al jazeera does just that. >> decisions in egypt - a court is about to give a verdict in the trial of three al jazeera journalists who have been behind bars for six months. hello, welcome. you are watching al jazeera live from doha. also in this programme - protests at islamabad airport. the aircraft carrying pakistani cleric is prevented from landing. a man hunt over, a man accused of killing five of his comrades shot himself.

from elation to deflaigs - victory denied in the world cup. an egyptian court is expected at any moment to deliver a decision on the trial of three al jazeera journalists. they've been gaoled since december of falsely conspiring with the muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects the charges - we can go live now to cairo. in a moment. first this story. >> reporter: a verdict six months in the making for a crime doing their job.

peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have spent the last 177 days behind bars in egypt. they are accused of spreading false news and aiding the muslim brotherhood, which the government declared a terrorist organization. al jazeera rejects all charges. the prosecution pushes for the maximum - peter greste, 7 years and mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed 15 years. the evidence against them included video from a different channel, and work covering other parts of africa. his family is hopeful his court appearance on monday will be his last and the long-awaited start to freedom. >> when you look at the case, anybody with passing superficial

knowledge of the law realises that there can be one verdict. >> reporter: a fourth journalist abdullah al-shami was freed after spending 307 days in prison without being charged. his release was ordered tore health reasons. he had been on hunger strike since jan. he joint a chorus calling for the freedom of peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed. their trial begone on 20 february, and has triggered a global outcry. the newly elected president abdul fatah al-sisi promised to tackle the country and many issues, including free speech. the verdict could well be a first test. the australian prime minister says he told the

egyptian president the gaoled australian journalist peter greste is innocent and was only doing his job. >> in the end it's up to the egyptian justice system to do its job. i did my best to put it to the president that as an australian journalist, peter greste would not have been taking sides, he would have simply been reporting on the events that he saw before him. he certainly would would have had no interest in promoting the muslim brotherhood. he simply would have been providing his viewers with what he thought was the story of the day, because that's what australian journalists do. al jazeera journalists are not allowed to report from egypt. c.n.n. correspondent ian lee is in cairo. give us an idea of what is happening at the moment. i understand people are gathering outside the court where you are?

>> that's right. behind me, this is the entrance to the courthouse also, and toura prison where the defendants are being held. people are being let in. we have family members that are coming in. they are accepting or what they are hoping for an an acquittal. they have been after court stations. during the court sessions we heardest and the main standout people has been the lack of evidence during the trial. nothing to pin him to any of the charges brought towards them, and the prosecution has their star witnesses, a panel of experts from state tv to testify. during the testimony they contradict themselves. despite all this the prosecution is asking for the maximum sentence. while the family members and the lawyers are optimistic, egyptian courts are unpredictable.

>> give us - do you have an idea of what will be happening in court, and how the proceedings will take place? >> well, we are not expecting the proceedings to last very long. they passed final deliberations. the judge had about a peek to write what he believed the verdict was. this week, it was the last session last monday, and this short amount of time is what is giving a lot of people a lot of optimism that they could be acquitted. usually judge take a bit longer to write the guilty verdicts. we are not expecting a long session. they are scheduled to start at 10am local time. usually they are delayed a while. we are expecting a verdict within the next couple of hours. >> thank you very much, ian lee,

outside the court in cairo from c.n.n. thank you. kamal is following the rehabilitation on social media. >> a lot is happening, as you can imagine. the hashtag "free aj staff" has been around for a while. i want you to look at the trned. i'm pleased to say the amount of spots we see trending around the world is steadily increasing. let's have a look at some of the ears, not surprisingly in australia sydney is a strong area, where peter greste is from, and let me school - you can see the way the graft is trending higher, betting more traction with free aj staff. we'll keep an eye on the map throughout the day. you can expect there is plenty of activity. someone in "new york post"ed this, and this is something that al jazeera did. a full-page add in the "new york times", and it appeared in other international papers that said "this is what happiness when you

silence journalists", a black page in the "new york times" and observer in the "new york times", put together by our pr team. this is a picture outside the trial, outside the court. the tanks - what you can see in the background outside the toura prison, as we wait for the verdict. another thing i wanted to show you is this - this is where it started. free aj staff which you heard about for the last 187 days, thanks to three journalists that worked in nairobi, they took the photographs of people with, in that case, the egyptian flag saying if you silence one, it's words silencing it all. free aj staff which you our viewers worked hard to keem going. spare a thought for peter greste's parent as well.

