mubarak on trial. egypt's ousted president appears in public saying he would never order the jailing of his countryman. plane crash apparently killed eduardo campos. counting down, gazans enjoying the last hours of the

ceasefire. hope fighting won't resume. a ai paraplegic, using his hands. the breaking news in the last 15 minutes or so coming from brazilian television, lef leftist eduardo campos plane lost altitude, as it was prearg tpreparing to land. residential neighborhood there's smoke. what are you hearing whether this has actually killed eduardo campos? >> hello can you hear me?

>> gabgabriel, lost the line. >> yes i'm back. information is coming in very quickly, a small plane has crashed, in rio. it was thought that eduardo campos was on the plane. and now in the last five minutes a global gb, one of the biggest g bmplet networks in all of brazil that not only eduardo campos was on the plane but he appears to have lost his life. i will say that this information has not been officially confirmed by his campaign, however global tv said they have talked to people within his party and it's true, obviously tragic news. moving very fast here. this plane crashed in a

residential neighborhood in santos, about a 90 minute drive from sao paulo. he was in rio de janeiro yesterday taking part in an interview with tv, he was flying in a private plane for a campaign event today. his plane crashed in less than an hour ago in a residential neighborhood. images from there, from local tv, are showing still as of this moment, smoke billowing out from this residential neighborhood where the plane crashed. it apparently crashed into about five different homes. aside from that we have no official word on injuries, aside from what we are hearing from local media reporting about eduardo campos who was on this plane. >> gabriel, just so you know, we are seeing the pictures from global television, definitely

seeing smoke in the area, damage to residential areas, and closeup shots of what looks like wreckage and debris. nothing confirmed at this stage. was he in campaign mode? want to put this in context for viewers, when the presidential elections were and so forth. >> sure he was in campaign mode, the campaign kicked off about three weeks ago. there are three main candidates running. the president who is running for reelection, the main option candidate was meves and then had was eduardo campos. campos was in full campaign mode. he had just been speaking on an interview with global tv in rio de janeiro last night as a matter of fact, he was in intense campaign mode. he was number 3 in the polls, the way his polls showed that he was pulling in about 12 to 13%

of the vote. he was a very serious candidate, eduardo campos was the ex-governor of panambuco state. in the northeast of brazil. he was ally of the ruling workers party for many years. well-known in all parts of government and this was his first time running for presidency. and weighs trying to position himself as sort of the centrist candidate. kind of not from the opposition but not from the ruling party. he was trying to position himself as sort of the young new face of brazil. are eduardo campos was 49 years old and recently his wife gave birth to a new peab as well. >> if you are just -- to a new baby as well. >> crash site in brazil believed to be carrying the presidential candidate, eduardo campos.

gabriel, a very quick summary of what you know about the crash and who was on board. >> there has been a plane crash of a small jet in santos, brazil along the coast of sao paulo state. the plane according to local media was carrying presidential candidate you eduardo campos and within the -- last few minutes, global tv reports that eduardo campos died in that crash. his campaign has not confirmed that and on scene individuals have not confirmed that but all signs are pointing that eduardo campos, former governor of penambuco state, it appears he may have died. >> gabriel, get back to us won't you, if you hear confirmation of this. breaking news that braziln presidential candidate eduardo campos has been killed, in a

plane crash. former president hosne mubarak said he did not order the killing of 850 protesters, and launched a defense of his former rule. directly from the military hospital where he's already serving time for corruption. this was the first time hosne mubarak gave testimony and he denied ordering the killings of 850 protesters during the january 2011 revolution. >> translator: mohamed hosne mubarak appearing before you today, never ordered the killing of protesters, among the egyptians. >> the trial of mubarak and his top aid has been going on for three years.

egypt has seen a president elected and deposed during this time yet no verdict at the man at the center of the storm. mubarak was supposed to spend life in prison but the sentence was overturned on technical ground, leading to this retrial. many believed the 86-year-old would ask for a lighter sentence due his age and frail condition but that wasn't the case. >> his previous court appearances where he was coming across as a defeated sickly old man but the hosne mubarak we see todaying looked aged of course like the man he was for three decades proud and very confident. >> mubarak spoke at lengths about his decades of power. some say his words were reminiscent from the time he was forced to step down. >> and i like any other human

being make mistakes yet i assumed responsibility in absolute faith and honesty. i did my best to fulfill my duties. and i, like many, will be judged by history. >> the court also heard testimony from the former interior minister, habi bell adle. judges are expected to hand a verdict on september 27th. monica alvera, al jazeera. al jazeera is demanding release of their journalists who have been jailed for 228 days. in june peter greste and mohamed fahmy got seven year sentence and baher mohamed got an

