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pounding pro-russia separatists and. i'm on the ty border where the new military government is making plans to send tens of thousands of refugees back to mian-mar. ♪ iraq's highest court made a ruling that could pave the way for the prime minister to serve a third term and nouri al-maliki is the biggest block and he could retain his position. the political uncertainty continues as kurdish forces continue the battle with the north and we have more. >> reporter: an important victory in the fight against the islamic state group. fighters from iraq's kurdish region capture the town in the country's north and hold up the

group's black flag as a troe -- trophy and it has put nouri al-maliki under attack of the president. >> translator: i wanted iraqi parliament that he had no way to do this based on past elections and violation would lead to more security problems, this is why the government is planning to file a case against the president for violating the constitution twice. >> reporter: he is a kurd and his election in july raised hopes of a reconciliation between iraq, kurds and sunnisen maliki is accused of targeting critics including top sunni politicians and is now looking

increasingly isolated. >> maliki's mindset now has so much narrowed down he is not seeing the country, not seeing the thousands of people that are being killed but isis and not saying the fact he under his watch all this happened. he was responsible forearming and guarding the iraq army that collapsed in front of isis. >> reporter: it quote fully supports the president in his role as a guarantor of the constitution, end quote and maliki's own spokesman defended the president expressing hope that a new prime minister could be elected as early as monday. i'm with al jazeera. the advance of fighters from the islamic state group left many without a home in northern oi rack. large numbers of the religious minority are still stranded on a desert mountain top in sinjar and some crossed the border from

syria and from there crossing back in cardish controlled parts of northern iraq and it has taken a week for some refugees to cross back in the country and some are where entire families have been walking with little food and no medical supplies and now face tough conditions in a refugee camp that has been set up for them. many lost family members during the journey. >> translator: i put two of my sons in the car that came to get us and i went to grab the one i'm holding and went to the car but it left already and that is why i had to walk alone and i have three children and this one is with me but i lost the others. i have not seen the other children and my husband since then. >> reporter: our correspondent jane has more. >> reporter: u.s. air strikes have continued, not far from erbil to beat back islamic state fighters with the u.s. and iraq

and threatening the kurdish capitol. overnight in fighting kurdish forces lost the key city of jalula between baghdad and kurdish territories and held the city but despite iraq strikes nearby they were forced to withdraw and handed back to the islamic state group. fierce fighting all along the 1,000 kilometer border between kurdish territories and iraqi central government territory backed by the u.s. and iraqi strikes but at the same time the focus continues to try to help trap civilians on the mountain and part of the minority. several thousand of them have been able to walk down the mountain and speaking to some of them and tell horrendous stories of women dying in child birth and babies buried on the mountain and believes up to one thousand have died and there political battle lines are being

drawn with nouri al-maliki making it clear he is not going to step down. there is an on going battle between maliki that he believes he is entitled to a third term as prime minister and a growing force of opposition political figures who would like to replace him. that struggle continues but meanwhile in the green zone in baghdad where the u.s. embassy is based as well as iraq government, more troops and tanks and around baghdad more security as that political deadlock continues. >> israel and hamas have held their fire amid another humanitarian cease fire and 72-worked out by egypt with the palestinians and israelis and since the military assault on gaza began a month ago 64 israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed. gaza's health ministry say 1940 palestinians have been killed

and u.n. says three quarters civilians and 10,000 palestinians wounded and more than 170,000 people are still leaving in 89 u.n. shelters. and we will join our correspondent in gaza, andrew simmons which is east of rafa and during the cease fires we can tell the true scale of devastation in the gaza strip and show us what you are seeing. >> reporter: well, right here, laura, the situation is that you have people returning to their homes and finding, well, this is one of them for example two teenagers over there recovering what they can and the woman over here, you will see now taking a rest, trying to get us to go in to talk more, she has been slaving away and working on trying to sort out her belongings in the searing heat. you can see behind me here the

level of damage further down. there were f-16 attacks in this area and also tank fire over a large area in this direction. people slowly returning and i spoke to one family who said that they were convinced that things were not safe, they would not return here permanently until there was an over all settlement in cairo. they were not going to trust a 72-hour cease fire, that was a short time ago. they are now packing and heading off to a family home which they think is relatively safe. they have chosen not to go to one of the 89 u.n. shelters. they don't trust those either. so really a case now of not really a question of celebrations for people here, just a hope there could be some lasting settlement and of course the sides along way apart and

