and al jazeera america is doing just that. earlier today vice presideno congratulate him and your honor him to form a new cabinet as quickly as pass. >> i'll the u.s. prespassthe. >> the u.s. president endorsing a new prime himster but nouri al-maliki is refusing to go quietly. hello, i am laura kyle and this is al jazerra live from doha. also at odd program. lies in ruins, gazans scour through the rubble trying to assets the damage as a true between israel and hamas enters day two. russia sends 280 trucks carrying

humanitarian aid towards war-torn eastern ukraine but some are calling this move a pretext for invasion, egypt's president lands in russia this hour after visiting saudi arabia. on the agenda, gauze a, libya and iraq, and increased economic cooperation. >> u.s. president program has en dossed the nomination of a new iraqi mine prim officers to replace nouri al-maliki. but a defiant al-maliki has called the nomination a violation of the contusion. while baghdad is embroiled in this political turmoil a humanitarian vice us continues to unfold in the north as thousands of people flee their homes in fear of is lat islamie

fighters advancing. >> reporter: finally after weeks of political deadlock as iraq fell apart. a new candidate for prime minister. he is from prime minister nouri al-maliki's party. but unlike maliki, he now has the support of iraqi political blocks. he has 30 days to form a new government. but maliki isn't leaving without a fight. maliki now a caretaker prime minister maintains that he got the largest number of votes. he says the constitution dictates he should be prime minister again, he evening made an appeal to security forces. telling them not to worry, he would prevailing. >> translator: i know that some of you in the armed forces are worried. just like i assured you yesterday, here i am assuring you again today, don't worry. make this boost your energy manifest your morale and confront the terrorism, against the self described islamic state. >> reporter: the u.s. is putting

increasing pressure maliki to step down. it welcomed his replacement. >> earlier today vice president and i today called him to congratulate him and your honor him to form a new cabinet as quickly as possible. one that's inning cruise inclul iraqis and represents all iraqs. i pledge the our support to him as well as the president and speaker as they work to form this government. >> reporter: iraq has both a humanitarian crisis and a long battle with the us lat i can state fight ores its hands. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes by fighting. these are members of the ancient yazidi minority, who fled their homes in the city last week. a charity which has been airlifting food to sinjar mountain gives them medical treatment. >> thousands of people died there on the mountains from lack of food and water.

and. [ inaudible ] has been killed during the fighting. 400 women have been taken and we don't know their fate. we don't know what will happen to them. >> reporter: it's a small community, the doctor says that they have confirmed the numbers through a accounts from relatives. there are tens of thousands of displaced people in schools like this across northern iraq. in three weeks school will be in session again and they'll have to find another place to go. there are moves for a new iraqi government but it's expected to be a very long fighting on. and no one expects the yazidi or anyone else to be able to go home any time soon. while iraq's political crisis may be easing, it's humanitarian crisis is just beginning. al jazerra, erbil. joining us now live from erbil. what reaction have we seen from iraqis to maliki being pushed

aside like this? >> reporter: well, i can tell you the speaker of the kurdistan regional parliament government has told us a short while ago the kurds welcome the move and a nomination of a new prime minister. we have to remember that the kurdistan government has been blaming maliki for the crisis, saying his sectarian policies ill 80 enpolicies alienated the sunnis and allowed the islamic state to exploit it and take the territory. this is a positive move to the kurds, they plan to hold a referendum on declaring independence, it's not clear whether or not they'll push ahead with these plans if a national unity government is formed. now, as for the sunnis, what we understand is that there are a number of sunni groups fighting on the ground. it's not just islamic state group. now those sunni grouping groupse tribal leaders have been telling

us for weeks now the politicians in baghdad, the sunni politicians do not represent them and do not recognize the political process, so any government, any inclusive government which the united states has been calling for, will have to include these men if they are able to form a united front in iraq in order to take on the islamic state group because as you know the united states was quite worried. right now it's defending erbil, but it cannot take anymore action, if it takes action it will be seen as targeting sunnis. this is the beginning, a lot of groupings are saying this is a positive step. but they need to form a government which creates national unity and reconciliation. >> and it could potentially be a game changer in the battle against the islamic state fighters and really for many around mosul and northern iraq it couldn't come soon enough. we have seen a report of the yazidis being targeted but they are not the only minorities being targeted and sufferinger?