journalism is not terrorism. they will find out shortly, as we all will, whether peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed will be on their way out of gaol in a few days. we can only hope so. more at aljazeera.com. let me find that for you really quickly on our website. it's at aljazeera.com "under fire", is where all the extra content is about the free aj staff, and you can contact us. please do, suspend to my way: you'll get all the latest news coming out. thank you. kamal will be updating us on social media activity as we follow the trial. >> we are hearing that journalists are not allowed in the cairo court. it has come in to us. we'll be updating throughout the day. >> let's move on to other news. >> the controversial cleric

qadri arrived in pakistan. thousands broke through barricades at islamabad where his plane was due to land. it was diverted to lahore, where at least 12 demonstrators were killed last week as supporters fought with police. let's give you background. he is based in canada. yahir ul kadri heads an organization that provides free education to children in pakistan. he led tens of thousands last year in pakistan, demanding that the government step down. he called off protests after a deal with the ppp. cam arl hyder joins us from

islamabad. his plane was diverted. what will happen next? what has been happening? >> to give you a little bit of background. he was due to hand at islamabad. he was travelling on a flight. it had to circle, it was not getting a green signal, it was diverted. his supporters gathered at the airport where there was a scuffle - had scuffles with the police, and they broke the perimeter and the cordon to get into the airport. we are told that qadri is on the emirates flight, he's refusing to come out of the aircraft and said he will not come out unless there is a senior military officer who assures him that he will be provided security. he says he has no confidence in the government, in the punjab or

in islamabad, and wants his plane to be taken back to islamabad, where his supporters are saying that they will not budge until the plane comes back to islamabad. kamal hyder live in islamabad, thank you. afghan participation president candidate abdullah abdullah supporters released a video which shows that a top official committed fraud. opposition says it's a fake. abdullah abdullah withdrew saying the outcome of the vote would be illegal. jennifer glasse is in kabul and joints us live. what can you tell us about the tapes? >> well, we don't know whether the tape is real. we spoke to the election commission in the last hour. they are trying to verify, figure out whether the tape is

what dr abdullah abdullah's party says it is. this is the secret yacht and the organization that does the logistics. whether it is this man on the tape - he denies the claims of fraud. now, this is not the first time that dr abdullah accused the man of fraud. he wanted the man to step down. abdullah abdullah said he will not cooperate with the condition. this is a serious setback for the election process. the commission is saying they are trying to verify whether the tape is real, whether the voice is what abdullah abdullah's campaign says it is. it is sophisticated technology to verify whether it's true. they are working on it. a statement today or tomorrow. >> jennifer glasse in kabul for us.

thank you. okay, you are watching al jazeera. let me take you through the top stories this hour - a verdict is expected at any moment now in the trial of three al jazeera journalists. they have been gaoled in egypt since december and are accused of collaborating with the muslim brotherhood. the controversial cleric qadri arrived in pakistan, leading protests against the nouri al-maliki government and accuses it of being corrupt. afghan presidential candidate released a tape proving that top officials committed fraud. it's been said to be a fake. authorities say they have captured a soldier accused of killing five colleagues. there was a manhunt tracking him down near the boarder.

