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south korea are accusing the crew and captain of murder as they go on trial. plus. >> i'm phil in london on the hunt for art. there is a big exhibition heading this way and this is roughly what it's going to look like, find out why, later. ♪ welcome to the program, iraqi rebel fighters have taken control of all of the northern province according to the speaker of parliament. government buildings have been seized and the province's largest city of mozel of 2 1/2 thousand prisoners freed there and we have the latest in baghdad and this is a startling admission by the speaker of the house and deeply embarrassing for the government. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, the man who is president

of iraq was very critical and said the iraqi army simply disbanded and abandoned their positions when the fighters came into mozel and the iraqi army simply couldn't do their job properly, willing to do their job properly in the face of what was going on. now, it's interesting, his brother is the governor of mozel and in the provincial building when it was being taken over and managed to escape and clearly this is something quite serious that is going on. people inside have told us that it's complete chaos and that fighters control around 75% of the city and it's not just the provincial building, they have taken over two tv stations and the banks and they are in firm control. >> what is the government's response to this in terms of the any sort of repercussions they

can deal with? >> reporter: every single day we have seen attacks mounting in the province and seen them here in baghdad as well. and the government has not said anything. you have to knnoknow there is a interim government deciding who should be the next government but have not heard any strong statements and we think the speaker of the house came out and said what he said because he feels the government is being impotent in doing anything. we certainly have not heard the kind of language you would expect to be heard. >> why this particular one as well, the prison is 20 kilometers west of mozel. >> reporter: it's a strategic target on the way to mozel and have gone past it and neutralized any resistance and is what they did and there are fighters that were detained in

that prison. whether they joined those fighters or not, it is completely unclear and people in the city describing it as complete chaos but 2400 prisoners freed, that is 2400 in mozel who are looking for somewhere to go. it's likely i.s.i.l. will like them to join their forces. >> we will go back to baghdad and iraq for the development and thank you for joining us. relatives of the victims of south korea's ferry disaster accused the captain and the crew of being murderers. fights broke out as defendants arrive for the start of their homicide and negligence trial and the captain who was seen fleeing the sinking vessel faces death penalty if convicted, more than 300 passengers and many of them students drown when the ferry capsized two months ago

and our correspondent harry faucet is at the court where emotions are running high. >> reporter: the court and the prosecution and defense setting this out before the real meat of this trial begins and the evidence is laid and the answers from the defense are given. but it was an event of extraordinary emotional charge, largely because of the presence here of many of the family members of those who drown in the sea. there were scuffles and those would tickets tried to gain access and inside the courtroom there was more emotion when the 15 crew members including the captain were brought into the courthouse. some of the nam ll lly family membered called them murderers and had to be quieted by the judge and a spokesman for the family got up and there is a phrase that says time heals all

wounds but ours is suspended since the disaster and if it was not murder what is murder? of course four of them, captain included, are charged with murder, all 15 charged with negligence and with breaking maritime law. the maximum sentence for murder here is the death penalty but rarely enforced and defense lawyer got up and said it's not right for accused to be charged with more wrongdoing than they actually under taken and said the captain tried all he could to right the ferry before he was the last member of the bridge to get off and it was that, the fact that the passengers, many school children had been told to stay in their cabin while the crew got off the ferry first, that is what outraged so many in the country and above all the family members. >> joining me now on skype is the professor of international study at hancock university.

before we talk about the trial itself can you give me a sense of the grief and anger in south korean society towards what happened nearly two months ago in the waters of the southern coast? >> i think it's beyond anyone's description here, the overall level of this and of the imaginezation and we have more than two thirds of the people being teenagers attending high school here and the emotion of the people here so over all the level of anger we have seen, i mean, we have not seen anything like this before so over all anger about the case. >> and of course that anger was certainly perhaps focused by the president which he said the

captain murdered and days after this particular incident. has it been possible for the accused to have such a free and fair trial in a glaze of such media focus on the event? >> the issue here is not many people think about this question. and those of us who may be concerned about this, you know, rule of law and just this being implemented according to the law itself i think there is also on the mind of a small minority and the majority since dealing with the angry emotion here, small minority in the country here. there are concerns indeed whether the level itself may hinder and come in the way of implementing justice as they have been advised and established and institutionalized but that is a very small number. >> the public and if we say