>> reporter: no, the yazidis is the latest minority to come under attack. like you mentioned earlier, some of them think thousands are hiding in the mountains the kurdish forces trying to evacuate them. we understand that the governor here in the kurdistan government region will be holding a press conference appealing for international assistance, there is only so much that they can do, you are talking about 10s of thousands of yazidis. before that christians were pushed out of their homes in mosul and areas surrounding mo such since last june the united nations toll me 1.2 million people have crossed in the kurdish regional territory. it's a lot strain. and we have to remember 250,000 syrian cureds have sought refuge here, a humanitarian crisis in the making. this is why people are hoping that some sort of political settlement is reached to end this deadlock in order for a united front to be created to fight the islamic state group

which many really blame for a lot of killings and targeting minorities in iraq. >> reporting live from erbil, thanks very much, dana. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says the united states stands ready to support a new iraqi government in its fight against the islamic state group. this comes as the u.s. and australia have agreed to work together to deal with the threat posed by foreign fight nurse iraq. syria and elsewhere. they say that they are going to take their concerns to the united nations. >> we are going to work together to assemble a con pen dee up of the best practices in the world regarding those foreign fighters and we intent to join together in order to bring this to the united nations meeting next month and pull putt on the agenda in a way that will elicit support from source countries as well as the countries of

concern. ♪ in gas arc palestinians are returning to their ruined homes. farms and factory as as a ceasefire continues for a second day. nine temporary truce has allowed the united nations food program to direct food to one lunn 50,000 people. the one-time programs contain wheat. they have districted food to 300,000 people since july 7th. estimates say it will cause billions to rebuild gaza's infrastructure destroyed by israel's offensive. reconstruction will only be possible if israel eases its blockade and allows building materials. since israel's military assault on gaza began over a month ago. 64 israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed.

gaza's health ministry says 1,945 palestinians have been killed. nearly three-quarters are have sill vinnies accord to this united nations. 449 are children. almost 10,000 palestinians have been wounded and more than 209,000 people are still living in 88 u.n. shelters shelters she hires has applaud people to return to the ruins of their homes and andrew sim your honor met with some people who have been left with nothing. >> reporter: nine bombing may have stopped by life in gaza is till cruel to all who live here. this is a homecoming you wouldn't wish on anybody. and it's commonplace. family homes destroyed. people retrieving what they can and heading back to temporary, off makeshift homes. this teacher's home is intact. he built the hand on land bought just after the 1993 oslo peace

accord which was seen as a turning point for arab israeli relations. how different things are now. he doesn't feel safer here. and is moving his family to a relative's house. >> they have put agreements together and we can live here again. but now we don't trust anyone. >> reporter: these people are getting out of gaza altogether. the ceasefire gave safe passage to those lucky enough to get the right documentation and are using the rafah crossing in to egypt. >> translator: i am join paying son, me and my children need to recover from the stress and fe fear. >> reporter: while the damage for people's home is his stagger, it's also had a devastating effect on industry. there was $2 million worth of stock here and equipment. all of it destroyed. in one of the last air raids before the ceasefire took effe

effect. two isreali miss aisles set this soap-making factory on fire, at least 25 jobs have been lost in this family business. >> it's all gone. by the rockets of the israeli occupation. and i don't know what to do next. everything is gone. >> reporter: you have to look out to sea for any hint of normality in gaza. the fishermen are once again using their nets. but on the shoreline, one more mounting problem. aside from the it's instruction and human loss, it's another issue that needs urgent attention. andrew simmons, al jazerra, gaza. >> the commit foy reconstructing gas has been to hands out much-needed assistance to palestinians, the charity is giving a thousand dollars to each goes an who lost his or her home because of israeli strikes. the committee has raided more

than $23 million so far. it's been operating in gaza since 2012. turkey is sending nearly 70 tons of aid to gaza by airplane. it secured an air corridor to deliver the aid also bringing back wounded palestinians in need of medical care. russia is sending aid towards eastern ukraine. government forces have rounded rebel head do head donetsk where are living without supplies. there is a concern it might be used as cover for an invasion, rory challands joins us liver from moscow. what do we know about this humanitarian convoy? what's it carrying? >> reporter: well, we know that sometimes in the dead of night, it left from its post just