the talks are indirect talks and there is no actual agreement about to be signed. >> andrew thanks for bringing us the scene there from the ground in gaza. let's now join our correspondent in west jerusalem with kim and get the israeli side of things and what are you hearing, kimberly, on the talks about to be underway in cairo? >> with the israeli delegation in cairo now the real work begins on trying to address the grievances on both sides in these indirect talks with egyptian mediators. that being said the israeli foreign ministry told us there would be no negotiation as long as there was rocket fire. but with now the cease fire agreement in place some 12 hours, the real work can begin. of course the key issues for both sides for israel is the demilitarization and something to this point that hamas said is

nonnegotiable. for the palestinian delegation it's the lifting of blockade on gaza and left 1.8 million living in an open air prison and economy crippled, not having any ability to be commercially viable and these are the kinds of things that will be addressed in these talks. we are talked the israeli delegation will only stay in cairo for today. then it will return to jerusalem to consult with high-level government officials on the substance of what has been discussed. >> kimberly we will look at events in cairo today. thank you from jerusalem. ukraine government says forces surrounded do surrounded donsk and pro-russians surrender and residents waking up to the sounds of shelling, some took refuge in the basement of a building and 100 persons fled from a high-security facility

after it was hit by the shelling and emma hayward has more from slovonsk. >> from the separatists the main tellicom center was on fire and apparently hit by a shell. one of many buildings coming under fire from ukrainian forces. >> translator: the ukrainian telecom building is on fire is what it is because the shell ex employed and set it on fire and firing mortars. >> reporter: almost half of the city's one million strong population has now left, unable to cope with this, many people are still trying to get out and others are seeking shelter, even the maternity unit has gone under ground to escape violence. ukraine military appears to have the upper hand and pushing forward and cutting off enemy supply roots and say they will

not stop fighting until they have driven out separate cysts from the strongholds in the east. >> translator: if there is an initiative then it has to be shown with practical actions and not just words and if they lay down their arms in this case nobody is going to shoot at them. we have not seen practical steps yet but just a statement. >> reporter: ukrainian forces are trying to build on successes they have made in the last few days but even in areas which are back under their control, they are leaving nothing to chance. all this as the people who live in the east try to find safety wherever they can. emma hayward al jazeera in slovonsk. coming up, on the program we will speaking to amnesty in kabul and civilians killed by nato troops have been denied justice. a larger and brighter satellite, the super moonlighting up our skies. ♪ vé

♪ hello again, i'm laura and the highest court made a ruling that could pave the way for the prime minister to serve a third term, the court has said nouri al-maliki's block is the biggest in parliament and means he could retain his position. israel and hamas have held fire amid another humanitarian cease fire and the 72 hour was worked out we egypt negotiating with palestinians and israelis.

ukraine forces have been continuing to shell the rebel stronghold of donsk and demanding pro-russia fighters surrender and 100 people fled from a high-security facility after being hit by shelling. and amnesty international reports that the families of thousands of afghan civilians killed by u.s. and nato forces denied justice and they interviewed more than 100 witnesses from ten incidents between 2009 and 2013 and around 140 civilians were killed in the incidents including at least 50 children and focuses on air strikes and calling on afghan government to ensure accountability and amnesty richard bennett is live from kabul and good to have you with us, can you give an example of one of the incidents that your report focuses on? >> yes, certainly, for example

in 2012 in lockman province, air strikes hit a group of at least 20 women who were collecting firewood on a mountain side, seven of these women were killed, seven were injured, two of them, four of them very badly and two of them were actually with us today who had lost their sight as a result of their air strikes. immediately the u.s. government claims that they had bombed insurgents but later on they apologized because that was not the case. the matter was investigated. however, the families of the victims have never heard the

outcome of that investigation. and that is why we call this report left in the dark because in the majority of these cases, that is what happens. >> clearly an apology is not enough for these families so why in so many cases is the u.s. failing to bring justice? >> well, we are a critical of structural floors in the u.s. military justice system. there certainly have been improvements in terms of the numbers offensive yanukovich -- civilian casualties and flaws in the military system largely because there is overwhelming commander control over the system and it is insufficiently independent mean that there are few incentives for soldiers in the field or indeed commanders

to conduct independent, impartial investigations and they are policing themselves. >> your report is also calling on the afghan government to take accountability for this and you med karzai yesterday and what did he have to say on the issue? >> that is not quite right. our report focuses on incidents involving international military forces in afghanistan. of course, the afghan national security forces are also involved in fighting. now, taking the lead in most cases. and we did call on the afghan government to ensure that they too investigate and bring about accountability where civilians are casualties.

