♪ the sunni and fighting in iraq is called a new islamic impact. this is al jazeera live from doha and also on the program the afghan taliban claims it's gaining ground in a major offensive in the south. iraq welcome the biggest boosts yet and the prime minister supports kurdish independence and diversity in the biggest

city is talking about the world cup. ♪ first turmoil in iraq and sunni rebels say the group leading the fighting in iraq has a counterfeit or islamic empire from what it controls om-aleppo and we are in baghdad. >> reporter: in an earlier message and a manifest on the web a line in the sand has been drawn, islamic state is the new name for isil and it's a declaration and establishment of them and saying the territories they control are united under the leadership of the new power and it will bring together aleppo and others under the black flag and in 1924 the last

time it happened and they have been asked to pledge allegiance and have not reacted to the statement but fighting continues for the town. this announcement will put pressure on iraq and syria and designed to get people to ral lie around the group's cause but it will have a political impact here in iraq. on july first the parliament comes together to discuss the formation of a new government, this announcement plus other pressure also be a big test for maliki to see if he can handle the job and natural allies as the sheer political party are comfortable and the prime minister has the support. >> translator: i believe the chances for the current prime minister to run for a third term are very low in comparison to other candidates and we believe

by the iatola it's better to get the consensus of all the political partners across the political and sectarian divide and sunni politicians called for the prime minister to go and say that his exclusion style is to blame. >> policies ended his political life expectancy, his great failure not being up to the task is not managing state institutions and they are command in a way and different segments of the iraqi society and it's these factors that helped him lose support >> maliki did win the popular vote in iraq and got enough seats but not enough to form a government so he needs alliances he needs to find with other political blogs to remain prime minister and islamic states upping the pressure and all sides is mounting. i'm with al jazeera baghdad.

and we are joined live from baghdad and isil has a new identity and new territory and ambitions and how is this going down with other sunni groups that are fighting in iraq? >> so far the other sunni groups have not reacted but very slowly there is some reaction coming out of baghdad. there is no official reaction but i am hearing from key figures within political advisors actually who are in disbelief that such a thing could happen and said who does this man think he is? so it borders on mockery as well, how can this man do this? i mean what justification does he have? so that is the kind of reaction that we are beginning to see here in iraq and obviously there is no official reaction right now but it will put some pressure on prime minister maliki and people will look at

him and not just ordinary but in the political and saying how can he manage to let things get to this stage and a group not heard of years ago and now make a border in your country. >> in tuesday to elect a new iraqi government and the prime minister had been very confident after the election of securing a third term, to what extent has the government loss of control in northern iraq and the sunni up rising have on it? >> the flood gates opened for prime minister maliki and began international with americans and britt -- british saying there needs to be a unit and he has sectarian policies and within iraq people who would be natural allies to the prime minister began to criticize him as well and sunni blogs here began to criticize him also so he doesn't have the kind of political support he had even six months

ago or two months ago during the election and faces a tough fight but prime minister maliki has been here before and astute player and knows how to back people who give him loyalty and we don't know about the parliamentary session and could take eight months like 2010 or just a day is what many politicians would like to see. >> reporter: thank you very much and we are live from baghdad. across the border in syria the opposition has responded to a new counterfeit in iraq and syria and sss is prepared to cooperate with the united states and allies to defeat the sunni rebel groups that calls itself the islamic state and the group formally known as isil celebrated and the sss says the key to dee feeting the al-qaeda off shoot is strength the armies

and they set up an operation center to combat the so called islamic state. these pictures are said to show fighters going to the province that lies near the border of iraq and the group has control over much of the area. in other world's news the taliban says it now has a foot hold in southern afghanistan after a battle with them, government forces are fighting to push back assault by 800 taliban soldiers on check point and military posts and afghan army wants to prove it can beat the taliban and jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> this is a key province in southern afghanistan and long a haven for ins susur -- insurge and this is a hub for opium and

the first summer that afghan forces are totally in the lead and especially southern afghanistan and they fought the taliban last year and lost 120 forces and a difficult summer long battle and this fight has been going on more than ten days and afghan officials are saying at least 28 have been killed and 28 afghan forces have been killed and many people fled the area because of the fighting and this has been a sustained as assault and the taliban says they have a foot hold here and this is a test as nato prepares to pull the remaining forces out by the end of 2014, it's a key southern province not far from kandahar and the border and many people say there are pakistan links to the insurgency and it's

unclear to see what is going on, there are no journalists in there and they try to push back the sustained taliban attack. >> pakistan launched a ground offensive near the afghan border after the government evacuated half a million residents from the tribal region and it has a house to house search, a main time in wazistan and 15 taliban fighters have been killed in the initial ground advance. now too thigh gear yeah where gunmen carried out deadly attacked on village's in the north on sunday. on worshippers attending the mass and death toll unknown but they believe it to be in the dozens and attacks took place where 200 high school students were kidnapped by boko haram in april and this is the latest