outside the moscow. 280 trucks, two some 2,000 tons of what the russians are calling humanitarian aid. they have given us a bit of a breakdown of what is inside these trucks, i'll go through some of the items. 400-tons worth of grain, 100-tons of sugar. 62-tons of baby foot. 54-tons of first aid and medicines. 12,000 sleeping bags, and 69 generators. it's quite a long drive from the moscow region down to the southeastern ukrainian border. if you are doing it in a car nonstop that will take you at least 12 hours. so a convoy of 280 trucks moving quite slowly is going to take probably more like between one and two days to get down there. >> why is the west so concerned about it? >> reporter: well, the west are concerned because for some days now nato has been saying that the chances of a russian

invasion of ukraine have been rising. and they say that the russians might well use the pretext of a humanitarian mission to launch such an invasion. people in the west, nato, and the -- and the even u. and the ukrainians all quite twitchy about this the russians say that they have coordinated this convoy with the international commit i have the red cross and the you i didn't kno ukrainians. there is some doubt about how coordination there has been of the the international committee of the red cross said it wanted an aid mission but wanted it to be as inclusive and international as possible. not some sort of unilateral action by just russia. so we'll have to see what happens when it gets down to the border where exactly it crosses the border and also whether it

is guarded in some way by the russian military. the russians are saying there is no armed escorts with this convoy as stipulated by the international committee of the red cross. but, of course, until it gets down to the border and it gets some sort of independent verification we can't really tell yet. >> very interesting development to keep an eye on, thanks very much, rory for joining us from moscow. coming up here on the program, the future of africa. what will the population boom mean for the continent? plus. >> i specialize in education and entertainment of children. >> a disturbing end for one of the world's best known comedians.

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hello again, the top stories on al jazerra at this hour. the u.s. president has talked about the new prime minister but the current one is trying to keep the job. the ceasefire between israel and hamas has entered day two. allowing humanitarian agencies to distribute food and cash. talks to negotiate a felter truce have so far made no progress. russia has sent 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid towards war-torn eastern ukraine, the government previously objected to russian involvement in aid out of

concern at this time be used as a cover upon able advantages. let's get more now on our top story the political and humanitarian cries let iraq. james i is a middle cease east security analyst joining us live from london. thanks so much for being with us. maliki's seemingly increasingly isolated. but the big question is, will he go quietly? >> exactly. i think the writing is truly on the wall for maliki. the question is whether he will read it and choose to step down or negotiate some kind of parachute arraignments for himself or whether he will choose to smash it down and this is a prime minister who who has steadily increased the personal power of his role and tried security forces for him personally, special forces in particular. and it's no owe incident coincit of this you have not only political statements emerging but also the deployment of some of the troops in sensitive areas

around the green zone. so i think the key question is now whether maliki will pursue his grievances in the belief that he should remain prime minister through the iraqi courts, or whether he will take a less democratic means to staying where he is. >> and how much loyalty, what strengths of loyalty do these security forces have to maliki? should we be looking at that as a potential pressure point? >> certainly. i mean, i think that those security forces have more loyalty to him than perhaps the ones that surrendered so quickly to isis in the north. but i think as you said at the beginning of this report, that the writing is on the walker not just from external powers and the americans have been very quick to sort of point the direction as to who they believe should be in charge of the country. and i think also the members of his own coalition, the state of law coalition has turned in to a state of ka chaos and he few members and allies left and has tried to put them behind him in

set statements. but unfortunately for him it does seem that his rule which started in 2006, in very similar circumstances and it's no owe incidents that ex-prime minister i don'joffrey is so involved inw the replacements of the person who replaced him that the merry go rounds of iraqi politics continues. >> what do you pee know about the person replacing him? he's from the same party as mall can i, will he be that much more of a unifier? >> a lot of the words that i see around him are ones that were mentioned around maliki in 2006, words like being well respected, and a moderate and well liked. clearly to operate in the sort of murky waters of iraqi parliamentary coalition building you have to have those qualities. his back is he has a ph.d from the university of man chest. he's known for his mastery of numbers and economics, but i think it's the percentage politics he has the not flagging red flags in iraqi politics that probably put him where he is today. >> he has a huge job ahead of