additional 3 years for a are spent bullet he picked up at a protest. another explosion happened at a fruit and vegetable market in dora in southern baghdad. one of the attacks was at a checkpoint near a home owned by a prime ministerial nominee, haider al-abadi. >> 70,000 yazidis have sceached tescapedto the kurdistan provin. running from the islamic state fighters. malcolm webb reports. >> reporter: they're hungry thirsty and exhausted after walk through remote mountains. attacked by fighters from the islamic state group ten days ago. some tried to fight back. >> we put our families into the

mount and we stayed behind fighting. we continue to fight for four consecutive hours, until the armored vehicles reached our barricades. >> we came down from a mount and walked for more than 12 hours until we reached the road. we were later transported by cars into syria. we pray to god to punish those responsible. >> reporter: now they've reached the relevant safety of kurdistan province. this road was originally set up to carry aid from syria. now it's a life line for those on the run. making their way into turkey they register with authorities. from now on these tenlts will be their homes -- tents will be their home. marginalized by those who forced them to leave. the arrivals urgently need help.

>> the majority are women and children. what we need at the moment is food supplies but as the number of refugees is rising the situation is getting more difficult. >> reporter: the first aid supplies have arrived. meanwhile u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon urged the world to do more for the civilians. life will still be tough for months to come. they don't know when it will be safe to go home. malcolm webb, al jazeera. >> three day truce is in gaza enters its final hours. 64 israeli soldiers and 3 civilians including a thai national have been killed in israel. 1957 palestinians have died according to gaza health ministry.

u.n. says three quarters are civilian, 469 are children and more than 10,000 palestinians have been wounded and the more than 209,000 still seeking shelter in u.n. facilities. as we say the truce coming to an end. jane ferguson reports on that from gaza. >> reporter: gazans across the gaza strip know they may have only a matter of hours of peace here. the 72-hour ceasefire runs out at midnight and that's why so many people have turned out in gaza city to do their hopping. over the past month it's been incredibly dangerous to leef your home, never mind freely moving about and stocking up on groceries et cetera. people are enjoying a semblance of peace here but a sense of utters. this could be the last day they get to go about their normal daily lives. >> six people including three members of a palestinian bomb

disposal unit and a foreign journalist have been killed in the gaza strip. an unexploded bomb blew.early wednesday in an area where there had been fierce fighting between the israeli army and hamas. didn't spare vital services like hospitals. as we have heard thousands of people including children are in desperate need of medical help. our correspondent andrew simmons met the people caught in the middle. >> reporter: israel's bombardment of gaza didn't spare medical services. the world health organization says more help is needed. >> this was an intensive care unit as a children's hospital now it's totally closed. a bomb went off nearby spraying the entire building with glass and shrapnel. a two-year-old child was in this bed being resuscitated by a doctor. he couldn't complete the process and the child died. another threat to children now is disease. these three brothers are all

seriously ill with meningitis. and they aren't alone. infectious diseases are spreading with tens of thousands of people homeless. this hospital in gebalia is overwhelmed with demand. beds have to be shared. >> our hospital is overcrowded, now we are dealing with 120, 130 cases every day, daily, it's a disaster, catastrophe. >> many of the sick children here frr schools used as shelters by the united nations. >> we have 60 people in one room at the school and most of them are children. >> inam will have to return to her shelter because there's nowhere else to go. like gaza's hospitals it's overcrowded, drinking water, rations somewhere to sleep but sanitation and hygiene are dire.

more than 5,000 people here, yet they share 15 toilets and five showers. health officials are calling these shelters borrowing grounds for disease. >> if this situation persists for longer time, we will go for health crisis in terms of communicable disease and eruption of outbreaks. >> that is one of many worries now, the danger of an epidemic of disease. andrew simmons, al jazeera, gebalia, gaza. >> the latest on santos, brazil, believed to kill the presidential candidate, in santos. tripoli's chief of police is a victim in the latest unrest. we'll have live analysis in just a moment.

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>> top stories for you on al jazeera. breaking news in the last half an hour. with brazilian television indicating a plane has crashed and presidential candidate eduardo campos has died in the crash. egypt ou ousted about the, hosne mubarak said he did not order killings on september 27th. 33 people killed and 87 others injured. meanwhile iraq's prime minister

nouri al-maliki holding online power. appointing a successor as a violation of the constitution. deaths continue unexploded bombs kill six people including a foreign journalist. at least five people died when rockets hit neighborhoods in the libyan capitol tripoli. chief of police, has been assassinated in tripoli's eastern suburbs. his body guards were kidnapped but later on released. in a move to iron out rivalries, libya's next president will be elected by a popular vote. first time since moammar gadhafi came to rule 42 years ago.