it's not a crime every time a civilian is killed. but it must be checked that the attacks are proportionate and targeted in the military sense under international humanitarian law. we also have called on both nato and the government, if i may, to establish new, independent mechanisms to ensure that investigations are credible and that justice is done. >> richard bennett thanks for joining us there from kabul. >> you are welcome, thank you. >> and turkey prime minister won the first presidential vote and erdogan wants to transform it to an executive position. and we have a journalist here

and the oldest language newspaper. >> the presidential system might be good for turkey or not. the problem is we don't have checks and balances system. the systems is for parliamentary powers and limited powers in government. if we have an unresponsibility president and not accountable for his actions of president but with full executive powers, a president which has a party president and a party that has a government on its orders, then we will have a new turkey which is to me very different than the past and ambiguous. >> reporter: al jazeera demands release of three journalists who

have now been in prison in egypt for 226 days, mohamed and fahmy and greste and given 7 years sentence and mohamed has an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession he picked up during a protest. the president will testify into the death of 44 people at an mine two years ago and most killed were miners shot dead by police and tonya page reports. >> reporter: bullets that stunned south africa and people around the world, police shot dead 34 striking miners that day saying it was self-defense and the reason it was allowed to escalate to the violent end is being considered by a commission of inquiry and he was a major

shareholder and they accuse him of using influence to pressure police into action but he strongly denies the allegation. >> it encapsulates the triad interest of mining, police and the state and anc. he is at the center of the argument that there was a toxic colition and the state. >> reporter: they triggered the formation of a new political party and economic freedom fighters number three in parliament now. and he could be the next president of south africa so this testimony is important to millions of people who want to see how he handles the pressure of cross examination and of course to those who want to know the truth behind what happened there. two years after the shooting and no one other than striking

miners have been arrested and the testimony is an important piece of puzzle hoping for an explanation and one day justice. south africa. liberia denied as getting together trying to contain the ebola crisis and this is the latest african country for airport checks and border controls. and the world health organization classified the ebola epidemic as an international health emergency. nearly a thousand people have died from ebola in west africa. the outbreak is having an impact on regional economy with border controls hurting trade and mohamed reports in nigeria. as with africa's largest economy based on the ebola out

break businesses are feeling the pinch and the commercial capitol not only locals but people from neighboring countries too t weak domestic demand driven by consumer fears over the ebola crisis is taking its toll on businesses here. it has traders selling vegetable and fish and other stuffs are feeling the economy destruction caused by the ebola out break so far, some suppliers from rural areas are staying away. economists see mixed fortune for businesses. >> i will lose the airline industry and nigeria has a huge population that travels in and out a lot. the industry that we gain is the industry and they are looking for booming products. liberia and new guinea and

sierra leone remerging from internal conflicts as they struggle against the virus. in the liberia capitol president say ebola and fear it has generated is affecting everything from food prices to transport fares but the trade between west africa nations ebola has dealt the biggest blow to. nigeria is 79% of west africa economy. most products made in nigeria exported to other countries come here. if you shut the border this will not come in it will be a disaster. >> reporter: a slow down in the economy and falling revenues ebola out break have been planning the fight against the virus on their own and current indications are up to $12 million in government revenue has been lost in liberia since it began and small money by

international standards but huge for them. i'm with al jazeera. thailand military government is making plans to send tens of thousands of refugees back to neighboring mian-mar and living in camps for decades and afraid of going home and we report from the border. >> reporter: it has been 30 years since the first people came to the camp in western thailand and came to escape the oppressive military government in mian-mar or berma as it was known there and it is between ethnic arnes and government soldiers. >> translator: my husband die and children and i could not survive there and they didn't pay us, telling us they didn't have money, so many people died there. >> reporter: since then the number of people living in the camps along the border has grown around to 120,000 and ironically

living in a country with a military government following thailand's coup just over two months ago. in resent weeks soldiers tightened security at the camps following announcement they plan to start sending people back. most refugees along this stretch of the border come from just over the mountains there in the korin state and the national union fought for independence or autonomy for more than 60 years and recently signed a cease fire deal with the government but sporadic fighting continues. negotiations are underway for a nationwide cease fire and talks are being held with most rebel armies including the north where fighting has been particularly intense in resent years. those working with refugees in thailand say it's too early to send them back. >> in the conflict area there is no demanding it and the second one is, they are still have

military in the state or in some area. and the third one is still fighting in the area, there is no nationwide cease fire. >> reporter: they are treated like second-class citizens by the government. >> translator: everyone in the camp has been talking about being sent back. but i will not return back. i will not go back. i have no home and nothing else there. mian-mar is chaotic. >> reporter: despite conditions in the camps they feel they have a chance at a better life staying here, i'm on the border. and you may have noticed a super moonlighting up skies across the world on sunday night, this happens when the full moon makes its closest approach to earth and appeared 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal as it reached the point

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