>> this is aljazeera. >> hello. this is the news hour. coming up in the next 60 minutes... a call to arms in iraq, volunteers are signing up to defend the capital of baghdad. >> ukraine forces are taking become a city. >> taking the disputes from the

sea to new york. they are turning to the u.n. for a resolution. >> brazil gets off to a start. >> one by one, iraq's towns and cities are falling to an a fighting force. the al qaeda group is picking up the support and progressing south, taking towns, including on the main road to baghdad. the group is already in the second largest city and up to the north. the kurdish forces are controlling up to the north. the tribal groups are seizing some of the cities earlier in the year.

the saudi prince is placing blames. meanwhile, iran's president promised the government's support. >> we have been warning for months now that the increased number of jihadists are attra attracted there because of the behavior and creating a danning tore the region and the spillover of the violence and the crisis. so everybody in the region, every country that understands the importance of sta ability in the middle east needs to be concerned about what is happening in iraq today and that is why i'm confident that the united states will move rapidly andestive -- effect in order to dealing with the challenge. >> the country is coming apart

by the seams for months. the mainly sheered government add odds with the leaders is getting some support, more than a thousand volunteers from the province is about to start training near baghdad. they are doing a one day course and being sent to fight alongside the regular army. >> a half million people are being displaced. these pictures show the isil fighters fighting in the streets and the weapons are captured from the iraqi forces. the war crimes may have been complited in mosul. >> we have received reports of execution of the iraqi soldiers

with the capture of mosul and civilians on one street on the 11th of june. the commissioner will be warning parties to the conflict that they are under the international law to treat the members of the armed forces that have laid down the arms humanely. >> we have joined live from baghdad, i want to talk about the call to arms by the senior sheer cleric and what was said? >> well, let me tell you it is not just the first time we are seeing this in this country where people are asked to join up. people need to form peace platoons. but the fact that the statement is coming from the grand, the

highest cleric in the country is key. now take a listen to what his assistance had to say. >> i call on people that are capable of carrying the arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country and the shrines should volunteer to join the forces to achieve this goal. >> any idea what type of response is likely to have and where they are getting the arms and how this is all going to work? >> well, what we are doing in some of the places, young men are signing up to join the security forces. when they have done that, they are sent to take back the cities like mosul. these are young men that are given the basic of training. they are not hardened fighters and a lot of them without combat

experience, but they want to fight. they have been given a blessing by the highest authority in the country and they want to fight and defend their country. however, this means because it is coming from a cleric, it is meaning that the entire fight now is being divided along sectarian lines, you have isil, and suni's and former sadan soldiers in the line as well. nobody so far is talking about the national unity force. >> let's leave it there, and going to the jordan capital and welcome and thank you for joining us.

where is this leaving him? there is a gaining confidence by the isil as they are marching on baghdad. >> first of all, thank you for having me. this is extremely bad for mallaki. he's not getting approval for the martial law. it was declared illegal. he has all the authority he needs. he's been the prime minister and appointed every senior officer in the iraqi army right now and done a poor job. it is obvious at this point by everyone he's done a poor job of managing the security services. >> is it a sign of weakness and

calling on many sheer fighters to get involved in the fight. it is going to create greater divisions in the country? >> i'm sorry, i'm hearing some background noise, are you asking about the volunteers? >> yes, and the fact that he's calling on shiite fighters to take up the arms, is that a sign of weakness? >> yes, yes. the reserve army that he's talking about. the units that have collapsed, the second division in mosul and the 12th division in kirkuk, and they are suni divisions. these are arab soldiers that have collapsed and deserted and what is going to happen they are going to get replacements for them and from the shiite areas

and the iraqi army and there was the division between the arabs and the kurds and now the iraqi army is becoming more shiite and in the long term that is not a good thing but feeling that is what they have to do right now. >> they have been accused of not reaching out to the suni's and to the kurds and now is he in the position to do that now or too late? >> well, he has and he hasn't. well, he's always worked to build the suni allies but bringing the legal pressure to people and rewarding them with positions or playing the kurd card and taking a hard line on the kurds.