joining us from oxford in the u.c -- u.k, we thank you for your time. libya was famously the battle that the west would get involved in this happen i guess they can't do anything this time, this is for libya to sort out. oliver miles, kamal santa maria. , can you hear me all right? >> yes, i can. >> looks like you had trouble with your ear piece. 124 deaths in libya there's still some very, very serious internlt problems there. >> that's right, yes. things have really come to a crisis and we shall i think know fairly soon whether it can be overcome or whether things are going to get worse and libya is going odescend into chaos. >> this is one question, the one that libya has to sort out

itself. the west did get involved in but the external help isn't the story here is it? >> no, that's right. the help that nato and some arab forces gave in 2011 was quite separate, that was a purely military affair to prevent gadhafi from using his heavy weaponry to destroy the revolution which had started in the eastern part of the country. now we have a totally different situation. the house of representatives have called for an intervention to protect civilians but not clear how that can be effective. >> tell us who these militias are, who they are aligned with, past revolution and short discovery why they're fighting. >> yes. it's a chaotic situation. these militias, originally were the people that took up arms

against gadhafi's regime in 2011 and overthrew him. they feel quite understandably that libya owes them something. they remained after being the fighting was over, but unfortunately they have now been largely i think -- they've moved away from that role and now they've become instruments of individual selfish attempts to gain varntio advantages in one r another. i think it's rather misleading as seeing them as either pro, or anti-islamist. or anything of that kind. i think they're selfish. >> not that it would help the current situation but what do you make of this long term view to have a popular vote for president? i mean if you're going omove to democracy, this is clearly an -- to move to democracy, this is clearly an important step. >> well, yes, the encouraging

part of the libyan story, is they have succeeded in holding, i think it was in june, successfully holing a house of representatives, it was not able to meet in tripoli or benghazi. but in tobruk. they have also taken a decision to call for international intervention to protect civilians. and they're reported to be discussing a call to the militias to submit to central government authority. although that hasn't happened yet. i should add that there are some reason to think from social media and so on, that the egyptians and al yearian algerie calling for a call to international intervention, and

that may be preferable to intervention by western forces. that brings problems. >> thank you for your time. thank you. >> the pakistani government has opened roads to allow the rally against ploo with the-rigging in last year's elections. kamal hadyr has that. >> things are returning to normal. the city was in lock down, there were containers placed within the city as well as all entry and exit points. however the prime minister decided despite the fact that he had earlier said that nobody would be allowed to come to islamabad on august the 14th he made a decision that yes, the last would now be allowed, releasing some political pressure and also, bringing a sigh of relief to the residents

of rawalpindi and islamabad. however, the situation would likely continue because staging a sit in in front of parliament, and they will presently their demands, an interim government. pakistan's crisis will likely continue. world health organization reported 128 new cases of ebola and 56 deaths in the past two days. that brings the overall death toll to 1069, the worst ever outbreak. infected countries have closed

borders. sounds impossible, a paraplegic has moved his hand. >> ian burke's words that describe is active and independent. four years ago when ian was 15 all that changed dramatically in one split second on a north carolina beach. >> just hanging out with some friends we went down into the ocean, i dove into a wave, what pushed me down into a sand bar where i broke my neck in my c-5, c-6 vertebra. >> ian was paralyzed over most of his body. >> what do you miss most since your accident? >> the biggest thing is independence, doing things for myself. >> when the doctor overseeing ian's rehabilitation suggested he take part in a experiment, he

jumped at the chance. patel spent ten years developing a way to bypasses the spinal chord, they call it the neural bridge. >> there was a lot to consider. i was saying, sign me up for brain surgery that i don't need. >> dr. ali resai implanted a tiny chip the size of a pea in the motor cortex of ian's brain. >> you have to be precise, you have to get the exact spot on the surface of the brain that is controlling the movements of the arms and the legs. >> the chip containing electrodes to scan brain signals is attached to wires that attach to a slender screwed into ian's skull, they are looked up to a powerful computer that decodes the signals literally reading ian's mind. the computer sends the

translated commands to a sleeve wrapped around ian's arm all in the blink of an eye. >> how hard t do you have to concentrate? >> you have to concentrate very hard. >> then in june comes the moment of truth. can ian move the computer hand to mastering his own? [applause] >> for the first time, scientists had bypassed the spinal chord to move the muscles of a paralyzed person, from his brain. >> i don't have the sensation but feeling my hand open up gave me great hope for the future. >> so ian keeps pushing, understanding he never may regain the independence he lost on that north carolina beach but knowing too that his pioneering effort may make it easier for other paralyzed patients to once

again, move their muscles with their minds. chris bury, al jazeera, columbus, ohio. >> a reminder, go to aljazeera.com, the video on demand, the live blogz and streaming are available at aljazeera.com 24-7. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher and you're in the stream. are they more polarized than ever, how the military is handling the crisis. after decades of turmoil what's different now?