their voices out there, and al jazeera america is doing just that. israel hits gaza with more air strikes as talks in try ky rocairo falter. hello, you are watching al jazerra live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next third minutes america goes back to war in iraq with a second wave of air strikes against sunni rebels. nigeria becomes the latest west calf ran nation to declare state of insurgent over ebola. and together at last. after 30 years. giving hope to the families of after generaargentina's other sn

children. well to him to the program. israel has hit some 50 targets inside gaza since the end of the sees fire on friday morning. at least five people have died in renewed violence, including three children. and those 50 strikes matched by 50 rockets fired by palestinian fighters across the border. although there have been no more israeli deaths. the retreat back in to violence as neither side has made meaningful concessions in talks no cairo. ins israel began its assault on gaza a month ago. 64 soldiers and three civilians including a thai national have been killed. gaza's health minister says attacks have killed 1,898 palestinians, many three-quarters civilians, according to the united nation says. add to that almost 10,000

palestinians have been injured and more than 171,000 people living in u.n. shelters. al jazerra's andrew simmons is monitoring events for us in gaza. and, andrew, as we come to you, let's just start with the initial shelling that we've heard of on saturday morning. can you bring us up to speed on where that's happening and what's been hit? >> reporter: yes, i can give you the information for the past hour and a half things have been quite fast moving in that time. we now have another dead person. it's not clear yet whether that's adult, child, civilian or otherwise. that is an air attack on a mosque in mid gaza strip. several were injured in that attack. also attacks on rural land, there has been at least one casualty there. and another attack on a social

club in a camp. we understand that there were no civilian casualties there. also an attack on a house in rafah, at least three mosques attacked on -- in the early hours of the morning in darkness. and so sustained action by the israeli forces not calm by any means, but then not intense either. as far as the palestinian factions are concerned, at least five rockets fired in daylight hours, possibly more. so really, no change now. no indication that this is all about to go in to ceasefire mode and so still a level of complete despair amongst the civilian population. >> indeed certainly since the ceasefire ended just over 24 hours ago, andrew, again the population concerned about what's going on on the ground there and perhaps also keeping a very close eye on what's going

on both in jerusalem and in cairo. >> reporter: that's right. it's hard for people to make out really what the exact position is to cut through all the rhetoric and the natural negotiating positions taken by all sides in this conflict. but it remains to be seen what is going to develop in cairo in the sense that the persistent message seems to be that the door is not completely closed. and that various palestinian negotiators are insist that go they will stay in cairo until there is some sort of deal. that is not all of them saying that, this is the message that we are getting from some sources as far as the israelis are concerned, they are adamant that they will not lift the blockade per se, they will make concessions along the way, by they want to have control on the gaza strip unless there is a total demille ter saying of the strip and that is not acceptable

to hamas. as far as hamas is concerned it wants israel to agree to a series of measures which include lifting the blockade, which include a free seaport constructions which also include the freeing of many prisoners. israel is not preparing for along with that and remains to be seen whether or not there is any common ground. >> of course you will be monitoring events for us andrew throughout the day. we'll come back to you as the situation develops, for the moment, thank you. the united states has launched a second wave of air strikes against sunni rebels. predator drones and f18 fighters jets attacked around the capital. the white house says protecting the city is their top priority. this u.s. military video shows rebel artillery units being destroyed by 500-pound laser-guided bombs. fighters from the islamic state had advanced with 40-kilometers,

which is home for the u.s. consolate and thousands of americans. let's just bring in our correspondent jane who has been monitoring vents over thmonitort 48 hours. jane, just bring us up to speed on the strikes, the effects of the strikes and the response by people on the ground to what's been happening. >> reporter: well, kurdish officials are certainly welcoming the strikes. iraq's foreign minister occurred -- told reporters last night that basically they had been highly effective. that they had destroyed an artillery battery as well as a convoy aiming to attack kurdish positions. but more than that, he and other kurdish officials say they have raised the morale of kurdish troops and given them space to regroup and go back in to try to push back the islamic state. now, while some of the embassy, some of the cons let's here are evacuating, including the british consolate, the city is

full of other people who are actually arriving. those are iraqis who have been pushed out of areas where there has been fighting with the islamic state and where there has been the threat of air strikes. we spoke to some of those people. on him overnight war has come to the kurdish region. many of these families were between the city of mosul and another. mosul fell to the islamic state, formally known as the islamic state of iraq and the levant. this week the city fell. now yet another outpost of the islamic state. the kurdish flag replaced by the group's own. this family theft their home in mosul when it fell to the i.s. in june. two days ago he left another camp. >> translator: we heard that the islamic state might come and storm the camp, it was in complete chaos with the withdrawal of the forces, so i packed up my family and we left.

