♪ hundreds of iraqi volunteers move out to join the fight against the rebels in another town hall. ♪ i'm with the world news from aj, also coming up, dozens of people killed as armed gunman storm a town in kenya, al-shabob is blamed. time to pay the gas bill and a deadline set by moscow comes and goes and. >> i'm andrew thomas and in the

valley of tanzmamia and they are being removed from these pristine forests. ♪ rebels in northern iraq scored another important victory as they push to the capitol baghdad and the latest in the gof and they captured the city early on monday after fierce fighting with government troops and rebels also control the country's second largest cities. hundreds of volunteers are moving out to join the fight against the rebels. these are pictures from baghdad on monday morning. fighters supplied with army fatigues and thousands volunteered after a call to arms from iraq's top sheer people. hundreds fled their homes because of the violence and he is in haza where many people are

headed. and more refugees are expected to turn up there because of what has happened and reports now confirm the rebels have taken it over. >> reporter: indeed, when you were saying that sunni rebels are there that translates into another mass movement of people towards safety. we have been here for the last two hours or so in this coo of cars keeps on growing and growing and one it's because they are falling in the hands of the sunni rebellion. there is fierce fighting in the town for about 24 hours and it was probably fiercer than other plac places. and the church men are divided between shia and suni and stayed in their homes thinking it could

reach them. what is just confirmed to us overnight apparently the iraqi army or airforce carried out a strike on the main electricity bridge that feeds the city of mozul and many refugees this morning were telling us there is no more electricity there. that is after the suni rebels had tried to put things back in place in the city and just two days ago you hear rebels saying they are working for us and helping us put that city back together. apparently now they are under a total blackout and you really see people here coming with everything they can and see them coming with mattresses and spots and air conditioning, what they can put their hands on. they don't have kish anymore because they cannot access banks so some say we will use them and if we need we will sell them to get some cash. >> and he said she going to crush these rebels but just how well prepared and well equipped is the iraqi army to deal with

this threat? >> reporter: well, you know, it looks more and more difficult by the day. you know, that patch that happened where the rebels came in, they opened the jail, the iraqi soldiers just fled. first commanders and then soldiers who with all alone and in this area n the north of iraq was maybe one of the last strongholds of the iraqi army, the brigade are the lion's and they have not evaporated them and they are in towns and cities across the country and mainly sunni or disputed areas between kurds and arabs. it's the biggest base in the area known here as clay one. until a few days ago it was home to the 12th infantry division of iraq army and they fled on the

same day he fell to sunni rebels and the group known as islamic state. we take a tour of what looks more like a ghost town than anything else. millions of dollars of u.s. equipment and some donated by washington reduced to wreckage. this is the command center. it's all burnt out. you can still really smell it. it's not clear who was behind the fire. some say soldiers destroyed as much as they could before running away and others blame looters and residents but they left in a hurry and left everything behind. and here is a registry and a manual of the special forces of bethra. this is a listing with all the names of soldiers and officers and their personal addresses.

these are passport photos with some have their names behind them. if the sunni rebels got their hands on this they could go after these people one by one. there is a back drop of the iraq army opened up for forces to fill the security vacuum>> translator: we have troops to protect us and we need to expand further south and those are under our protection. since 2004 we have been trying to explain we want to help protect people. now look at what a terrible fate. >> reporter: yet, this situation is someone a blessing for the kurds, one main point of contention between baghdad and the kurdish regional authority is delays referendum over the so called disputed territories. a large amount of land claimed by arabs and kurds and at the

heart is this land is recorded but kurds as a historical capitol. >> translator: it was sold on the ground and may not be the case but reality is it has. iraq is also split and problems that have not been solved and no trust between the people and political leadership. >> reporter: it's flying high but it's difficult to see how baghdad will ever be able to reimpose its rule here. ironically this says one iraq for one people. the truth in the country today couldn't be further away from that, i'm with al jazeera. 48 people are dead and they stormed the town not far from the tourist area and the attackers opened fire on hotels, a bank and government offices and this picture shows damaged buildings and burned out cars and we have more from the kenyan

capitol nairobi. >> reporter: they drove in on sunday with two mini vans and tells you how many attackers were in the attack and several believed to be involved and estimates say 50 gunmen involved in this attack. gun battles lasted hour but extent of the damage transpired in the early hours when it was clear government buildings and local lodging houses and a petrol station and restaurants and coffee shops were damaged by gunfire and many people fled into a nearby forest seeking refuge through. it's important to note the attack appears to be targeted local as opposed to attack targeting westerners or tourist targets per se. in that sense this attack will appear to be different.

