this this this. us wash plains launch strikes against islamic state rebels in northern iraq. ♪ i am in doha with the world news from al jazeera. the international red cross urges both sides to allow russian aid convoy into eastern ukraine. british police launch an investigation after the death of a man among 35 people found in a shipping container. protesters and police faceoff in the u.s. as unrest returns to ferguson's streets.

♪ the united states has launched more airstrikes to try to drive back islamic state rebels from north earn iraq. fighter planes pounded targets close torage's largest damn seized earlier this month. more than eighty people were killed and hundreds of women taken prirningz in a village southwest of sinjar. the islamic state group controls 90% of the area. zeina hodr as more from erbil. >> reporter: u.s. military strikes targeted islamic straight group positions in sinjar as well as around the mosul dam. the islamic state group still controls that territory. we understand that up to 15 fighters were killed in those attacks. but the peshmerga forces on the ground have not been able to advance to recapture this territory. this is not going to be an easy fight. the islamic state group is we will armed and we will trained

and the u.s. air strikes really, the objective is to weaken the group, to defend the kurdish region as well as to protect minorities, not to defeat them. this is going to require a whole new plan. they are going to need international partners. they are going to need partners on the ground. but the airstrikes have not prevented what officials here are calling a new massacre against the yazidi minority. up to 80 men were executed by the islamic state group and they captured an unknown number of women and children. the humanitarian crisis is continuing. the u.s. administration as well as the international community pressuring the new prime minister in iraq to form an inclusive and broad-based government as soon as possible because unless iraq's political faxes unite t will be very hard to defeat the islamic state group. >> the syrian opposition have held a news conference to which they called for the united

states to launch airstrikes against islamic straight rebels in syria as well as iraq. we will hear from them but first, this is zeina hodr's report. >> reporter: more territory captured by the islamic state group, but this is not iraq. the group is advancing on more than one front and in more than one country. this is a syrian town in the northern countryside of aleppo, a region under the control of rebels fighting the assad government. >> the village is under siege by the so-called islamic state. they are not an islamic state. they are an unjust state in iraq and syria. >> the islamic state group already controls large areas in the east of syria all the way to the iraqi border. they have been moving freely between the two countries. syrian rebels from the islamic front are struggling to hold on to the aleppo countryside.

losing this region means losing a main supply line from turkey. for years, the syrian opposition has appealed for military assistance from the international community. on saturday, they renewed that appeal and called for direct military action. >> i urge the u.n. and everyone in the international community who truly believe in freedom, especially the united states of america, to deal with the sir in syria in the same way they have handled the situation in ku kurdistan and iraq. the roots are the same in syria. the enemy is the same. the world should not have double standards. >> in iraq, the u.s. is carrying out airstrikes against the islam staikt grew. the pentagon says its mission is limited to protecting minorities and defending the kurdish region. >> a third of iraq is under the control of the islamic state group. the international community has expressed alarm about its growing strengths. but so far, there is no plan to

defeat that group. >> the islamic state fighters are in urban centers and live among the local population. they are well armed. they have taken u.s.-made weapons from the iraqi army and have seized military equipment from syrian army bases. even the u.s. acknowledge airstrikes won't be enough. >> airstrikes will target the positions but the peshmerga, iraqi army and syrian rebels all need to fight to get rid of them. >> it has been a week since the iraqi army was pushed out of "the sun"ni hartland. it has certain steps to defeat the army but failed. they are refusing to take on the i.s group unless the iraqi government respects their rights. is fighters have e vased the border 2010 iraq and syria. it will take an international effort and cooperation from partners on the ground to prevent a permanently growing of

the middle east. erbil. police in the u.k. have launched an investigation after 35 people including children were found inside a shipping container. the group were covered at a port just east of london 12 hours after arrive from belgium. at least one person has died and the survivors have been treated for dehydration and hypothermia. police are treating the death as unlawful. >> it is a homicide investigation, so in terms of due diligence, what we need to achieve, we will be looking to see where the origin and the gangs are, whoever may be involved in this conspiracy to bring these people in this way over to the country, you know, clearly we need to try to bring them to justice. >> kenya a has announced a series of emergency meyers to try to stop the spread of ebola from midnight on syria all passengers from liberia, sierra leone and begin i will be

