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where a brain disease is effecting thousands of children. developing story in france where a diplomatic roe is brewing with the united states. the national security agency is accused of spying on french citizens and we have a man in paris and the tell us more about it, tim? >> david, this has come as something of a bomb shell on monday morning. the french have woken up to discover that during a 30-day period between december and january this year the united states intercepted no fewer than 70.3 million phone calls in france over a 30-day period. lamond the highly-respected french newspaper has broken the story and the fallout has already been swift.

the u.s. am -- ambassador is being called and it's shocking news and seems it was just not suspected terrorists that the u.s. was monitoring, it was also people from the world of business, from the world of politics, and during that period under an operation code named u.s. 985 d like something out of a spy novel which of course it fully justifies, they spied on these millions of french citizens and as i say it couldn't have come at a worst moment, john kerry the u.s. secretary of state is due here today to discuss progress in the palestinian, israeli talks to update colleagues here and he will be deeply embarrassed by the timing of this. >> reporter: one reason they

decided to publish today and we know the way the world of journalism first and it's 5:00 in the morning in the american capitol and to word from the u.s. on this i would imagine. >> none being reported in paris so far. but the french foreign minister who is away, the foreign minister's meeting in luxingberg at the moment and won't be meeting the u.s. ambassador directly, a deputy will be doing that. he was unequivocal in demands for an explanation. this is of course been hinted at because we have seen similar revelati revelations from edward snow den, the contractor who decided to leak all these documents. he is now of course in russia where he has been given a safe haven. but he clearly is still seeing

the results of the kind of material that he gathered, making itself felt. and incidentally the news agencies are also reporting and i'm sure you have seen this as well, but similar revelations to the ones here in france also in mexico where the u.s. was spying on the former president calderon so there will be fall out there as well on monday. >> reporter: yeah, tim, thanks very much indeed. more details of what tim mentioned there, mexico condemning spying by the united states on the government and accused of hacking in the e-mail of the former president and his cabinet ministers stemming from classified documents leagued by edward snow den and published by the magazine spiegal and the u.s. spied on other leaders including the current mexican

president. an afghan army commander is defected to a group allied with the taliban and taken with him a truck packed with guns and high-tech equipment. and he was part of a 20-man special forces unit in the eastern providence of kunar and he switched sides and joining the islamic organization. and three people have been shot dead at a church in egypt and gunman on bikes opened fire at a wedding on cairo and from there dominick cain reports. >> they arrived on motor bikes and opened fire without warning. their targets were a christian congregation at the church of the virgin mary. the people had been attending a wedding and were just leaving when the gunmen arrived. >> translator: we were running and when i arrived i found a woman sitting on a chair with

bullet wounds and blood coming out from everywhere and it was a difficult sight and a child had been shot in the leg and shoulder. >> reporter: the local parish priest said although the target was a christian church this was an attack on the entire country. . >> translator: what happened is an insult and not directed only at the christians and we are destroying our own country and imagine what people outside of egypt will think when they hear that something like this happened. we are an internationally known church. christians makeup 10% of the 84 million population. in resent months dozens of churches have been attacked across the country fueling tensions between christians and the majority muslim population. it's understood the church of the virgin mary had been left unguarded for several months. the head of police security in

giza said officers will increase their patrols outside churches following this attack. dominick cain, al jazeera cairo. >> christians and churches have been the target of a number of attacks since his removal from power and 40 churches have been targeted and more than 200 christian-owned properties have also been attacked and coptic pope receives death threats and several christians mp of whom are cops have been killed. and he said this is becoming too common in egypt. >> this is a horrific attack. people who have gone to celebrate what should have been a joyous occasion have been subjected to the deadly attack and more are coming. it's terrible to see that in the light of resent attacks where christians and muslims are

trying to get on with life, regardless of antagonism and violence, that even on a night like this when people are trying to celebrate they can lose loved ones. there has been a heightened level of attacks of over 40 churches being attacked over a short period of time. there are still some who wrongly accuse christians being the source of the former president ousting. wherever you sit on that dialog and whatever opinion you have, i can't imagine anyone who can justify the killing of an 8-year-old girl going to attend a wedding in a church under these circumstances. we heard there are investigations and heightened security around the churches. the support we would hope to get is for accountability and bringing people to justice within the ending of former

feelings and punity that people carry on increasing and spiralling attacks. >> reporter: a bomber is in baghdad killing 55 people, dozens were heard and in baghdad neighborhood which is the sheer muslim district. australia firefighters are bracing for what they described as an unparallel fire emergency possibly for the next few days and there are real concerns that 2 or 3 of the major bush fires burning in south wales could join up creating a huge fire. a state of emergency has already been declared. andrew thomas is there. >> the weather is getting worse from the point of view of fighting fires and getting hotter and windy, notably windy in the blue mountains west of sidney and over 48 hours it's supposed to get worse still. the concern is that 2-3 already huge brush fires burning across