authorities immediately pointed the blame at al-shabob with a larger context there is an on going terror threat in the country and seen foreign governments issue travel warnings to their citizens, the united states reviewing the level of its staff in the embassy in nairobi and uk is shutting down the consulate and this comes as yet another security incident in a larger, on going terror threat in kenya. >> kiev has run out of time to pay its gas bill. $2 billion from russia. ukraines discounted rate was in april and given extra time to settle the bill ach making a payment of $786 million earlier this month. around 15% of gas in europe comes from ukraine. and the gas problem says ukraine owes $1.5 billion in total and

the price is $485 1/2 per thousand cubic meters and they will make payment if they cut the price to $326,000 per cubic meter but that offer was rejected and rory is in moscow with the latest. >> gas problem has said to ukraine if you want gas you have to pay for it now and you have to pay for it in advance. no cash flow, that is it, no gas. it's the result really of fruitless negotiations that have been going on for weeks. we had talks in berlin. we had talks in brushels and russia although it was willing to extend the deadline for them to pay wasn't willing to lower the price below $385 per cubic meter of gas, that was rejected by ukraine and now russia has run out of patience and has said to ukraine it will get gas it paid for in advance and also

told europe to have disruptions in supply as this goes on. it's also taking ukraine to the international courts of arbitration in stockholm suing it for $4.5 billion in unpaid gas bills. now, there is one mitigating factor in this which is essentially everyone wants this situation resolved. russians don't want to lose huge amounts of custom from ue and europe and ukraine don't want supplies to be affected so hopefully there can be some resolution in this crisis by the time winter rolls around and people really do need gas here. >> colombian president brought peace to columbia after being reelected in a close vote and he secured a peace deal with farc rebels and it means current talks will continue and mary ann

reports from pakistan. >> reporter: peace is the winner. that's what reelected president manual santos told colombians. >> translator: this is the end of more than 50 years of violence in our country and beginning of a new columbia with more liberty, social justice and columbia at peace. >> reporter: santos has four more years in office and he will have to deliver on his promise to end the war. >> translator: it's peace because i expect the war to finish wednesday. if santos betrays us he will pay a price and we need peace because we all have been hostages to this war. >> reporter: peace talks divided colombians and millions backed rival candidate whose party will continue to be a strong force in opposition. >> translator: this is the first to start organizing our party effectively and a new

alternative and a new choice for columbia. >> reporter: despite victory the president santos will face a great challenge in congress, 20 senators from the center of the democratic party have been elected and the leading senator who labored santos a trader. they attacked him saying he abandoned hard line military politics against rebels and now he will fight back. the peace negotiations will obviously be one of the main issues against which the democrat will act on every opportunity available to it and if and when the agreement is signed it's subjected to a referendum which it will work to assure the company in population votes against this. >> reporter: almost half of the country voted for his opponent and share his concern. >> translator: i would like there to be peace but peace with justice, not peace with impunity. >> reporter: after such a

tightly contested race santos will breathe an sigh of relief as he remains president and his greatest challenge will be to convince colombians it's time for a negotiated peace. i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: people are fleeing to afghanistan for safety and maritime in the south china sea and we go on patrol for ships in disputed waters. ♪

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welcome back, reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, sunni rebels in iraq scored another victory and captured the north town after fierce fighting with troops and they already control the other cities. al shabob is blamed for attack on the coastal town and left at least 48 people dead and they attacked hotels, a bank, government offices and set fire to buildings. and ukraine has run out of time to pay its gas bill. of $18 billion to russia and they face having its supplies cutoff. the pakistan taliban says it's at war with the government. military launched offensive in the northwest involving ground troops and air strikes and 120 fighters have been killed by the afghan border and this is seen as a response on attack of the

karachi airport next week and they are fleeing and worried about the escalating vied lens between army and taliban and they are crossing border into afghanistan and they have more from islamabad. >> you mentioned there have been strikes and not just one subdivision but two subdivisions and we are told there has been casualties in israeli where 15 fighters were killed, another 12 were killed in air strikes in the area. across the station and airports are on red alert. security has been beefed up. we are also hearing in the province all leave cancelled for doctors in the hospitals and they have been put on emergency footing. the military operation is likely to last for sometime according to reports we are getting.

they have surrounded fighters and plugged and called on access routes and at the same time they asked the afghans to beef up security on their side of the border to prevent the fighters escaping across the border and they asked the government to conduct operations where the leader of the taliban, pakistan is said to be hiding. >> the israeli military arrested dozens more hamas activists as it continues to search for three missing teenagers in west bank and they were arrested on monday and include the speaker of the parliament and senior hamas speaker and israel accused him of abducting the teenager that had gone hitchhiking and went missing on thursday. the trial of three al jazeera english journalists resumed in cairo and peter greste and

mohammad held for 130 days and al jazeera rejects charges and demanding immediate release and we have this report. >> reporter: almost six months behind bars waiting for others to decide their fate, journalist greste, mohamad are on trial falsely accused of supporting the out lawed muslim brotherhood and the prosecution is asking for maximum jail terms and 7 years for greste and 15 for mohamed and fahmy and they are not alone and journalist al-shamy is also in prison without charge and on hunger strike for five months and his health is declining and the families are getting increasingly frustrated.