>> reporter: heading west this was the only roof over their heads that they could find. the kurdish region has always taken pride in being the safest and most prosperous parts of iraq. in this neighborhood, apartments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. but in the last couple of days, buildings like this have become the last refuge of those with nowhere else to go. and an indication of how quickly things can fall apart. for some iraqis, it's been falling apart for a while. he has been disabled since sunni gunmen straight his family's home in mosul two years ago, he hasn't received proper medical care. >> translator: we went to the hospital, the doctors said i need to have my leg amputated and i said how will i survive afterwards, they just said we need to cut them off. >> reporter: his family is shia from iraq's ancient minority, they have moved three times in the last two years.

>> translator: we came a 3:00 in the morning the day before yesterday. we heard air strikes and there were fighter jets in the skies. >> reporter: for decades iraqi muslims, christians and other minorities lived peacefully together. no longer. also a shia, is six months pregnant and terrified of delivering her baby here. she wants to go where she has heard they might find a house. here local people provide food, but there is no shelter. and there is no certainty that with a widening conflict they won't have to move again. >> so many conflicts it's always the civilians that seem to suffer. jane, with the assumption and certainly analysis that perhaps as many as 200 u.s. special forces are on the ground and with u.s. aerial assaults, do you get a sense from politicians there, and everybody the public at large, that the involvement of the u.s. now is instrumental in to pushing back i.s. forces

and that this will have an impact? >> reporter: absolutely. it still is a bit touch and go, but it's important to realize just how close those fighters were to the city. it seems extraordinary, this is a prosperous, well-developed city, lots of foreigners, lots of business going on, just fort kilometers from here the islamic state was approaching that's what really triggered the u.s. action. according to the u.s. official and kurdish officials now that the air strikes have begun they can take out the major position that his leave the iraqi forces, particularly the kurdish ones in a better position to react with the u.s. special forces who are here trying to go in and push them back further. after that reclaiming cities say much longer project and that one is going to be much trickier. >> indeed.

it's an ongoing operation, we'll come back to you, jane, as that develops for the moment thank you for joining us. two west africa to in a national emergency has been taken over owe bowl actual nigeria follows knew guinea, sierra leone that have already declared national emergencies, in total 961 people have died from the disease. >> approving this special intervention plan and the immediate release of 9.1 billion layer lira for the implementation. ongoing steps to continue the establishment of additional isolation centers, case management, contact tracing, deployment of additional personnel screening at borders and the procurement of items and

facilities. the you were has threatened sanctions against political leaders in south sudan if they don't sign a peace deal by sunday of fighting between government troops and rebel leaders have displaced at least 1.5 million people since december. at least 40,000 people are staying at a refugees camp. aid agents@is as describe conditions there as horrifying and an afront to human dignity. staying another continent and in the central african republic, fighting has separated hundreds of families. many children know that their parents are dead and some have become child soldiers, but other continue to look for their fathers and mothers, a report now from the town. >> reporter: despite everything they have gone through, these children manage to put on a brave space, religious-based violence has tore families apart. children saw their lives unravel in an instant.

>> translator: men carrying machetes arrived and took my father to the forest and killed him. they cut up my mother in front of me and killed me too. i escaped. >> reporter: some parts of the kept are you are too dangerous to reach. the real numbers of children affected aren't known. she is one of the few people who have take then or upon fans and children who don't know where their parents are. >> translator: war brings suffering. i couldn't leave these children on the street. that's why i took them in. >> reporter: there is a shaky ceasefire between the mainly muslims and christians. these children are all muslims living in the divided town of boda. soldiers have created a buffer zone between christians and muslims. french and african union soldiers try to keep the sides apart but it's not always easy sometimes there are ask you in . he doesn't know if his mother is dead or alive. >> translator: my older brother

and i ran away when the fighting started. we came here no sleep in the church with other christians. i want to find my mother. >> reporter: reuniting familieses is slow and sometimes difficult because of the insecurity. >> for 2014 we reub reube if i i indicated 20 children, it's an ongoing process because at the same time we open new research. >> reporter: some parents escaped to neighboring countries when the violence broke out. finding them is going to be a lot harder. al jazerra, boda in the central african republic. well, still to come here on al jazerra, hundreds of families pack up and leave the libyan capital to escape the fighting. >> reporter: i am tim at the edinburgh fringe festival where we are a long way from russia where the whistle blower edward