from andrew simmons who is at the capital and it's looking much bigger than everybody else thought it would be and tell us what you are hearing on the ground there about the situation in the north. >> reporter: yes, initially reports suggested there were ten dead. it did become clear from the outset it would be higher than that. all witnesses and official government officials we have spoken to say that the suspected boko haram insurgents attacked the village's and a convow, at least one church was set abelize and chasing villagers running in the bush and shooting them and appears that boko haram have really the situation whereby they can attack at-will in this area now. we are hearing there could be dozens dead and we spoke to the

police commissioner and he confirms an incident has taken place and says he is investigating but cannot give details. this is becoming a frequent situation and the army and police are unable to give information and detail about this and causing frustration among news media and among people who live in the area which is a security zone cutoff from any real outside support. >> and attacks by boko haram seem relentless and is the government doing anything to change its strategy in the north? >> well, if it is then it's not apparent on the ground. there is a growing acceptance that the military is up against it. the boko haram forces do seem extremely well equipped. they have been all along since the whole campaign started in 2009. but never before has there been this frequency of attacks and

not just the northeast but the capitol and wednesday's attack in which 22 were killed and then also in bouchi last friday night there were 11 people killed there and of course on top of all of this there is still the agonizing uncertainty for parents of the school girls, 276 of them who were kidnapped from the school which is only five kilometers from these attacks. they are still missing, 219 still missing, day 77 now of this whole trauma for these people, nothing about the girls it would appear and nothing the government is sharing and it's a total message a real feeling among nigeria and a feeling of desperation about this. >> thank you very much, that was al jazeera andrew simmons live and still ahead on al jazeera

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islamic state and now it wants to be simply called the islamic state. the taliban established a foot hold in southern afghanistan after a ten-day battle against afghan forces and fighting to push back assault by 800 taliban fighters on police checkpoints on military posts. and nigeria security forces have released details about a series of deadly attacks in the north and gunmen attacked three village's and dozens are believed to be dead. now the day before iraq's parliament reconvenes it's apparent they loss the support of religious leaders and the iatola sold political blocks in parliament to choose a prime minister by tuesday and could hasten the end of maliki's leadership if he cannot pull a government together in time and the army has also voiced

disapproval of maliki and called for new faces to tackle the sunni rebellion animal kie accused political opponent of interfering with a, parliamentary process to block him from government. sunni arabs makeup the country and it's thought 15% of the country is kurds and shittes makeup the rest of the region. there is a call for an independent kurdish state and benjamin netanyahu is the first to call for kurdish independence and it clashes with the u.s. preference to keep iraq united. >> translator: we should support international efforts to strengthen jordan and support the aspiration for independence.

>> translator: regarding the kurds they are fighting people who proved their political commitment and moderation and they deserve political independence. >> reporter: and jane ferguson has more from the west bank. >> reporter: the speech given by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to a think tank last night encompassed israel policy at the moment and would call for k suching rdistan and support a new move and this is not new from the government, days ago they spoke to u.s. secretary of state john kerry saying an independent kurdistan is not an entirely new policy coming from israel itself and mentioned in his concerns there could be a spill over of the troubles in iraq and syria. he has already buff te-- buffer

the line with syria and intensified the fighting there because so many rockets spilled over in the last two years, however, in his speech last night he drew on something he mentioned nine months ago, he would like to build a large fence or wall on the border with jordan and that is on the valley between jordan and the west bank and he mentioned it before but mentioning it now he linked it to any possible peace deal with palestinians and saying as a result because of what the israelis see as a security threat along that border should the trouble spill into jordan, even if there was a peace deal with the palestinians they would maintain military presence in the occupied west bank for the foreseeable future. >> looking at other stories making headlines around the world, india, rescuers pulled survivors from the rebel from a 11 story apartment building and it collapsed on saturday killing

19 people and five officials from a construction company have been arrested for ignoring safety procedures and north korea says it will put him on trial for crimes against the state and u.s. citizens jeffrey and matthew miller are being held in the isolated country. ukraine's cease fire end monday night and facing international pressure to extend it but porshenko will crack down on separatists and five soldiers were killed in battles in the past few days. now a lawyer hired by general motors is expected to outline the details of the auto makers compensation program and it is for victims who died or suffered injuries due to facility ignition switches and we report. >> there is no reason that only two weeks after he died i got the first recall. they knew about it.