he's not dealt with illegal arrests and the treatment of the prisoners in the prisons and so on. so not a lot of grass roots support for this government. and then as far as the kurds are concerned, this couldn't come at a worst time with the relations. there was a total cutoff prior to this. baghdad did not make the monthly payments. they have not made payments for march and april. because of the dispute over kurdish oil exports to turkey. so as a result, when this crisis took place, baghdad and the region was in a state of conflict, not armed conflict, but economic conflict, baghdad cut off their payments. as a result, the kurds are

taking control of kirkuk and moving to protect northern areas and protecting the kurdish areas, but the kurds are not coming to the res kie of the baghdad government, they are not going to kick the jihadist out, so you know, relaces between the kurds and the baghdad government is very bad. >> thank you for being on the show. >> in neighboring syria, the government is continuing to bombard the rebels. these pictures are showing attacks in a town, the military is rejaning the control near damascus, several people reported to have been killed. >> relatives of the passengerers

of the mh flight 370 are beginning the receiving compensation. lawyers for 127 others are rejecting the money because they want the airline to support the continued search for the plane. the fight is thought to have crassed in the indian ocean and no evidented has been found. >> china and vietnam is taking the dispute to the united natio nations. they are claiming a ouner ship of a group of the islands in the sea. earlier in the month china moved the oil rig off the coast of vietnam and leading to a standoff in the waters. we have a report from the south china sea. we are on patrol with the

vietnam coast guard. there is inflamed with the introdust of a china oil rig in the area and led to confrontations between both sides and active patrolling like this. we are headed to the zone where the oil rig is. and we have other vessels from the coast guard of vietnam and they are expected to come into contact with the chinese rigs. there are other clashes. the chinese are accused of ramming the vessels. the chinese claim they are rammed a number of times by the vietnam vessels. there is lots of shipping in the waters at the moment, both

chinese and vietnamese. >> an interim government will be set up by september. the army is saying that the move is necessary to restore order. since then the military is trying to introduce political reforms and crack down on politicians opposed to the coup. >> an african solution to a global problem, turning trash into treasure. >> decorations for the world cup are going as far as the eye can see. >> ahead in sports, this friday the 13th reproducing a world cup from years ago.

irish government is promise inquire into the deaths of thousands of children under the care of catholic nuns. institutions where unwed mothers were forced to go. we have a report. >> the history is being dug up again and the witnesses, he was born here when this was a mother and baby home run by the nuns to detain women that committed the sin of becoming pregnant outside of marriage. he remembers a childhood of loneliness and i willness. >> i remember being on a bed for weeks. i was in a coma state on the bed for a long, long time. >> with what? >> i don't know. >> maybe tb more measles.

>> you could have died? >> yes. >> the nuns took him away from his mother. she was left with a lock of his hair before she was sent to work in a laundry. the american visitors turned up to buy a baby. >> it was like a super market. looking to take a child. nobody took me out. >> if the good children had a value, the weak ones didn't. this is one of the several places where the bodies of hundreds of places where the children died and unmarked by the nuns. all the headlines around this know focussed on whether or not

there are hundreds of children buried in the grounds now. and this is looking at the catholic institution in ireland and being involved in child trafficking and enslavements of women and the racket under the guise of religion. even though at times society knew about the mother and baby homes, the full picture is just now becoming clear, thanks to historians that released the evidence of the carefree way in which is church did all of this. >> it seems they were happy to support this. this was their policy. it is hard to separate who was who. there is a total over lap of the church and state at this time. >> all this after the scandal of

forced labor of the women in the catholic state houses. and this may be worse still. >> i think this is a crunch point, a point of no return, and i think certainly when we look at the churches involved in the system, the schools, and there is a will out there and a call now for that separation to take place. >> the aim is the final separation of church and state in services like education and healthcare and the deaths of thousands of children don't change things it is hard to say what will. aljazeera ireland. >> they should be in school, but instead it is estimated that almost 200 million children are around the world are working in hazard environments. as part two of the series marking the world day against

child labor, aljazeera returning to the charcoal factory in the philippines. >> 12-year-old says he's gotten no time to play. every day for the past four years year alongside his mother making charcoal for less than 3 usds a day. >> we get to buy food. it is good, i get to have coffee in the morning before coming to work. i dream of becoming a policeman one day and helping the community. >> he doesn't really believe it is going to happen. the mother has no choice with six other children to feed. >> i feel guilty. this is not the life i dreamed for him. but we don't make nenough money. life is not easy here.