obeying of blood what do you think the realistic outcome of the trial will be since people are talking about the death penalty as well? >> i don't think anyone can predict the future especially predict the out cocome here. indeed they are talking about, they have not charged murder by negligence but the thing is as far as i can recall back in the 1970s we had a similar incident. i think the scale is much smaller. at that time the prosecutors were trying to charge those who are responsible with the charge of murder by willful negligence but it didn't work back in 1970. so if history is any reference i think the defendants have some chance here to stand to the charges but we will have to wait and see on this. the point is legal experts are all in agreement saying that

getting this charge as they have been charged will be legally speaking and technically speaking a big challenge. >> we will see what happens as the days progress and thanks for joining us from seoul. metro workers in brazil suspended a strike that brought the country to a stand sill but say they will resume the war count on thursday if demands are not met and the day the world's cup is to begin with the first match scheduled and we report from the city. >> reporter: no agreement but the strike is suspended at least for a day, that was a surprise decision by metro union members after nearly four hours closed door talks with the government broke down with no agreement and nevertheless they said they would go back to work for now and meet again on wednesday, one day before the world cup kickoff in the city to decide their next course of action.

the day started with several hundred mostly youth protesters burning rubbish and blocking the road and it has been tense at times and police locking the doors of the station to prevent a revolt. later riot police come in and 60 picketing workers were illegal by the court and the union wants to get their jobs back before they permanently end the strike and it is a sticking point in negotiations. >> translator: we may have been talking to the government more than two months but they have not been negotiating with us and now they are criminalizing our movement. >> reporter: any day more protests as more than 1,000 activists from a homeless workers movement marched in the center to show support for workers and they are confident if the workers strike again it

won't threaten the world cup games in the city. >> translator: fed, state and city government offer big event that will go on as planned. any issue that comes up we have contingency plan and not just for the metro. >> reporter: the metro worker strike seems to be the catalyst for all the protesters to follow. the big question is in the beginning of the end of protests or will they continue through the world cup. for now it's over but the threat of another strike still looming. i'm with al jazeera south palo. >> gunmen have attacked a security post near karachi airport and they claimed responsibility for it and gunmen fled from the scene after security shot at them and media is saying it was a training camp of the airport security forces. after sunday's attack on karachi

pakistan interior minister gave this warning. >> translator: it is an uneven fight and pakistan is a conflict zone and keep it in mind there are threats everywhere and intelligence media and people have to be proactive and everyone is a target and every building is a potential target. >> more on this i'm joined by bruce a counter terrorist analyst from the brook ings institute and thank you for joining us and he believes negotiations are the best way forward for lasting peace, hard to see that approach work in the light of what has happened over the last 48 hours. >> pakistan is a crucial turning point. the country is covering on the brink of major instability that could bring the port city of karachi to a halt, could see problems that have been resolved before on border lands come in the heart land of pakistan. it's very hard to see how

negotiations can work. the pakistan taliban is not a single unified monolithic group, it's a collection of different groups and some close to al-qaeda and this attack this sunday demonstrates they intend to try to destroy the pakistan's fate. >> we will talk about the taliban in a moment. there were two sort of circles of events here and one where they are accused of coordinating themselves to secure strategic locations like the airport and then you have different factions all calling themselves taliban, working within karachi a melting pot of different ethnicities and all believe they are the taliban. >> this is a mega city of almost 20 million people. it's always going to be hard to govern but today it has a threat from parts of the taliban not willing to negotiate. i think the prime minister is smart to see if he can split off groups but also has to recognize

there is a hard core of the pakistan taliban closely aligned with al-qaeda which is determined to bring down a secular democratic pakistani state and as sunday's events prove we will stop at nothing to do so. >> what about the split that was announced and what is the effect of karachi and the way that certain factions can control certain parts of the city? >> the hard core, those most determined to attack the pakistani state and the pakistani people see the split as a threat to them and therefore they're responding trying to use more and more out age us levels of violence precisely because they know they are losing some supporters to a negotiations path. what the prime minister has to do is hard and thread the needle between use of force and use a political process at the same time. no use of force, it is clear is going to lead to disasters like we saw in karachi, no outside