prevented from entering kenya. the only exception will be kenyan nationals returning home and they will be strictly screened. seven people have been killed and 8 injured in mogadishu. some civilians in a battle between guards of a former city official and the army with support from the aftrican union soldiers. malcolm webb reports. >> reporter: these people were injured during a heavy fire fight in somalia's capitol. police say at least four of the dead are civilians. the government says the fighting started when the guards of a former city official fired on its soldiers and african union troops. the sposhters say it was a politically motivated attack. some of those injured say they were targeted. >> i was outside the house when a soldier shot me at close range. i lost consciousness for a while. i am saying that the shoulder shot me deliberately and knew i was an ordinary civilian. >> the african union supporting

the government says it seized this cche of arms from his house. >> 20 of his men wereard arrested after the fight. he was arrested later. political figures, it's common for them to keep weapons like these. some opposition say the government with the pizza keepers' support is targeting -- peacekeepers support is targeting electionstion something that bo forces deny. we spoke to abdullah sheik hassan said his house was raided and he is now in hiding. >> after that, they come. [waiting for audio ] >> that action. >>. the u.n. backed force has been

in somalia since 2007 and supports the government'sferencely army. it's troops are from uganda, ethiopia and kenya. the forces control most of the country having taken several major towns from the armed group, al shabaab. back in mogadishu, journalists at one of the main radio staksz said their office was raided by security forces and closed because of the coverage of the fight. roll shabella is popular and has been the target of violence, as well as government closures. those injured and many more living in mogadishu haope the coming e leingsz won't bring more violence. malcolm web, al jazeera. >> john boehnerian separatists claim to vereceived new military equipment and manpower to launch a counteroffensive against the government. let's cross over to emma hayward. she joins us from the ukrainian port city. are any new tactics and equipment playing out in the actual fighting going on, on the

ground there? >> well, it's very difficult to tell, but this is coming from alexander the new leader, only in the job a week and during that week, we have seen three high-profile resignations from the separatist movement. it's unclear whether this is part of the propaganda war that is taking place here in eastern ukraine, but he says that trained personnel will be coming in, and that could help in some kind of counteroffensive against the ukrainian forces. it has to be said, they do seem to have the upper hand in the separatist areas of the eastern ukraine at the moment and the fight against the separatists. they seem to be taking villages and towns on a daily basis. of course, though, the separatists are still in control of those key towns of donetsk andl luhansk where its growing programs by the day. >> thanks so much.

people in donetsk say they are in desperate need of that russian aid that's being held up at the border. the fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people. in donetsk, a report from how the conflict is affecting the demands of the separatists and the general public. >> reporter: he shows me where he was almost killed. like many ukraineians who live in donetsk, he has strong ties to russia. his grandmother fought for stalin during the second world war. he blames the region's dark history for what is happening now. >> at one point, we were one country with 14 republics. politicians divided these republics, planted a seed of war between us. i think what's happening now is absolutely, because the ancestors had the same believes as each other. >> the separatists' beliefs are more murky.

some see ukraine as part of an old imperial russia. others embrace the power of the soviet union. when you ask pro-russian separatists what it is they want, some say they want freedom from kiev's rule. others incest they are fighting fascism. but most people here just want to get on with their lives and don't understand why ukrainians are taking up arms against each other. >> kiev recently proposed a peace plan in the southeastern region, which includes more political and economic autonomy and protection of the russian language. >> the separatists say this is not enough. and they have local people's support. >> within one suburb of donetsk, we meet arina. she says most people are like her, afraid to speak out. >> translator: i feel like my life is now just a black cloud. every morning, i hope that this is all just a bad dream, that i will wake up from and things will be as they were.