>> more than 200 children live and work here. they make charcoal from wood from the nearby garbage dumps and exposed to toxic conditions. the u.n. is saying that this is one of the worst forms of child labor. across the country 3 million children are worked in conditions like this and that is ten percent of the children in the philippines. the majority of these children are young boys. we were here two years ago and interviewed the children that dreamed for a way out of poverty. when he was sworn into office in 2010 #, the president promised to eliminate child labor by 2016. but the number of children out of school and in the conditions like this is not declining. the government admits expectations must now be

tempered. >> we have taken steps to ensure that child labor where it is, where it should be reduced. >> the country's economy is growing since, but the growth is not seeming to be inclusive and the number of children out of school and in dire conditions like this has not declined. >> we have to contend with one population of girls, the government is still struggling with the inclusion of girls and series of calamities that affected the philippines. >> the charcoal village is called one of five. >> it has become a tourist attraction for those coming here this is a world spot that is

surreal for many. not for the children working here, it is a reality and one that is hard to escape. >> now to weather and following the floods, we have better weather for southern china. >> yes, it is looking better now. as you can see the main area cloud is out to the south china sea and sinking to the south. just a couple of days ago, wednesday we saw the flooding in the provinces and heavy downpours coming down here and people were rescued from their homes. the water is waste deep there. it is taking some time for the flood waters to go down, of course. we have dryer skies coming in behind. you are drawn to the area of low pressure swirling away in the straits and wet and windy for

taiwan as we go through saturday. taiwan is cheering up for the second half of the weekend. we have a better forecast now for the eastern side. we had a massive cloud coming in here, this is a tropical storm and now in the process of disintegrating and going up to the north and maybe one or two light showers. >> thank you. >> ukraine's government is saying many casualties after launching offensives. kiev is retaking the town from the separatists. >> left to deal with the war, these people are saying it is not their own. this is the aftermath of a

battle. em blazened on the vehicle a symbol of the people's republic, their fighters were held up in a building until the early hours of the morning when ukraine troops moved in. >> coming with guns and after that, i don't know how many rounds of fire. after a couple of hours the real battle begun. >> the battle raged for most of the day as the men called terrorists scattered from the headquarters. >> we are told that the base is a few blocks from here and we are hearing the gun fire. but locals in the area are just going about life as normal, some of them just coming to take a look. >> as the shouts got louder, residents are taking cover. the country's minister is saying that some of the soldiers were

wounded and separates are retained. the prorussian fighters managed to take control and residents are undecided on who to support. >> of course there is fear. we don't know what is happening. some are supporting the men in black and some are supporting the other side. >> in the first assault, targeting specific buildings at the city center. they are calling this a victory. the residents are not convinced and only luck kept them alive. >> the brazilian city is the gateway and hosting four world cup matches starting with england and italy on saturday. outside of rio it is a popular

city to visit for the tourists. the fever is starting to spread. >> the day's catch of the fish market. whether from the u.s., italy or england, the football fans in town for the world cup are trying the rare fish. these fresh water fish from the amazon are the tastiness est any where. the tourists are usually looking for one type. >> they are looking for the soup that is famous. >> it is one of the most popular cities. for most people one of the

world>>s great once in a lifetime adventures. unlike many other brazil cities caught up in the labor protests, there is excitement here and putting the final preparations on a colorful neighborhood display of the traditional decorations. it is extending down the street. >> during the first game of the national team, we are a hundred percent happy watching the game, this time we are champions at home. >> while the airport is still a work in progress, the stadium, which many say is unused after the tournament, is getting the final touches for matches. >> it is no doubt that the stadium is a spectacular sight but the world cup is a missed opportunity here, because the major mono rail line never got

off the ground and delayed and the entire project was cancelled. >> back at the fish market, the anticipation of the football hangs in the air and realizing the uncertainty that the city and the country reaches in the coming days but willing to set that aside for now. we have to welcome the tourists. this is the first time this is happening here. >> so long as before they leave they try the famous amazon fish. >> much more to come on the aljazeera news hour. system overload thousands of people desperate to get to america. >> as security forces prepare for saturday's presidential runoff we talk to the voters in the strong hold. >> still ahead in sports, the

spurs on the verge of dethroning the previous champions, the miami heat. .