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and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. welcome back to al jazerra. here is a reminders of our top stories. israel has launched more strikes a gaza on saturday morning. hamas has also fired rockets at israeli in all more than 1,890 palestinians have been killed since israel began its assault. the united states has launched a second wave of air strikes in iraq.

attacking the islamic state positions around the kurdish capital offer bill. good luck jonathan nigeria's president has declared a national emergency over ebola he has approved an $11 million plan to contain the out break, it follows guinea, sierra leone and liberia who have already declared national emergencies. the two candidates have agreed to end a bitter dispute over the result and work together. jennifer class has more from kabul. >> reporter: i a united front for what's being called a united government. u.s. senator john kerry joined the hopefuls to announce the speeding of the process to announce a president. >> we will speed up the the

process. what unites us is far greater than what divided us during the campaign. >> reporter: it includes a new post for chief executive officer to be appointed by whoever loses the presidency. but the responsibilities of that office have not yet been defined. >> i hope that the atmosphere of campaigning is behind us. and then a new face in the political life that people have promised on. >> reporter: they need a few phase, the review of all 8 million ballots hasn't been going smoothly. oath parties have raised objections over the rules, slowing the process, only 10% of the 24,000 boxes have been looks at so far, but now there is a renewed commitment. >> both parties now agreeing to the rules of the road, both parties have agreed to stay at it. both parties have agreed to live by the outcome. >> reporter: the two candidates say that they hope a replacement for outgoing president hamid

karzai is named by the end of the month. that will be a tight deadline with so many ballots still to be reviewed. and details of who will do what in the unity government still to be worked out. both contenders agree their country needs a new leader soon to end the uncertainty that's paralyzed the economy and undermined the trust of the people. jennifer glasse kabul. thousands of people protested in libya both for and against the newly-elected parliament. police were called to disburse crowds in the capital tripoli after rival demonstrators attacked one another. armed police vehicles closed off the streets in the center of the city. in this report mean people are trying to escape the violence in triply. >> reporter: more families on the run. hundreds of them have tried to escape from the violence in the capital of tripoli by coming

here. >> one of the shells hit a street that is around 100 meters way from my house. my brother-in-law came from an area close to the airport, i also met a friends who came here, and his family follows him. he spoke of tragedies over the there. >> reporter: it's actually the militias that are leading the fighting in triply. they are trying to take over the airport. it's being defended by another militia. the fighting has lasted for almost a month and killed more than 200 people. the capital is now two dangerous for many. people are organizing shelters for their fellow libyans. >> translator: we received the families and provide them with financial aid. then we give them free accommodation and after that start making contact with them in order to respond to their needs. >> reporter: holiday resorts have been turned in to refugees camps for the shocked families. from there, they have watched as

libya seems to edge closer to a civil war. with auld ali who fought together to bring down a dictator now fighter each other. at tacked have led embassies to close and foreign national working in libya to leave the country. al jazerra is demand being the release of its three journalists who have now been impressed in egypt for 224 days. month ham he had officer her, peter greste and ba there are mohamed. in june they were given seven year sentences, mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession, one that he picked up at a protest. for almost 40 years hundreds of grandparents in argentina have been searching for their stolen grandchildren. in the 1970s, thousands of babies were taken by the military regime and illegally put up for adoption.

as daniel reports one grandmother's dream has finally come true. >> reporter: with his grandmother estella. it's an image that has moved and delighted arjen toon a. she's the high-profile president of the grandmothers. an organization that searches for their stolen grandchildren. >> translator: the meeting was marvelous. very nice. with a lot of love, compassion, wonderful hugs, totally unexpected. >> reporter: he is the 114th stolen child to be discovered and put in touch with his birth family. there are hundreds more out there who have not come forward. some know, others suspect, more probably have no idea. >> translator: this situation that i am living through that others have experienced can serve to boost the search. so that we can all understand the need to heal some of these wounds have have been open for so long.