investors are going to invest in pakistan if you can't fly in the airport and feel safe. >> you talk about finding a balancing act of trying to negotiate and use force and we are seeing the military yet gene cute another operation in the tribal areas. and the taliban saying while you keep doing this we will keep doing this in the urban areas and scare the living daylights out of the population. >> karachi is the soft under belly of pakistan and 20 million people and did verse ethnic groups and did verse political parties and it's hard to provide security in a city that size and australia has almost as many people as karachi does. this is a very difficult area to police but it's got to be a complex solution of political process as well as the use of force and there is one other thing as well. pakistan for a long time has harbored many terrorist groups and the pakistan army patronized

them and soon it will be consumed bitter -- by, terrorism and that is what we see now and this is with the extremist movements. >> we will see what happens in the coming days and thanks for joining us. coming up, on the news hour don't rock the boat and they take time out in sweden before the e.u.'s top job. and he says the people calling for qatar wanting them to be stripped of the cup are racist and more of that coming up, in sport. ♪ now, remaining presidential candidates are in the final days of campaigning and on saturday

they will decide and former world bank economist is promising jobs and help the poor and al jazeera joined him on the campaign trail. >> young and old, he is looking for broad support at this campaign rally in kabul they urged voters from the minority to cast their ballot for him as afghanistan's next president. >> translator: ahead of state is not a slave master but serve the people and i want to be a servant of the nation and if you vote for me you can question me. >> reporter: the former world bank economist is widely seen as a technocrat and was a special

advisor to the u.n. battle with afghan and his credentials are impecable and at the end of 2006 he was secretary general and presidency has been his goal. in 2009 he gave up u.s. citizenship to run in the poll but received 3% of the vote. this year he fared better by aligning himself with powerful war lords and with economic growth securing nearly a third of the vote. he clearly has some support here. but with momentum building with abdula-abdula the chances of winning are promising and not only did abdula received a higher vote in the first round, he has been far more visible in the build up to runoff and

received several high-profile endorsements but he told al jazeera that he is certain he will win. are you hopeful for saturday's election? >> yes. >> what are you hopeful for? >> yes, we have a fantastic moment and a victory and of serving our people. >> reporter: but any victory will be decided by voters and that outcome is far from assured and i'm with al jazeera, kabul. five soldiers have been killed in southern afghanistan in an apparently friendly fire incident. international security force as the troops died monday and most forces operating in the area are from the u.s. egyptian police arrested 7 men for allegedly sexually assaulting a student in the square and happened during celebrations of the new president on sunday. the student was taken to hospital afterwards and her condition is not known.

antisexual harassment decree was issued last week to amend egypt's current laws on abuse. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists e the -- detained in egypt and have been held 164 days. on thursday egyptian prosecutors demanded maximum penalty for them and want seven years in jail for greste and another al jazeera journalist has requested his immediate release on medical grounds and he is held without charge since august last year and on hunger strike for more than four months. they are contending with strikes and world cup and have major flooding to deal with and a state of emergency has been declared in 77 towns in the southern state and rising waters killed nine people and flooded

thousands of homes. the rain washed away roads and bridges forcing the army to use helicopters to rescue survivors and provide aid. now here is the weather with everton. >> pleased to say the rain has now stopped in southern parts of brazil. plenty of cloud, in the process of pulling away and we have better conditions coming through. this is our massive cloud in southeast brazil and that will continue dwi drifting eastward they are going anticlockwise and the cloud quiets the rain down and pushes the clouds out of the way and we will see showers as we go on through tuesday and in wednesday the wet weather now out of the way and thursday the start of the world cup will be fine and dry and i wish you could see this at 26 degrees and that rain in the process of pulling away. i'm hopeful the rain will pull