>> you are watching the aljazeera news hour. thousands of iraqi men are headed to baghdad to defend the city's, and closing in on the capitol.

>> there is heavy rebel casualties after mighting. the government is retaken the town from separatist fighters. >> vietnam is taking a dispute over the southern china sea to the u.n. the china vessels are moving in. >> more on the top story, the fighting in iraq. right now the fighters are operating in the area marked red, that includes cities in syria and iraq. they want much more. the members of the group believe that all muslims should live on the borderline and based on the historic map of the old islamic empire and including most of the country's in the middle east. we have a political analyst joining us, and can isil get

what they want? >> well, i think you have avert of the society you might be able to do that, but we see indeed strong resince tense from the powers that don't like to see is isil controlling this vital and important region. the isil is just an affect of the policies. what we are seeing is not just the isil because of the policies of exclusion over the past few years and he's excluded most of the muslims and he tried to establish a fear in iraq once again and he stormed the pea

peaceful iraqi cities and declined to listen to the just demands of the iraqi people asking for dignity for freedom and more share in the cities. this is leading to the community in iraq and sympathizing and having this interest with the isil and this is why we have seen them taking control of the major iraqi cities in the past few days. >> they are affecting effectively and they are calling the leader likening him to osama bin laden. >> yes, they are confused to almost anybody. if you feel like you are a victim or exclusion and you have

somebody like isil with a proactive and very ambitious leadership and committed fighters and having the enemy. finding isil and -- [indiscernible] and this is why we have seen isil controlling and actually defeating the iraqi arm and the security forces in mosul and the province. >> you are talking about why they have become so successful, how successful they are at the moment, what and who is out there to stop them? it is call to arms going to make a difference? >> the only way for the establishment of a unity government in iraq, and relying on that, and the iraqi armies calling for the establishment of

a new militia. and that will increase the globalization in iraq. we are going to have a civil war in iraq in this case. you have to establish malaki to resign. and for the unity government includes and bring into this government the suni leaders, actually when the americans tried to include them in the process and so this is the only way in my opinion to stop this and prevent isil from this. >> what with u.s. military involvement, will that make a difference? there is a call to use drones.

>> i don't see a major u.s. involvement in iraq. the thing we are seeing the afghanistan and pakistan, it didn't change the picture in either of these three countries. i don't think iraq is a big country and most of the provinces and what would the drones, what difference would it make? for iraqi's to fight this war on behalf of themselves. it is not for the americans to fight it. the iraqi's have to form a unity government where all of the parties and communities share a part in this situation. >> thank you for talking to us. >> thank you. >> turkey is saying it is negotiating to secure the relesion of dozens. up to 80 people, including diplomats and children were

kidnapped. >> the most important thing the reuniting the prisoners with their families. >> there aren't any negative reports on their health and we are negotiating and making great effort. >> egyptian report extended the detention for another 45 days and his lawyer requested the immediate release on medical grounds. he's held without a charge since august and has been on a hunger strike for four months and he's not going to break the fast until being released. >> three aljazeera journalists accused of supporting the brotherhood held, and last week the egyptian prosecutors demanded the maximum penalties for them. aljazeera continues to demand the release of the journalists

detained in egypt. >> hundreds of indians are protesting over power and water shortages as a heat wave is continuing. parts of northern indian are experiencing the hottest temperatures in over 60 years. the government cut the air conditions and street lighting. >> also a protest in india over the death of six steelworkers and killed by a gas leek at the government run plant. demonstrators are accusing the managers of ne glens. >> a high speed ferry headed from hong kong crashed and injurying 58 people. lifeboats were sent to res kie a hundred people. the vessel hit a structure.

