taking this threat with dangerous rhetoric seriously. Reporter right now about 9800 u. S. Forces are in afghanistan to train and support the afghan military, president obama had planned to cut that number to 5600 by the end of this year then withdraw the rest by the end of 2016 leaving behind a small number of troops to protect the u. S. Embassy and think the military will crumble and something the u. S. Secretary acknowledged on a resent trip. President obama has options to reenforce support for president ghanis strategy including possible changes to the timeline for our draw down of u. S. Troops. Reporter some analysts say the Obama Administration has to think longterm and cannot ignore the need to improve afghanistans economy. At any point you can see security collapse but if the economy is able to be sustained then you will be able to push back on whatever Security Problems you face. Reporter the Obama Administration is expected to announce changes to the u. S. Troop deployment plan while ghani is here in washington its a recognition say experts that leaving too quickly could turn afghanistan into another iraq roslyn jordan al jazeera, state department. Thousands of farm workers in mexico are protesting wages and working conditions. The police have arrested more than 200 protesters after they temporarily blocked a major highway leading to the United States. Al jazeeras john holdman has more in mexicos baha california california. Reporter these are just some of the thousands of farm workers who are on strike in the valley in the Northern State of baha california. This region and the huge farms in it export millions of ton of fruit and vegetable to the u. S. And these are the workers that pick that fruit and vegetable but they say their salaries are not increased for years and they often work in miserable conditions. Translator all the prices of everything in the shops have gone up and the salary is not enough to pay for things. We get 7 a day and producers s