on aljazeera america israel resumes bombardment of gaza with talks in cairo on the verbal of collapse. hello, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up on the programme - more u.s. air strikes in iraq. president obama warns the fight against the islamic state group may be a long one. turks go to the polls for a first chance to directly choose a new president. and this bush meat is suspected to have caused west africa's ebola outbreak.

why are so many still eating it? three more palestinians have been killed on sunday as the bombing of gaza conditions. israel left indirect talks in cairo after a 3-day truce expired on friday. prime minister binyamin netanyahu said israel will not go back to the negotiating table as long as rocket attacks continue. >> at no stage did we declare israel's military offensive was over. the operation will continue until the objective, the restoration of quiet is achieved. i said at the beginning and throughout the operation, that it will take time, and stamina is required. >> let's look at the human toll since israel began the military result in gaza. 64 israeli soldiers, including a

thai national were killed. 1 shes 916 palestinians were killed in health strikes. the united nations said 73% of those are civilians. 449 of those killed were children. add to that almost 10,000 palestinians who have been injured, and more than 220,000 people have taken shelter in u.n. buildings. >> oxfam's spokesperson joins us from gaza city via skype. thank you for joining us. i know that oxfam has been warning that gaza is on the brink of a major health crisis. what is the situation where you are? >> the situation in the gaza strip continues to deteriorate because of the continuous military actions that have taken place. this has an impact on basic

services serving the gaza strip, including water and sanitation. many pipelines are destroyed and continue to be destroyed. this is leaving the population with health risks. sol, especially on the overcrowded schools are helping thousands of family with spoor water and sanitation services. we are still warning that the public health situation, and the health situation is on the edge of collapse if the situation conditions like this. >> poor health situation, shortage of food and safe drinking water. what kind of work are you and your colleagues having to do to help these people?

>> [ inaudible ] ..clean water to those displaced in schools, hospitals and other places. we include those that fled their houses. we are reaching more than 6,000 households benefitting from the food assistance. and over 150,000 who are having access to clean water. presumably you and your staff have been affected. some of your staff left homes as well. >> that is true. we are living upped the same conditions that -- under the same conditions that 1.8 million are living. we had no option but to take the risk and reach

those in need of our emergency assistance. we are working with local partners to distribute water. nicks, a 72 hour ceasefire, we managed to help the working to get water to affected areas. we are using hygiene kits and sanitation to help the local infrastructures to function as much as it can. so we are - although there are a number of staff displaced or lost their houses because they were destroyed, but we will continue to work and to reach the people in need. this is the core of our work during this emergency. >> oxfam clearly doing important work in gaza there. thank you for speaking with us.

talks in egypt struggled to find a solution. many in gaza are losing hope. >> translation: there's no hope of a ceasefire any more. they are saying it's hopeless. the palestinian resistance is not willing to gi up the blood of 2,000 people in vain. >> translation: the negotiations in egypt are impotent. they don't produce the bake humanitarian request. the real needs are hopeless. >> nisreen el-shamayleh is in west jerusalem. is there a hope that israel will return to the talks in cairo? >> the doesn't look like it. the prime minister binyamin netanyahu made it clear this morning that the israeli delegation is not returning to cairo, saying that the hultry operation was not over. he never declared that. and that it would continue to

deal with the source of the rocket fire. he is saying that the delegation is not returning. at the same time you have the head of palestinian organization threatening to leave cairo if the israelis don't return to sit down to reach a ceasefire. we are getting unconfirmed reports that the palestinian delegation may remain in cairo until monday, in order to have urge talks with the arab league that has headquarters in cairo. we understand from the sources anything that is going in in cairo between the egyptians and the palestinian organization is focussed on a ceasefire, so the israeli side will return to the talks and talk about the core issues that they will discuss. israel is making it clear that it's not returning to the talk, and the military operation, the offensive is not over. i can tell you that the prime

minister binyamin netanyahu is under a lot of pressure, internationally and domestically internally. people are frustrated, especially those living in the gaza envelope. the towns and cities around the gaza strip on the boarder that had to evacuate for a month, and in the last few days told to return to their homes during the ceasefire only to find that the fighting has resumed. these people think that the israeli government did not finish the job in gaza, and they want to see an end to the rocket fires, and binyamin netanyahu is under international pressure. he's choosing to apiece the israeli public, and boycott the talks. nisreen el-shamayleh, thank you for that. nisreen el-shamayleh in west jerusalem there. now, the u.s. launched more air strikes in iraq, targetting fighters from the islamic state

group. it's around 40km south of the capital. there has been multiple air strikes, since authorised by president obama on thursday. britain joined the u.s. in airdropping humanitarian aid to thousands dropped on a mountain. thousands fled. the iraqi human right minister said the islamic state killed at least 500. the french government arrived in iraq to oversee aid delivery. he is set to meet, in baghdad and erbil. they have more from erbil. >> kurdish security forces say they have made strong gapes. those streaks are on target. 40km south of erbil. in fact, the kurdish commander tole us they have taken back the