the blue mountains may join what some are can calling a mega fire and could pose a risk and they are giving authorities to demolish the house if they are in the way of efforts and fighting the possibility of one huge fire and we have the deputy instant controller here and what is the priority for your guys at the moment? >> it started on thursday and now it's monday and it's five days and we have a lot of fire and we have 200 volunteers working the area and currently the priorities are doing burns and making sure the fire stays where it is and short of the weather coming on wednesday and the weather could push the two fires together and cause a large fire and could under certain weather conditions force the fire to run to the edge of sidney particularly in the hawksbary area. >> the suburbs of sidney could be at threat under certain

circumstances and tony abbott who has been a volunteer firefighter for years went out as a firefighter overnight on saturday, a grainy image appeared on twitter. he did not take a tv crew with him but he is anxious to show nevertheless he is one with his firefighters and this is a very serious situation and he is personally involved. >> reporter: it may be years before people can go back to their homes close to japan's damaged fukushima plant and they are way behind schedule. thousands were forced out of their homes when the nuclear plant went in meltdown in 2011. a team of international experts delivered the preliminary findings into an investigation of the site. >> now we have seen that the program is in good coordination with the reconstruction efforts. all of it of course will be aimed to lead the conditions of the people affected by the

accident. the team has also offered it some new advice on several things that we consider that there was still room for further improvement of some practices and especially to increase the public confidence. the number of lessons learned have been noted by the mission theme. to say we are an international community. >> reporter: still to come in the program marking a month since the siege on west gate mall and we are live from nairobi where people are searching for missing family members and honoring migrants who died off the coast of sisily and promises of a state funeral were not met. ♪

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this is al jazeera and these are the top stories, france say that the u.s. spied on citizens and call it unacceptable and the u.s. swept up 70 million phone records and text messages in a one-month period. government attacked a wedding party at a church in the egypt capitol cairo and an 8-year-old girl was one of three people killed. australian firefighters are talking about an emergency in the coming days. there are concerns that two, maybe three of the bush fires in new south wales may merge together to create a massive

infer inferno. those who died in kenya in the west gate mall are planning on funeral and 20 are still missing and peter talked to some of those still searching for lost loved ones in nairobi. >> and the west gate shopping mall is not so much of a memorial as it is a grave. he was supposed to join his two children here to celebrate the oldest one's fourth bert day on the day the gunman attacked and all three of them are still missing. it's a painful reminder of what happened here. >> my aunt, the first one. >> reporter: she brought her son paul and daughter christine for a treat and have heard nothing and are full of unanswered questions.

>> they are hiding from us, which it's very wrong because we need to know where the bodies are and need to do a ceremony and go and bury our people but we cannot do it. >> reporter: one month on from west gate we know very little of what happened after the shooting began. police and civilians in the military did their best to rescue people in what now seems like a well-intentioned but tragic attempt to contain the crisis. silent video from cameras seemed to show just four relatively relaxed gunmen hunting down and shooting anybody they can find. this doesn't look like a well coordinated military operation, more a random attempt to create as much blood shed and fear as possible. the video has more questions than answers and if there were four men involved in the attack as the video suggests why would

the government tell us there could be as many as 15 involved and how was it that such a small group of likely armed men were able to fight off the kenya security services here for almost four days. he is a former intelligence officer and he believes the government should have seen west gate coming. >> and officers were aware of a possible attack and we didn't seem to be prepared and didn't seem to have been prepared for it. >> reporter: the government has lost an inquiry but so far it's declined to release the results or give any more information about what happened inside the building that has become a part of terror and confusion. >> reporter: we are live from nairobi, undoubtedly a somber case at the memorial and as you say anger close to the surface as well. >> that's right.

we are seeing very emotional, very low key and informal ceremony here at the forest where people planted trees for each of the non-victims of the attack as well as 16 other trees that represent the people that are still to be identified. the remains of those who have been formed and not formally identified and i'm joined by the organizer of the event and chairman. professor we have not seen anyone from the government here and it seems to be informal and organized by the public and why did you do it this way? >> we wanted informal and did not want to have a high profile. there has been too many high-profile events and so on around this issue and we really needed people and relations and relatives of the victims and friends of the victim, normal people meeting together and

doing something that helps them deal with the loss of their loved ones. and also to remember, it's exactly a month ago today, and we needed to let kenyans know the family is moving on and the family are sad but united we are as kenyans to move on and move this country along and the people who did this event may have wanted us to be separated, to have the visions among us and to hate one another and believe it's one sector against another but we are one and remain as one and united kenya and forecasts on developing a nation that has a peace culture, unity culture and a culture of prosperity. >> reporter: you personally knew at least three people who were killed in the attacks.