away from southern parts of mexico. we have seen flooding here of course with remnants of the hurricane forest moving out of the way. flooding continues with southern parts of the moment and these are conditions we have been faced with in and around the region. very strong winds still in place, heavy rains still coming down but that is going to ease somewhat as we go through the next few days and will be showers in southern parts of mexico and mexico city still pretty wet on wednesday and thursday but drier weather to come soon. britt -- britain and schools where they are have hard line muslim values and they ordered on-spot inspections and the schools will be required to teach british values and from birmingham. >> reporter: not long ago the school was praised by the prime minister as a model of

excellence now condemned of failing pupils by not touching them about extreme ideology. the minister in charge of education normally wants parents to have more control over their schools, but not in birmingham. >> we already require independent schools academies and free schools to respect british values. now we will consult new rules that will strengthen the standard further requiring all those schools actively to promote british values. >> reporter: some of the children came out after their exams to say how wrong they thought all this was. >> we want to find out more about regions and we visit churchs and we want to learn more and we want to find out like just because we follow islam and are muslims doesn't mean we hate other religions. >> i want to ask you a question and i don't want to insult you. has the school told you to come out and talk to the journalists

and say these things? >> not at all. we want to be famous and all that. >> reporter: this school is academically outstanding, a failure in government eyes in cultural, secular behavior and this woman who speaks for parents is at the school and this is not what she recognizes. >> you had the latest in the paper today about we are telling children about hell, fire and prostitutes, when is it going to stop? how much dirt before we say it's because they are muslims. >> reporter: and the theory is not as straightforward as some government ministers might have you believe but the crucial part is they now see it as most important that some antiterrorism work conducted through the department for education. many head teachers think that is the wrong response and several

came together to say most parents do want to balance education but believe a few socially conservative muslims have been trying to get a bigger voice which can undermine nationally accepted standards in secular state schools. this woman says she was forced from her job by constant harassment. do you regard what happened at your school as being a form of extremism? >> i think it's more focused on wanting faith and islamic education more so rather than extremism. it's not about extremism. >> reporter: where social values constitute radicalism is at the heart of this, for all complications there is not anyone who would agree with the government but extremism is an accurate description of what has been happening here. lawrence lee with al jazeera birmingham. human rights workers in malaysia want the government to investigate death of suspects in custody and two have died and

eight in the past four months and they say they were murdered and died of breathing difficulties and human rights say abuse by police officers or inadequate checks during arrests must be to blame. u.n. says setting up a truth commission in tunesia is a step forward and they launched the truth and dignity commission on monday on set up to look at allegations for and against the state and will investigate cases dating back as far as 1955. more women have been kidnapped in northeast nigeria and local forces say gunmen obducted 20 woman in the borno state, the same area where boko haram kidnapped more than 200 school girls in april. and in the north of the country there is fighting between supporters and opponents, the second highest muslim authority

in nigeria and he is a critic of the government's record on corruption and was a central bank governor since the president suspended him after the death of his great uncle. a virus carried by mo mows-mosquitos are infecting people in haiti which is fighting a lethal epidemic of colerea. >> reporter: they call it the fever and causes the victims severe pain for several days and lead them with chronic swelling of the joints for years more. in some cases of old and already weakened people it could be deadly. it's still very early to get a good picture of the situation but may contribute fatalities to the out break. this fever is a common illness in africa and asia but since it

appeared on the island last december the virus has quickly spread across the caribbean and because it's been observed in temporate climates they expect it to reach the u.s. >> it will be introduced into the united states and be the next west nile per se. >> reporter: the same moscow that is the host for yellow and dengue fever and schools are closed and projects delays and hospitals criticaled because of sick personnel and there is no cure for this but public authorities are hoping to stem this by getting mosquito nets which are hard to afford for an average hatian but treatment should be of the water where mosquitos breed. >> translator: the big challenge now is to destroy what surround our houses and everything that can tolerate

mosquitos to eliminate them. >> reporter: but with the on set of a hurricane season the conditions are right for the virus-bearing mosquitos to thrive and spread, tom ackerman, al jazeera. >> still to come on the news hour turkey has relations but a rift over the war in syria. argentina vice president faces allegations he abused his pour when he was economy minister. and the owner of the l.a. clippers is not giving up his club without a fight and we will have all the details in sport. do stay with us.