town, the location of the most recent air strike, the second in the same area in two days. the u.s. has been bombing target there in the hope that kurdish forces will, with u.s. backing go in and take back the territory. the kurd have tried to hold the line on 1,600 miles of territory with islamic state fighters. they've been given a boost. it's touch and go, where thousands of vulnerable members of the community are stranded. officials warn that more are at risk of dying. 56 have died, and many more are at risk without food and water. the problem is it's a remote area. kurdish forces say they managed to get 5,000 down off the

mountain, getting them all off the mountain requires a military effort to push back the islamic state group. a lot fear that there's not enough time to do that did save the people stranded there. in iran 48 died in a plane crash of a small passenger plane that crashed from mehrabad airport in the capital. they've had a series of aeroplane crashes. ageing aircraft and poor sanctions have been made. western sanctions made it difficult to upgrade parts. >> an n.a.t.o. convoy was tashted in kabul. the taliban claimed responsibility. jennifer glasse has more from the afghan capital. >> the car bomb left a crater on main roads in kabul, a couple of kilometres south-east of the center of the city. there are several university on

the road leaving from the parramatta. four civilians, two children, a woman and a man killed, and 35 afghans injured, according to the chief of police much the target of the attack was an n.a.t.o. convoy, and it was travelling in armoured vehicles. the taliban claimed responsibility for that attack, and each though the target was a military target, as is often the case, civilians bear the brunt of that attack. the united nations saying that civilian injuries and death in the first six months of 2014 are 24% higher than they were over the same period last year. this all happened in a large transition year, even if this were fewer and fewer troops, they continue to be a target for the taliban. as is often the case, civilians are the ones who bear the brount. four civilians killed, 35 injured in an attack in kabul. >> coming up, back at work.

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rocket fire from gaza stops. the u.s. launches airfire in iraq on sunday, targetting fighters from the islamic state. they hit 40km south of the kurdish capital erbil. at least 48 people have been killed in a plane crash in iran. a small passenger plane crashed during take off from mehrabad in the capital tehran. >> turks are voting in the first direct presidential election until now. the president was appointed by parliament. 53 million people are eligible to choose between three candidates. the prime minister recep tayyip erdogan is seen as the front runner. he wants to change the ceremonial post as president into a more assertive one. our correspondent joins us from ankara. jamal, everyone seems fairly expectant that prime minister recep tayyip erdogan is going to win the presidency outright.

>> indeed, truly, that is the case. i'll step out of the shot so you can see the counter president. he enters to cast his ballot. he'll be the last president of turkey to be appointed by parliament. these are historic elections where the public will, for the first time where the new republic was founded. that person is likely to be prime minister recep tayyip erdogan, man that governed the country for a decade, and has seep or overseen the growth of the economy hugy and an improvement in public services and many other things that makes him a popular leader. no one is without crittings, andered -- critics, and recep tayyip erdogan has his fair share of those. they point to the fact that one of the reasons why he's running for the presidency, is he believes his party will be able to change the role from a

ceremonial one to one with more power, and they'll do it through parliament and the referendum. the likelihood is that he'll be turkey's first ever elect president, and will have opponents that will win him over under his presidency. >> his opponents, his rivals are criticising him for wanting to make a power grab when he's president. it's an important pole for the opposition. what could it mean for the opposition's future. >> it is significant. the opposition has failed to win an election for over 10 years, not local, not parliamentary, and now they have realised that the best chance is in uniting. turkey has a plethora of different parties, for the first time in something that is unprecedented. they unight the communist.

leftist, behind one person, being ekmeleddin ihsanoglu. aside from billing themselves as anti-recep tayyip erdogan, they failed to sell an alternative on things like the economy, things like foreign policy. they touched pon something being less rational, like recep tayyip erdogan showed over of the past few years. the likelihood is they'll fail to succeed in winning the elections. as each election goes by, the aim is that their share would increase, bear in mind there's parliamentary elections in a couple of years. if recep tayyip erdogan is to change the role of the presidency, he'll have to do it through a referendum. maybe they could garner support to block that through a public volt. we'll wait to see what the result is at the end. we expect results around 16, 17 g.m. t. >> thank you for that. now, the eastern ukrainian

city of slovyansk - lis have gone on a recruitment drive, trying to bolster numbers while weeding out people who smoothized with separatists who fled -- fled with separatists in july. >> reporter: they have been giving out orders, receiving mug shots of people that the police want to find. each day the station receives almost 100 calls from residents reporting crimes committed during separatist rule. there's a new man in charge of the press force, which was chased out of slovyansk when the separatists arrived. >> translation: the police never had to deal with a situation. we worked and lived in peaceful times. now we live in post-war times,

police and civilians need psychological help. for three months we lived under occupation, and there were threats of kidnapping. rmps police dealt with crimes, there were concerns in the community that people could be wrongly accused of being collaborators. outside the police station we met that man and his mother. he filed a report saying he was beaten by men in military, who wrongly accused him of being a separatist. >> i'm incident. they beat me and took my car. i don't know what justice will be served. i hope they don't kill me and my car will be returned. >> the editor-in-chief of the local paper returned to work. they stopped printing when the separatists arrived. each though they have gone, they still wield some power here.