>> the ukrainian army is closing in. and separatists are calling for more ukrainian and russian volunteers to join their cause. but they have already lost men. and many people here will now be asking themselves whether their dreams are worth dying for al jazeera, dondon. donetsk. still to come. >> neighbors said you bert run before they come and kill you. >> iraqi christian families tell of their escape from islamic state group fighters. honoring south korean christians, pope fran sits beatfies 124 catholics killed for refusing to renounce their faith.

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is this family came from kirkush near mosul. now under islam ilk state's full control. this one from apartment became home for this family of six after they ran away from their town. halila says there is no more room for christians to live in iraq anymore. . >> we are never -- we never imagined anything like this would happen. nobody expected this. it was like a horror movie, he tells me. everyone was terrified. his children cry every day, wanting to go back to their home in iraq. but he says he is not going back know matter what.

>> we want security. we want stability for our children. >> so his girls spend the day lying on this bed waiting for something to change. >> rula amin, al jazeera, beirut. >> al jazeera is demanding the release of its three journalists who have now been imprisoned in egypt for 231 days. the three were accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood, a charge the station denies. in june, two were given seven years sentences, mohammed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet with him which he picked up at a protest site. there has been more unrest in the u.s. state of missouri, a tension stand-off with police after some people threw bottles and molatov cocktails during a night of protest. one group attacked a shop that

unarmed teenager michael brown was accused of robbing just before he was killed by police. the latest from ferg sown. >> reporter: protesters were standing off with a line of armored police vehicles over on this area right here. they backed up, all of these protesters. a large number of them came through and started breaking into the beauty shop. they were running out with armfuls of supplies. some people went over here to this liquor store and tried to break in there. some people started going in. another group of people tried to keep them from doing that. >> we are protecting our community, the store, everything, to let everyone no that everyone here is not criminals. everyone out here came to peacefully protest. these people tried to loot the store. don't do that. >> that's not what it is about. it's a civil rights movement. my name is antoine smith. i came here to stand up for my

rights. >> the police continue to give vishl commands, telling people to disperse. they are saying disperse. we don't want anyone to get hurt are hurterbal commands, telling to disperse. they are saying disperse. we don't want anyone to get hurt are hurt. >> they threw smoke bombs, maced the crowd and they came back and i think they were pointing guns at the crowd. >> that's when the looting started. >> we are also seeing a police helicopter above that's coming around and circling the area and continues to drop a spotlight on the crowd. so far, no firing yet. >> well, although 60% in ferguson are black, nearly all of its police force is white. this has led to questions about whether a more integrated police force there and elsewhere in the u.s. would improve community relations and reduce tension. >> reporter: just three of ferguson missouri's 53 police officers are black. so the killing of a black teenager by a

police officer there has raised questions about institutional racism in u.s. law enforcement. those who monitor the police say the racial make-up of police departments is not the fundamental problem. it's the policies they enforce. in new york city, a majority of police officers on the beat are black lat, latino or asian but it's still minorities overwhelmingly targeted. >> here in mainly black bedford stuvisa in. t peoplitialed nuchl tickets for riding a bicycle, compared to 32 tickets issued in nearby white park slope. >> watchdog groups argue the main problem isn't police diversity. >> diversity will probably help with better policing, but it won't make a significant difference. in new york city, for example, whether it's a white cop or a cop of color, that officer has to get with the program and that program in new york city is to focus on low-income communities of color and focus on petty

infractions and it results in harass ment and unnecessary punishment. >> 86% of those arrested in new york for miss demeanors in the first sig months of this year were black. activists allegeples view minorities as the easiest way to meet quotas. and they view police as armed occupiers. >> even the executive director of the organization representing black officers in the u.s. seemed resigned. >> i would hope a ang-african-american or latino officer might have more understanding but in that environment, it's impossible. >> critics argue there is no room for communal mutual trust under a leadership that insists on adversarial mil tarized policing. until that changes, they argue, the police will continue to shoot. the unarmed will continue to the dye. al jazeera, new york. >> as many as 21 million school