>> afghan security forces are on high alert. former foreign minister survived an assassination attempt last week. there are concerns that increase in the taliban attacks could affect the voter turnout. we have a report from central africa -- afghanistan. >> the only way in and out is through the check points like this operated by the afghan national police. all vehicles are search and the passengers. this is ahead of the presidential runoff. this area is particularly at risk, it is less than an hour from kabul. the colonel is in charge of the forces responsible for keeping the voters safe.

he's confident that the poll will be held without incident. >> it is clear, they want to create insecurity and disrupt the election but we are prepared for it. we are on high alert and the people will be protected. >> with 22,000 polling stations to secure, it won't be an easy job. the security forces did well in the first round and no major attacks and voters came out in record numbers. but in the past few weeks there are increases of the pressure. >> last month there was a launch of so called spring offensive and a series of attacks across the country, including an assassination attempt against one of the candidates, but the threat of violence is not stopping him from voting, he's noticed fewer people on the streets, he wants to cast his

ballot for change. >> the security situation here is not very good. but i'm going to vote. i want peace. i don't want war any more. god willing the new government will bring afghanistan peace. >> but with the polling stations showing evidence of the fighting, peace for many afghans may feel a long way off, even with a new president. >> after spending five years as a taliban prisoner of war, bowe bergdahl has arrived home. he checked into the medical center in texas. he'll receives medical treatment there and reunited with his family. bergdahl was handed over to u.s. forces two weeks ago and part of a prisoner exchange involving the release of five taliban leaders held at guantanamo bay. >> a growing number of children

with babies are crossing into the united states from central america. under the u.s. law the minors cannot be deported until a lengthy process is completed. from the mexican border, rob is reporting. >> a towering wall of rusted metal climbs the desert hills e hillsid hillsides. this is a major crossing point for the migrants entering the united states, and it is where we met lydia and her son lester. they had arrived from hon durs a. lydia was too afraid to allow us to show their faces. >> the worst thing is waking up and hearing your children asking for something to eat and nothing to give them. that makes you want to come

here. in the mexican border towns, migrants are spreading the word about the provision of the u.s. law they believe allows them to stay indefinitely. minors and women of children are not detained for long. they are allowed to stay in the u.s. while the case goes through the immigration courts. it is said that rumors are planted. >> human smugglers are leading people to believe just by being here is enough to have the possibility of getting immigration benefit. >> 47,000 child migrants entered the u.s. since october and overloading the system set up to process them. human rights are alleging that

migrants are being abused at the border. >> the department of justice is loaning resources and judges for faster proceedings. in addition to this, we know we must do something to stem this tide. >> lydia says she's had enough of hunger, violence and poverty. >> i'm thinking of how to cross to other side and be kaukt by immigration and they'll give me a permit and i can stay. >> a mother willing to risk everything to give her child a different future. >> still ahead, we have all of the sports, including the world cup opener. plus... >> australia soccer, a team on paper is the least likely to win the world cup.

>> the largest pollutants in the ocean. one company is working with a group of women along the coastline to turn the trash into treasure. from kenya's south coast we have a report. >> it is not ordinary job for these women at the coastal island. every morning when the water reseeds the women from the village walk to the shoreline to

collect the garbage that the ocean left behind. sally leads the group whose daily struggle is getting a meal on the table for the families. >> we decided to do because the beaches and ocean are dirty. we decided to collect the bar gaj and make ornaments to sell. >> garbage ends up along the coastline. >> when the tide is high, the water comes all the way here and leaving behind piles of garbage. we found bottles from tanzania and other countries as well and flip flops and lots and lots of flip flops. >> this is the second largest pollution after plastics. after a few hours the task the

completed. back in the backyard, they clean the flip flops and make trinkets out of them. some of the flip flops end up here where ocean solar company transforms them into art and the products are sold in the u.s. >> it is really about using trade, a trade based solution to problem of global pollution and in the ocean, and this is really an african solution to this global problem. >> so here in this shop they are doing their bit, seeing it as a solution to protecting the beaches and reducing poverty.