what does this mean for you as someone who was very close to people there? >> devastated. i knew a few who died in the event and i was involved in the search for him because we did know he had been killed until almost 24 hours after the event started. devastation. saddened. sometimes astounded at how much suffering human beings can cause to other human beings. i mean it's something i cannot fathom myself. but amid all this i found gracious people who have done more than the call of duty to help those who are hurt or mamed or killed and therefore i have learned to also honor humanity because humanity has perhaps the best. >> reporter: professor, thank you very much. and over the coming days and weeks as the unidentified bodies

are finally identified, their name also be added to the trees that don't have names here at the moment and if there are any further victims found then more trees will be added to this grove. >> thank you very much indeed, as that service was taking place hundreds of migrants who died trying to reach italy earlier on this month have been buried in sicily. the government said it would hold a state funeral for the victims, instead they are getting a memorial service and we report. >> reporter: as they often do on sundays they visit their family mosuliem at the cemetery and the flowers are dead for ones they never met but are buried close to relatives and they offered a burial plot to a woman and four-year-old children, two of the hundreds of migrants who died in the shipwreck october third off the coast of sicily.

>> translator: they would have been forgotten if they were buried elsewhere and nobody would have left a flower or remembered them and this way when i say a prayer for my grandfather i will say one for them too. >> reporter: the mother and child were promised a state funeral by italy's prime minister and are part of a few who were given a dignified burial. most of the almost 400 migrants who lost their lives in the shipwreck are buried around the city here and despite promises of a state funeral they were given a private and somber ceremony and all that is left behind to mark them are numbers on a wall. on monday preparations were on the way for a controversial ceremony at the port, an event with government representatives but no coffins. >> translator: this shows the difference between our local population who rolled up their

sleeves to help and a government which makes grand statement with little concrete contribution when faced with tragedy. >> reporter: in the meantime tens of migrants arrive everyday on the coast of sicily for being another forgotten number in the island cemeteries, al jazeera. >> reporter: foreign ministers from the european union arrived in luxingberg and they will talk about the conflict in syria and kathryn ashton will talk on the issue of chemical weapons and political developments in the humanitarian crisis. bombs struck in pakistan killing 6 and hurting 16 more and it was on a track in the providence and four of the trains cars were derailed. nobody has said they were behind the attack. the u.s. secretary of state john

kerry said nothing is more important than the relationship with pakistan and made the remark just before meeting with the prime minister who is making the highest level to the united states in years. u.s. pakistan relations has been tense since the death of osample what bin laden and they said pay more than $300 million in security assistance to pakistan which had been blocked. thousands of workers have been protesting outside their parliament calling for better pay and social benefits and want minimum wage of $170 a month to be increased behalf. and al jazeera has more from here. >> thousands of workers have protest and a national strike in the next few weeks after they successfully protest and achieved a higher minimum wage last year now they demand 50%

increase of minimum wage this year. >> translator: we don't agree with the new presidential decree that allows minimum wage to increase by around 20%. fuel prices have gone up, we are facing double digit inflation and the inflation is not well and gdp going up and we want 50% and we compromised because we think it should be higher than that. >> reporter: workers in indonesia say they cannot live on $170-$200 anymore and prices have gone up significantly and the living cost and the cost of transportation, so now they want a higher minimum wage and they also want healthcare for all the workers and not only the official workers but also all those formal workers in indonesia in 2014. they have nodding syndrome and little is known what causes it

and no cure and in uganda are showing some signs of getting better and we report from the country's gulo district. >> and he can no longer talk and barely eat. he is 12 years old and the growth of his body and brain are completely stunted and has nodding syndrome and it's only found in certain areas of east africa and here in north uganda thousands have it and no cure and eventually it kills. his sister grace has it too. most of the time she is too weak to come out of the hut and the parents don't know what to do. >> translator: it's very difficult to look at these two children. as a mother it's unbearable. i hope for any kind of support from any well wisher and feel useless and eventually i think they will die.

[singing] a little ways away it's different and they suffer nodding syndrome and coming to this center everyday for a year and the improvement in their health is astounding. they are given basic education and meals and helping to wash everyday. >> and now they can talk, we have some of them here, you can see them. and they could not play. they are now jumping, kicking, yeah. and we are happy and smiling. >> reporter: but they are still not cured. nodding syndrome gets its name because victims get seizures that often begin with nodding. the children here still get seizures but they happen less frequently and they are trained by doctors how to handle them. and medicines for treating epilepsy and vitamins help but the drugs alone have a limited

effect. the whole program of daily activities at the center is crucial. it was set up by two american doctors. they run a charity for nodding syndrome victims called hope for humans. nodding syndrome has baffled disease experts and don't know what causes it and there is no known cure but the children here have improved considerably and relatively healthy and happy and seems to a large extent simply because they are getting what all children need, some balanced meals, exercise, suitable education and simple hygiene. and that suggests that the reason that nodding syndrome is so devastating in this area is at least in part be because of the broader context of extreme poverty. and it's too far to walk there and the government provides services for children with nodding syndrome but with much less success. so for most it still causes great suffering and eventually death. malcolm webb in northern uganda.

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