the separatists came and destroyed the infrastructure, and houses and killed people. i thought the people who supported the separatists would change their mind. there were a lot of people who changed their attitude. but i am amazed that there are a lot of people who didn't learn anything from these event. they thing that the kiev government is a hunter and are illegalment they think the dpr is good. many are keen to move forward. forced to hold back their, a tradeoff for peace. the world health organisation says clinical trials of vaccines for the ebola virus may start next month. fruit bats, monkeys and rats are suspected and many say eating bush meet is something they are not willing to give up. we have this report no nigeria. >> this woman's husband is

selling game meat for 30 years. she runned a restaurant for outside lagos. on the menu is monkey. she is preparing the meat for customers that may not come. >> still come, like today. one person or two come and buy. before, everybody used to buy. >> reporter: bush meet is suspected to have been the bridge that caused the disease to go from the animal world to the human. all it takes is a single transmission from animal to human. west africans say gay meet is the food of the ancestors, and they have been consuming it. it can be available in almost

every street corner. >> this is the chairman of nigeria's national association of hunters. he is livid. >> it's a lie. if you don't want bush meat, don't eat it. they cannot say we cannot eat it. they cannot tell the public not to be eating it. for now, though, it's the brave and most ardent of the gay meat consumers who demand for it. for them, abandoning the tradition is out of the question. >> i continue to eat bush meet, i like it. i've been enjoying it, i wish to do so. >> reporter: poor knowledge and superstation, in the rural communities, poor cross-boarder and movement contributed to the spread of ebola. the refusal by some to believe that bush meat is not safe, and

due progress made in carving the diseas disease. o last monday's last monday's ferry disaster in bangladesh has drawn attention to the boats' fatal records there has been four capsizing. our correspondent wept on the fore route to bola island. >> people are waiting for bodies to be found. it's familiar sights in bank. it's not just the deaths. bangladesh's ferry system is a mess. people have to wait for hours, days to get on the ships. that's one of the reasons the ferries are overloaded with passengers and vehicles. government officials say a ferry cap sizing carried 300, the registered capacity was 85. >> how many more of our

brothers, sisters, mothers must die. rich people travel by plane so they don't have to care about this. >> recovery operations are slow. over 100 passengers are missing. the same is true for a ferry that capsized in may. >> the water is bad. our vessels are thrown around. it's difficult for us to carry out the rescue operations smoothly. >> when they managed to stay afloat. the ship caused problems for people. >> this is the ferry to the island. it's the lodgest route -- longest route, taking 3 hours to get from one port to the other. it's nothing compared to the waiting time to get op or off the vessels. >> sometimes the group find a dead body. the corpse will rot while waiting for the ferry. that's the hardest thing.

>> truck drivers spend days waiting to board. it's not unusual for the load to go back. there's 60 to 70 trucks waiting in line. i've been waiting for four days. it's the same story year after year. nothing gets down. most passengers are some of the poorest people in the country. because of that many are convinced nothing changes. every year competitors from all over the year descend on northern spain for the top draw in canoe racing. it dates back to 1989. there's over 2,000 competitors. >> reporter: what you are about to witness seems like sporting madness, it's one of canoeing's biggest, oldest and whackiest

races. over 900 compete doors sprinting to the can use and fighting their wi into 50km of water. it's acotic, different to -- chaotic, different to when the race began in 1829. >> the first race was funny for friends, those that enjoyed it. with the next year, they moved to more competition. and probably they lose their original idea of funny celebration. >> this is the 78th event attracted competitors from different countries. >> we heard all about it. we couldn't miss it. we heard that it's a nice race and famous. famous in spain. >> we heard it's one of the most prestigious races compared to any other race. we thought we better experience

it. a remarkable 200,000 spectators dress up and descend upon the town. every year many of them modelled giant heads. >> there's legend and meaning to the madness on and off the riff. >> it's a celebration of mythical water creatures, giant and kings, at one time said to protect local crops, the river and kayakers. the course is a 20km hall to the northern spanish coast. two local men won the race in a dramatic sprint finish. greg low and another claimed the spot. they'll never forget the start. >> you have to get in the boat, hopefully with your partner, and not fall out. see who can out last the other boats. >> whether you are a man in a barrel, a professional canoist

or like messing about on or in the water, they say a river race attracts an annual host of pilgrims. >> don't gore get you can keep up to date with the news on the website. aljazeera.com. more u.s. air strikes in iraq as president barack obama warps the fight against the islamic state may be a long one. >> i don't think we'll solve the problem in weeks. it will take time. >> israel and hamas continue to trade rocket fire as talks for a ceasefire are on the brink of collapse. an unarmed