>> we are getting to the sports news, what is happening with the world cup? >> plenty. it is finally underway. not perfect, but the points are all that mattered as the house of brazil starts with a win. they had a 3-1 win over crotia. >> initially crotia that had the early chances. the miskicked confusing brazil's defense and prodding the ball into the net. a chance to equalize and making this fine save. then we go to two sides of

brazil's, firstly, the man caught for an elbow. then he went up the other side to score the equalizer. brazil took the lead in the second half, thanks to a soft penalty decision, stepped up, not the most convincing of penalties, but 2-1 all the same. a goal in the last seconds. a perfect start for brazil. >> once the euphoria from the win dies down, they'll see there are lots of room for improvement. >> brazil played bad but won good and that sums it up. for me that is all they needed to do. brazil had to win the game

because of the amounts of the pressure that the players and the coach were under. you see the relief on the president's face when brazil gets back into the game. it means so much from the government level right through to the people of brazil, who are desperate to win the world cup with all of the concerns of the financing with it. they want to win it on the home soil for the first time. they want to win this one and to do that you have to get off to a winning start. it was a bad performance. it is not mattering, they recollect build on that because they have the points. >> on friday, 2010 world champion playing. >> they have won the last world cup, the last two european championships, and they are ranked number one in the world, no doubting that spain is a

tournament favorite and they know it. >> we are not afraid of anyone. all the players extraordinary. we are not here for what we have done in the past but for what we are doing in the future. >> the netherlands making it to the knock out rounds and disappointing performance in 2012. >> of course, the extra baggage is there. we are not thinking about that. we are focussed on the football and if match. it is history. >> since then, many veterans are pushed aside for the youth and experienced stars will lead them up front. >> i'm not a fortune teller and i can't say we are going to win. i have never done that. some predict things. in this case you are playing the world number one and we are

doing everything we can to be the surprise of the tournament. >> i am understand that any team playing spain will do anything to beat us. we intend to defend the title we won four years ago. that won't be easy. >> they could be the first back to back champion since brazil 52 years ago. >> that is one of the games played on friday the 13th. we have chile and playing austral australia. on paper australia with the weakest team. >> a joke was going around at the last training sessions before leaving australia. the official slogan is hopping into history, some journalists

think that the only way they are hopping the home. >> i think we'll be back right after the third game. >> of the 32 teams, australia is ranked the lowest. they have lost two friendlies against frans and brazil. 6-0 apiece. a new manager brought in the youth and with that, inexperience. the further expectations, australia is facing the toughest teams in the tournament. chile and then to the netherlands and then to spain. >> it is a messy challenge. no one expecting for the team to get a win. >> even the players are joking about the prospects. have you had a dream of holding the cup? >> we all have dreams of holding

the cup. >> coffee cup. >> since arriving in brazil though, a bit more optimism. they lost a friendly against crotia but barely. the train something going aplan against the opponent's team. anything better than a loss would be a shock. >> aljazeera will have a special update every day. today's installment is on the air just under two hours from now. join us of the news from brazil and around the world and live que guests and featured stories. >> the spurs are on the brink to obtaining the nba title.

they won in game four. with the heat coming in as the defending champions. spurs with a 3-1 lead. a win at home would give them the crown. >> i just think we play basketball. we are moving the ball and playing the way we have all season. we like to extra pass. we preach that. right now we are clicking. >> a round of 65 for germany's player is giving him the lead at the u.s. open. this is one of the foured birdies on the back nine. five under par after day one. >> well, you know, it is the first round, i mean, and usually the golf course gets more

difficult and i think if you are staying around par, you are not far away from winning the golf tournament. i shot five under, that is an exceptional score and nice to lead the tournament right now. >> we have a special on aljazeera.com/brazil. >> thank you very much. >> thousands of people in france are taking part in what is called a flash mob picnic. known as the dinner in white. the diners dressed in white. they are having an incident on the bridges. it is the 26th year that the event was held. we were told just moments before the event begins. it is looking like fun. stay with us. a full hour of news is coming

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