children in the u.s. are classified as poor. many rely on the government's meal plan during the two-month summer break. those meals aren't widely available. tom ackerman reports from maryland. >> for kids in inner city baltimore, summertime means more chances to run free in the sun shine. many miss the meals they have become accustomed to receiving while school is in session. 44 million american children get breakfast and lunch there under the federal school food program. they qualify for the free or reduced priced meals if their family incomes fall below the government's poverty lines. but only one in every seven of those children who get school meals participate in the summer food program. in baltimore, the city housing department and the school district serve the food at more than 400 neighborhood location like this community center. >> we understand just from the numbers that we see walking through the door that families

need support. we are here to support them wherever we can. >> in many other places around the u.s., too few local agencies are willing or able to run summer programs. >> shortfall, say child nutrition advocates, is another factor contributing to high obesity rates among children. >> kids actually are more likely to gain weight during the summer months. and we think all of those things are caused by the fact that most kids don't have access to school breakfasts and school lunch any more. >> three meals must include a balanced variety of milwaukee, fruit, vegetables, grains and protein. >> by offering whole foods and varying options, we are finding we are changing their palat and quite frankly changing their lifestyle. they are going home and asking parents can i get a papaya or fresh pine apple or orange. >> in baltimore, the number of kids taking free summer meals is actually slightly down this year, perhaps a bar ometer of an improving economy. the government estimates in 2012, 10% of american households

were unable to provide enough nutritious food for their children. tom ackerman, al jazeera, baltimore. now, north korea has given a group of russians rare access into the demil tarized zone. 35 people in the united confederation of koreanans in russia visited pyongon and will carry on into south korea to promote peace. pope francis is delivering a similar message in south korea. he continues to attract huge crowds on his visit. hundreds of thousands turned out for an open air mass which featured a beatfication ceremony. ays harry fawset was theredawse ruling for the hundreds of thousands of people, this was the center piece of pope francis's 5-day visit, a huge open-air mass in downtown seoul, a chance for catholics, young and old, to see their holy father up close.

he reserved a special honor for families of those killed in april's ferry disaster walking up to the tented village where they have been demanding an independent investigation and bestowing his blessings. >> the pope makes his way through crowds of people thronging the square, there is no mistaking the scale of this event. nothing has been seen like it for more than a decade. it's a significant moment not only for south korea but the catholic church in asia. so, although this mass was very much about the history of the corps ian catholic church, beatfying 1248r space 18th and 19th century contact liingz killed for their beliefs, pope francis was keen to tie their story to the church's present day relevance in a region where catholicism is growing. their example has much to say to us who live in societies where alongside immense wealth, dire

poverty is silently growing, where the cry of the poor is seldom heeded and where christ continues to call out to us asking us to love and serve him by tending to our brothers and sisters in need. >> the pope's messages, his very presence resonating with 170,000 catholics invited here from churches across the country. >> even though i saw him far away, i was so overwhelmed and my heart was pounding so hard. i am so grateful and indescribably happy. >> our country has been going through numerous hardships and there are many people suffering in poverty. just by the fact that the pope is here in a divided country, we are so blessed. sglush. >> later in a part of his visit that has attracted some controversy, pope francis went to a care home south of seoul which has been accused of old-fashion practices and financial irregularities. but in embracing the poor and

the disabled, the pope continued one of this visit's main themes, emphasizing the plight of those left on the margins in an uncreasingly unequal world. harry fawcetttseoul. >> more on our website, aljazeera.com for you there. . >> when you look at a concept like gaza, people say war is hell. what can you do? >> indisriminate and wrecklets attacks violate the laws of war but the executive director believes calling attention to abuses can make a difference. >> the truth is everybody cares about their reputation in respecting rights. >> ken roth says basic human dignity is one issue among many that