harry fawcett joins us from seoul. what other details can you give us? >> it's after a 24 hour standoff that this came to an end, and did so in a dramatic face fashion. the man was surrounded by police. there was an exchange of fire by a checkpoint, yesterday, sunday, afternoon. and it's - it is said by the defense ministry that he turned his rifle, the rifle which he's understood to have begun the shooting on saturday night when five soldiers were killed, seven injured, on himself, injured himself in the torso, and it was at that point that the soldiers moved in, and they started the process to take him to hospital. he arrived at hospital, the same hospital with some people that he injured, where they are receiving treatment. the defence military is saying they began talks with him this

morning at 20 past eight, and this man, sergeant lim, a conscript, a 22 year-old. he asked to speak to his father and he spoke to his father on the phone and to his father and his elder brother there on the scene, apparently, when the suicide attempt took place. >> are they closer to understanding why he turned on his colleagues like this? >> that is something they say the investigators will be looking into. it's part of the investigation. also there'll be the more nuts and bolts elements - how he carried out the attack and how he was able to stay at large for a long time. what we do know about him is he was under observation for having allegedly failed to adapt to military life and that he was at one point given a category a risk assessment - meaning that he wouldn't have been able to

serve in a front line border post such as the one that he carried the attack on. it was downgraded in november last year, and that was why he was there, able to have access to live ammunition, and the grenade that he threw, and this k2 rifle. that will be something they'll look into. >> harry fawcett in seoul. thank you. now, u.s. secretary of state john kerry has just arrived in baghdad for talks with iraqi leaders, as they face a growing rebellion. fighters consolidated their hold over the border, seizing two crossings in jordan over the weekend. a surge. i.s.i.l.-led rebellion came in the north with the capture of mosul, iraq's is second-largest city. fighting continues for the baiji

oil refinery which process as quart are of iraq's oil. a second border crossing into syria from al-qaim running from zhor province to haditha, which has rebels on the outskirts. they hold the border crossing at alawi to the north. the latest taken. that's the only major road west into jordan. i.s.i.l. fighters have taken lutpa giving them control of this highway. we go to baghdad... date

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programme in progress. >>..we are receiving huge amounts of volunteers to send to training centers. >> reporter: while these men cheer before joining the battle the crisis is worsening. >> calls for nouri al-maliki to resign is increasing. he is defiant, refusing to bow to pressure. the u.s. called on iraqi leaders to form a unity government to fight the i.s.i.l. that seems hard to achieve while nouri al-maliki is in power. before heading to iraq, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry met with the new egyptian leader in cairo and says abdul fatah al-sisi promised to review human rites issues and legislation. half a billion in military aid has been released after being frozen since the coup. kerry is the highest ranging official to visit since abdul fatah al-sisi was elected president. >> he gave me a strong sense of

his commitment to make certain that the process he has put in place, a re-evaluation of human rites legislation, a re-evaluation of the judicial process, and other choices that are available are very much on his mind. the israeli army said it fired on targets, including a military command center in retaliation for the death of a 15-year-old who died in a blast in the golan heights on sunday. the military says it was a deliberate attack. it's the first fatality on israel's side of the frontier since the start of civil war. two others were injured in the explosion. the israeli government is searching for three young settlers still, missing for 10 days from the occupied west bank. hamas is accused of kidnapping

them. jane ferguson reports that confro confro confrontations between israeli soldiers and palestines are a daily occurrence. >> people in the west bank have not seen scenes like this for a decade. the military operation includes raids and arrests. a week and a half ago three young settlers went missing in the west bank. the palestine authority is cooperating with the israelis in the search. this is angering some palestinians. on saturday night they turned on their own police force. some palestinians believe the operation is plant to divide. >> it is simple - weaken the palestine authority, to be sure that the palestinian situation gets to a point where they can do what they have been wanting to do - annex the majority of the west bank land, declare the greater israel project. two palestinians were killed on saturday night. as israeli lands continue, they

are increasingly met by angry crowds of palestinians. the confront dayses that follow are met -- confrontations that follow are met with live fire. >> the israeli government says their soldiers are responding to attacks. >> we have no intention of hurting anyone maliciously. our forces are behaving in a manner necessary for self-defence and occasionally there are those wounded. >> despite the safe, there's no sign of missing individuals. with anger growing across the west bank, the people conducting the search are centring to contend with age-old politics. police in kosovo clashed with ethnic albanian rioters.