>> the prosecution did conclude its case with what i think in all fairness were pretty wild and sweeping allegations against the whole of the group. >> reporter: other journalists have also found themselves being called enemies of the state, activists too. a court sentenced him to 15 years jail just last week and a key figure in a 2011 up raising with mubarac but si si is now the president and promising to fix egypt's problems and want him to promote freedom of the press. so far they have a state which does the opposite, i'm with al jazeera. a court in china has sentenced three people to death for attack at beijing square and this is when a car went into a crowd and caught fire and five

other men have been given jail sentences. and we are live in beijing for us and tell us more about the court case and the verdict. >> reporter: well, just a few weeks ago the government here announced that nine people had accused often being islam militants are sentenced to death and had the fate for three more and this is part of a crack down going on in the country for the last eight months when there was attack here in the capitol when a car was driven into a group of tourist and 39 kills and bystanders were injured and three occupants of the car were killed. those convicted today were involved in the planning of the attack. as well as those that were given the death sentence, three others were also given life sentences and they range from 5-20 years. the attack in beijing, all those

months ago was very significant because it was the first time that people here in the capitol had ever experienced urban terrorism. in the weeks that followed of course we have seen dreadful attacks outside the train station when 29 people were knifed to death in attack that was also blame on weaker separatists. a few weeks ago in the capitol around 39 people were killed in coordinated car bomb ings at a central market. so the government's response has been as i say to crack down but the worry is the war is now perhaps spreading beyond the borders to other parts of china and china is dealing with something else it has not confwronted before, suicide bombers. >> thank you for that and we are in beijing there. and vietnam has taken journalists to the south china sea to argue its case over growing dispute with china and

the decision to move a rig to pap ashgs rshgs asha rsh rasail island has made people enraged. >> this is the standoff with chinese vessels. despite worsening summer seas this boat brings provisions and also on this trip international journalists. this is the latest move by vietnam to explain its case in a dispute with a far more powerful neighborhood in which it has limited options. >> for vietnam, being a weaker country it's hard for the people carried out by china. >> reporter: flanked by two guardianships 20 clem -- kilometers away this is as close

as they can get and this is a dance with their counterparts. >> translator: we will show the chinese community and the ship through our patience and determination these are our workers. >> reporter: the coast guard shows evidence of the vessels being ramp but china says they have been hit thousands of times and it's easy to see how it occurs, the chinese vessel cuts across our sturn at speed and these are happening at two, sometimes three a day and as they do the chances increase of more serious clash resulting in injuries or even death which take the whole situation to a far more serious level. morale is high and these despited parasail islands and in the south they fly their flag but china's actions are renewed resolve towards all disputes in the surrounding seas.

>> what they appear to be signalling is the beginning of a campaign of unknown duration and character to essentially enforce these claims. >> reporter: it's a prospect that vietnam like other asia neighbors are taking seriously, rob mcbride, al jazeera in the south china sea. the justice says at least three muslims have been killed in fighting with buddhists after a rally after a right wing group in the southwest town and shops were burned and mosques attack and curfew imposed there and muslims make 10% of the population. the head of a manufacturing plant in india has been beaten to death after refusing to give into workers' pay demands and in a mill they reportedly attacked the ceo with bricks and iron rods and turned violent when he rejected demappeds for increase

working hours and the security person was also attacked. pakistan supreme court is set to rule on a government appeal against lifting a travel ban on former president musharif and lower court decision allowed him to leave the country and facing five charges including treason from emergency rule in 2007 and he rejects allegations and says they are politically motivated. australia is calling on the u.n. committee to scrap ruling projecting parts of the wilderness and they ask to have it lifted but as all of the money as andrew thomas reports from tazmania. >> reporter: they reach for the sky growing straight up and some are 18 meters tall and 4-600 years old. right now the trees of the

florentine valley are protected. >> they added these forest to the world heritage. >> reporter: that listing by unesco was on advice of australia's government but as a result jobs are at risk. this guitar made of wood of the trees sells for $5,000. a cabinet like this can sell for $30,000. >> being able to say this is made of bird's eye human pine with black wood in it and you can only get that in tazmania that is the cornerstone of our injury. >> reporter: last year they changed where environmental standards are holding back the company and asking them to reverse last year's decision and say these forests are not of world heritage value, that outraged some environmentalists

and thought they won the latest battle in the forest wars which date back decades and included some protesters living in trees for months. >> protected on behalf of humanity and added to the world heritage area and it's an embarrassment they are prepared to go down the line of trying to undo that listing so it can be logged. >> reporter: some people in specialized timber industries think the original process to extend the area was flawed and so called independent experts had undeclared links to environmental groups and no attention paid to the cultural value to what they do >> these products grow in 90 forests, we cannot go anywhere else and we cannot have somewhere where they do not grow. >> reporter: what is listed and world heritage forests are pristine and it is and also those that have fall end in the zone have been logged before. it's unusual to ask for

delisting and they will have to decide whether their original decision was based on bad advice and if so whether to delist and allow the logging of some of these giant trees, andrew thomas in al jazeera in the valley of tazmania. news and sport on our website, al jazeera.com. starts. well, it's a life raft for americans drowning in student debt. i'll examine what the white house is doing to help struggling grads, and drug stores challenging doctors with clinic. how this is changing traditional medicines, machines taking over the world - seriously, it's not science fiction, what it could mean to middle class workers i'm ali velshi, and had is "real money".