>> reporter: she is still waiting. her only son jorge and his eight months pregnant wife stella were taken by the military authorities in october 1976. and never seen again. she believes her daughter-in-law had a boy. >> translator: they always talked about a boy called martin because they knew that he would be a boy. so, of course, i continued to search for a blond by dow with blue eyes who was grich that maim third circumstance year old ago. >> reporter: she was one of the founders of the campaigning group demands to go know what happened to the estimating 30,000 people killed under military rule. she celebrated with estella, her hope that she would be celebrating with her own grandson next. >> it gives us strength and hope. i feel martin is close. i feel martin is close. >> reporter: 114 recovered grand grandchildren, argentina is celebrating as gradually it

heals its wounds from its dark past. but 31 years after the military left office it's still battling for officers, searching for justice. some of the grandmothers have died without finding their lost grandchildren, she is now 88. her confidence boosted, but she, too, will soon -- that she will will immediate her lost grandson and find some comfort from a taj i can past. police in the united states say they are treating of death of a former white house spokesman jim brady as homicide. mr. brady was seriously injured in 1981 during an attempted assassination of the then president ronald regular an. he died on monday of complications linked to his gunshot wounds. lawyers for the would-be assistant john hinkley doubt that new charges could be brought. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. staying in the u.s. the u.s. and u.k. have warned

russia not to use humanitarian pretext for sending troops for nba to ukraine. they have pushed separatist rebels out of many areas in the east, one of their major victories what in slo slow involving. >> reporter: they are learning how to help those srafbgted by this war. the fighting has stopped but the scars of the battle have been deep. many are too young to understand why their world was turned upside down. >> translator: everyone is anxious and worried about the future. it's very hard for people to deal with this unstable situation. and to find resource to his cope. the symptoms we see in children are speech impediment, bed wetting, age side sao*eu anxietf certain sounds. >> reporter: around the city

there are constant reminders of what happened here. relative calm has been restored, after weeks of turmoil. just over a month ago, this was the scene of they have fighting. reconstruction work here has started. but questions linger about how to rebuild lives. and how to help those coming from further afield. not far from the city, a place renowned for peace and tranquility. holiday homes now turned in to temporary shelters for families like hers. >> translator: every day we are worried about our relatives and we cry. we try calling them but there is no phone connection. my brother is back home and my old brother. i would like to return home ideally today but we have a terrible war raging there. >> reporter: but she and the four people she is sharing this tiny shell iter with will have to stay put. as both sides try to get the upper hand in this conflict. emma heyward, al jazerra,

slovyansk in eastern ukraine. it's been more than a year since former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden leaked details of america's spy program making him a trade tore some and an inspiration to others, fill lavell report from the edwin brook fringe fet value in scott land. >> reporter: true had head of edward snowden 18 months ago, they know who he is now, his reservations of mass surveillance has given his government headaches. but they have given others inspiration and ideas. surveillance is in this year, it's one of the big themes at the 2014 fringes, people watching shows about shows about people watching people. it seems when we come to the subject of big brother, the audience just can't get enough. just look at light this is a dark vision of the future, directly inspired by the snowden revelations it's like 1984 and our 2014.

>> what was perceived before as being far fetched and kind of paranoid is now the reality. we are being watched, you know, on skype, text message and i feel very uncomfortable about the fact that people are watching me and everybody else without our content we were never asked. i want to engage in that debate and make a piece of theater that makes people think about this. >> reporter: notoriously yours comes all the way from australia. a tale of secrets, lies, texas and surprise, surveillance is a worldwide concern and here theater appears to be the way to spark that debate. >> i think it's very interesting to a lot of writers and theater makers and artists generally to be living in this time when this huge avalanche of electronic information is kind of swirling around us and it has a very strong political dimension but also very strong penalty mentions. >> reporter: performers are used to being watched the audiences increasingly too, but in a very different way. the big question raised at the

fringe how long will they tolerate it for and ultimately do they have any choice in the matter? phil lavell, al jazerra, at the edinburgh festival. and you can follow all of the story that his we are covering here on the channel by logging on to our website at aljazerra.com. >> to hear al baghdadi hear it, he's head of state. the status that merges religious and governmental leadership. who al baghdadi, how he got where he is, and the caliphate are all on "inside story."