them. james thanks very much for joining us from london there. the egyptian president is on his way to russia to meet president vladimir paout anyone a two-day might go comes after his visit. the two leaders will discuss the conflict in gaza, iraq, had i object i can't alibya aswell as. egypt and rush have al jazerra have discussed russia, free trade and a $2 billion arms deal? human rights watch have accused the egyptian government of trying to silence its critics. two members of its staff were stopped from entering the country think they were planning on releasing a report on the crack down on protesters backing the deposed president mohamed morsi. one a thousand people were killed during demonstrations in july and august. united station food & drug administration says it will send

an experimental ebola treatment to liberia. 961 people have died from the hemorrhagic fever in west after chasm the drug zmap has been use today treats two americans and a spanish priest. liberia will use it to treat infected doctors. now to mark international youth day the united nations children's fund is drawing attention to africa's population boom. a new report says by buy the centuri' end one in four babies will be born on the continent. researchers say it could either lead to prosperity or further strain on economies. welcome webb reports. >> reporter: this baby takes her first breath. today she just wants to be held and fed. but along with 10s of thousands of babies born in africa every day, in the coming years she will wants an education and then a job. africa's knuble movement is

booming and people wonder what the future will bring. >> the first thing these people will be looking for is jobs. they need to go to school first. in order to get proper jobs. >> the government needs to build more industries so that there are more job opportunities in different jakes. >> reporter: the united nations project by the end of the century four out of 10 people will be african. it says even by 2015 around 41% of the world' births will be in africa. and most of those will be in nigeria where it will account for almost 110th of the world's births. it's most pop las city lay goes is already the largest in the continent and more than a third of young adult living are there unemployed. in march 10s of thousands attended a recruitment for nobodies it end end in a stampede and seven people were quilled. but the u.n. children's funds

says the youth boom could leave to growth and prosperity if the government invests now in health care and creating more jobs. >> we are optimistic about africa's future but only if the investments are maids and made now. it will take possibly a generation for them to be fruitful. unless it happens, africa's very young children now in 20 years time when they enter the labor force may face a very uncertain future. >> reporter: and so the future for the continent tph*ept's nexf babies hangs in the balance. leading to their chance to succeed tomorrow. malcolm webb, al jazerra. now the actor and comedian robin williams has died at the age of 63. williams' body was found in his northern california home. the local sheriff calls it an apparent suicide.

as we look back at williams' career. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: from a high-pitched alien. to a cross-dressing nanny. [ screaming ] >> reporter: robin williams may most fondly be remembered as a funny man. >> please welcome robin williams! >> reporter: and it was as a stand-up comic that he first made his mark. >> and it's weird in california this summer all the state parks caught other fire, which was sad because these parks are full of weed. it's bad news. [ laughter ] >> it's like, even the guys fighting the fires are like, ha, ha. oh, my god, make another rainbow, tommy. oh, my god. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> greetings. remember me,. >> reporter: but it was one appearance in 1974 on the hip tv

comedy series happy days, as the alien mork that kick started his career. >> i had to sapp your minds to make you forget. i didn't want to make you go bozo city. >> reporter: that led to the spin-off series mork and mindy that ran foo four years up to 1982. and then came the movies. >> good morning vietnam! >> reporter: and along with the comedy, came the more thought-provoking roles. his part as a rebellious army radio present during the vietnam war built on his reputation as a comic, but the dark subject matter of the film allowed him to explore his more serious side. the performance earned williams an academy award nomination for best actor. two more best actor nominations followed, for dead poet society and the fisher king. before he finally collected a golden statue. >> and the oscar goes to.

robin williams. >> reporter: this portrayal in "goodwill hunting." of a therapist who help a troubled young genius played by matt damon, earned him his one and only oscar for best supporting actor. >> i don't know a lot, but you see this, all of this shit, look at me, son, it's not your fault. >> i know. >> reporter: off screen williams had his own troubles. he admitted to being addict today cocaine through the 1970s, but in 1982 he quit both cocaine and alcohol. but he never did fully recover. williams' publicist says the actor had been battling depression prior to his death. film critics have described him as one of the most influential actors of modern times. >> you do an eclectic

celebration of a dance. >> reporter: his fans will remember him for making them laugh. and cry. >> you don't want do that, do you, sport. >> reporter: al jazerra. >> iraq nominates a new prime minister. iraq's political crisis is the "inside story." >> hello, i'm libby casey. iraq's president has nominated a prime minister and it's not nouri al-maliki.