>> reporter: stories of loss have been broadcast internationally. >> gm needs to be held accountable for their actions. >> reporter: now gm says it will make amends. and they hired kenneth fineberg to find out the price on a life in a process where bankers receive more than waiters based on earning potential and paid millions by bp to settle things following the deep water horizon disaster among much criticism he was shieldingly the oil company and they acknowledge 13 deaths and 47 injuries that cut the power and disabled the airbags and it shows 309 deaths due to airbags not deploying with 229 injured and it's not clear if fineberg will limit it to airbag deployment and include loss of

control due to power steering and brake assist failure and it would increase the number of claimants and economic loss of millions of the recalled cars but they are not troubled and a fraction of gm reserve funds of $33 billion will be used and prospect of department of justice fine is slugged off spent billions by the company to rescue the company. >> and politics for saving the company and they will not damage it because it doesn't make sense. >> they hope they will accept a quick pay out and saying it's not legally liable for incidents that occurred before the restructuring in 2009. >> our daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, wives and husbands are gone because they were a cost of doing business, gm's style. >> reporter: but fineberg will

have to make a convincing case on monday for people not to use the formidable groups of lawyers they already had who in the past successfully secured millions from big tobacco and others, al jazeera in washington. philippines joined forces for a week-long navel training exercise and held in disputed waters near the coast of china and the philippines army says it's a regular event and not related to territorial disputes in the region and it will strength enties between the two countries and improve navel operations. india launched five foreign satellites from the southern state of andrew predesh and singapore and france and germany were there to witness the

launch. manmar government started a citizen verification process in the state and the idea is to weed out what it calls illegal immigrants but they say it's a persecution tactic and we have more from a refugee camp. >> reporter: in the eyes of the government people like him do not have a legal status and he is a muslim ethnic minority but under pressure to describe himself as something else. >> i was born here in city and my father and my grandfather and many generations were born here. so i will not accept it. reporter: the government uses the term to say it describes the group as migrants from neighboring bangladesh. >> translator: there is widespread suspicion that they

have illegally migrated into the country, that is why people here have been demanding they scrutinize citizenship. >> reporter: they are doing that for muslims in the state where many of the countries live abthe relationship between the buddhist and rajinga is hard and it left dozens dead and hundreds of people displaced. the government doesn't recognize them as a group and when it carried out a census in april said do not include them and it's being used in the citizenship screening exercise and muslims without citizenship papers are given a chance to proof they or their parents lived in the country before 1948 and only those who identify themselves, another ethnic

muslim minority are eligible and many lack the necessary documents. kin kin kin is muslim and her parents are citizens but somehow did not register her or her siblings and by law she should be a citizen but her parents lost their identification cards during the riots. >> translator: my father said he wants to see us as citizens of this country before he dies. generations of our family have lived here and he will try to do what he can. >> reporter: for muslims at least the path to citizenship is easier because it's a group the government recognizes but here they will deny their background for a chance to be a citizen, manmar. ♪ and brazil two more teams made it to the quarter finals of the world cut and neither lands here

and dutch and mexico are out and costa-rica has a spot in quarter finals and went to shoot out and greece on the 7th kid and costa-rica got the kick and sent them through. the national football team has a bitter sweet home coming monday and more bitter than sweet and eliminated from the football's world cup in the first round and they through taffy as they arrived at the airport, in south korea eat taffy is sometimes used as an insult. brazil is one of the most diverse countries in the world and supporting a team in the world cup many people have

divided loyalty and from south palo we report. >> reporter: nigerian preparing for kickoff of the eagles, the nickname of their football team and it's south palo where it's tense at time watching the game but then there is a goal. [cheering] south palo is a city that was built hundreds of years ago by immigrants and arab, italian and portuguese and it jumped to 40,000, a new waive of people looking for a better life in brazil like this man who came here six years ago. >> originally from nigeria and i will never forget that, i cheer for nigeria and brazil and cheer for nigeria too because that is

the place i come from. >> reporter: nearly 20 million people who live in the region of south palo and immigrants from all corners of the globe that call the city home so in that way south palo is the perfect place to catch the world cup spirit. the neighborhood of south palo the heart of the japanese community in brazil that is one million strong, the largest community of japanese outside of japan and she came here 80 years ago. >> translator: since i'm in brazil i have to cheer for brazil national team and brazil is in my head now. if there is a game between brazil and japan would be very hard and i would have to cheer for a tie so nobody would fight. >> reporter: this being the world cup down the street they gathered to sing the japanese national anthem before a resent game and culture is different

but the city is proving one thing is the same, the euphoria when your native country scores, i'm in south palo. >> reporter: reminder you can keep up to date with all the news on our website, al jazeera.com. >> there are two booms that are having a big impact on america. we'll tell you how the energy boom and the baby boom are shaping the economy and much more. and the bold bosses who are making thursday the new friday, at companies all over america. we'll examine the week. if you think you can pay more for health care, it's about to get worse. i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi. th