it happened in a town where rioters were protesting. police responded with tear gas and rubber coated bullets. >> as you can see, the outcome of this process is 13 injured policeman. 10 citizens were injured and received treatment. it's certainly injured themselves, because we, as a kosovo police force did not use force apart from the tear gas. >> let's get more from al jazeera reporter who was there earlier. he joins us on the line from kosovo. >> police immediately fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, as protesters set on fire six police vehicles. u.s. soldiers, n.a.t.o. forces boarded a bridge. 13 police officers and 10 civilians were wounded. by evening the situation was

formed. n.a.t.o. troops, european union and kosovo police are holding their positions in the main bridge. an international summit on eliminating the scourge of landmines is opening in mozambique. it will look at how much progress was made since the devices were banned. called the ottawa treaty aimed at banning landmines came into being in 1989. signatories great to destroy stockpiles and clear all mines. 115 states signed, but the united states, russia, india, israel and pakistan have not. since 1999 more than 44 million mines have been destroyed. we have this report from mozambique's capital. >> reporter: this woman's foot was shattered by a land mine, her aunt killed. sheets an activist -- she's an

activist trying to raise awareness about the land mines left over. peanuts is the base of the meal, she struggles to find work and needs help. >> translation: if the government gives subsidies, that would be good. if they give food, it will be gone too quickly. it will be best to have help entering the job market so i can provide for myself. >> the immediate help is mine detection. to do that it uses rats. mozambique helped to launch the antipersonnel mine band contention. three-quarters of the nation is on board and mozambique is almost rid of landmines. mozambique is a success story. the ban may only be considered successful when all 35 of the remaining countries that haven't signed up do so, and all landmines that are stockpiled

are destroyed. when the ban came into effect, 20,000 people a year were killed or injured by landmines and other unexploded ordinances. now that is down to 900. the international committee of the red cross says the stigma attacked to landmines may shame the remaining countries into joining the ban. >> there's no or little use of antipersonnel mines today. virtually no production or transfer. even by those states outside the convention. we feel it's a matter of time between that stigma and that unacceptability of antipersonnel mines - bringing the countries into the told. people have suffered from the legacy around the world. great progress has been made 15 years after the ban - the work is far from over. and to brazil, the world cup

producing more drama on sunday. belgium made the last 16. history made in portugal, keeping everyone on the edge of their seat. we report on a roller-coaster day in brazil. the equation was simple for portugal after losing 4-0 to germany, they needed to beat the u.s.a. the world player of the year, cristiano ronaldo was in typically showery form from the get-go, but it was his former manchester united team nate nanny that scored the opening goal. portugal one up after nine minutes. in the son half the u.s. -- second half the u.s. got an equalizer through a sensational strike by jermain jones. chris dempsey with nine minutes to go looked like he september the u.s. through making it 2-1. with second remaining a brilliant cristiano ronaldo cross was headed in by ver aila.

2-2 - both teams with all to play for in the final group matches. in porto aleg ray nigeria went into their game. in this group h clash, 3-up, algeria up 4-2. they play russia in the time group h game. russia is on the verge of going out after being beaten 1-0 by geale judge teenager. the 19-year-old became the first teenager to score at the world cup since lionel messi in 2006. syria's art collectors will head to london on monday for sotheby's sale of impressionist and art. the star attraction is in, including claude monet's

paymenting "water lillies", expected to go for as much as $50 million. works from picasso and rehn war will be featured. you can keep up to date with the news on our website. all the latest updates and stories. go to aljazeera.com. . ♪ >> hello. i am richard ginsburg at the listening post. this week, iraq, the seekual. isil is gaining on the ground. who if anyone controls the story? al jazeera reporters behind bars in egypt, one released, three more to go. from the ashes of the old rise the voices of the new. spain's news