♪ battle for iraq, kurdish and iraq forces say they are in control of the strategic mosel dam. ♪ hello, you are with al jazeera, we are live from doha, i'm marteen and wick cherokee leak says he will leave ecuador's embassy in london. police have tear gas at ferguson, missouri once again and the governor orders in the national guard. bidding a final farewell, brazil

pays respects for the one killed in a plane crash. ♪ the iraq army with kurdish forces have taken control of the north country and mosel dam has been in the control of fighters of islamic state group for months now and advance of kurdish forces in the region is helped by u.s. air strikes and this is video released by u.s. military showing islamic state targets being struck in northern iraq, live to irbil, the capitol of the kurdish region in northern iraq and our correspondent is jane and bring us up to date because we are hearing the iraq cherokee army has been fighting alongside the kurdish and together they

managed to secure the mosel dam. >> well, as you can imagine it's a huge target, the mosel dam is a vast facility and there is fierce fighting going on although the iraq government would like to declare victory in this it seems a bit premature perhaps. what we do know some units of the iraqi forces, not regular army but it appears the highly specialized and highly trained u.s. counter terrorism forces have been in the fight and significantly involved in the fight with kurdish forces, something the u.s. has been eager to do. in terms of fighting for the dam it is still underway. this is a major, critical piece of infrastructure and islamic group fighters are holding on quite firmly to it. it has been slow going to the dam but it appears they are backed by iraqi special forces

and counter terrorism teams and have been making progress and still not in control of the dam yet we are told. >> what is the fact the iraq cherokee army itself seems to have dusted itself down and come back in the fray? >> extremely significant. again, not the army per se, the regular army is one that has a lot of problems. it's the army that melted away when the islamic state group took mosel and that army is being restructured and not talking about a lot of ground troops but we are talking about the elite of security forces, counter terrorism teams who the united states spent years and a lot of money training on a very individual basis. those are the teams that seem to have retained that training and they are the ones that u.s. forces seem comfortable working with. so we are told they played a lead role in the fight and

significantly worked together with the kurdish forces. the u.s. central command last night said iraq and kurdish forces were working together and it's something the u.s. has been keen to see given this is an immense security challenge and the only way they see a defeat of the islamic state group is with iraq cherokees and kurds working side by side. >> okay, thank you, jane, correspondent live in arbil. as jane was suggesting, the kurdish forces have managed to retake a series of towns around this mosel dam area, taking these towns from islamic state fighters over resent days and correspondent zana is on the front lines of this battle and she sent us this report from close to mosel. the kurdish are on the offensive. they are in battle with the islamic state group. but the kurdish forces are not

fighting alone. the u.s. airforce is covering their advance from the skies. but the islamic state group is not making their task easy. we can see explosions from within the towns they control. they have also been leaving behind bombs on the side of the road as they retreat. one of the objectives of this military operation is to recapture the mosel dam, the largest in iraq from the islamic state group which controls one-third of the country. it's a strategic installation that provides water and electricity to surrounding areas. there are many front lines in this war. they advanced on more than one front. we are just 30 kilometers from the city center of mosel, the stronghold of the islamic state group. in this region east of mosel the kurdish recaptured three towns, one of them is here.

this is evident of the fight. kurdish fighters managed to shoot one of the vehicles belonging to the islamic state group but we were not able to enter here because they are conducting clearing operations. it is one of three christian towns they regained control of since the operation began early on sunday and commanders are confident but it may be too early to declare victory. but they are hoping the people of the towns will be able to return home. the islamic state groups resent advance in the north displaced tens of thousands of people. >> translator: our president told us to save the christians and other minorities. we are here to protect them. we succeeded and purchased the islamic state back. >> reporter: but taking territory is not the same as holding it. kurdish forces are ill equipped and lack training and last week they captured many regions as it

advances to the kurdish north. it was then the u.s. fighter jets and armed drones intervened and obama administration repeated time and time again their military objective is to protect minorities and kurdish territories but seems the military operation expanded and the objective is to allow partners on the ground to go on the offensive, southeast of mosel dam. >> in the last few minutes or so the wick cherokee league founder has been speaking and he said he will leave the ecuador embassy in london where he has been held up for more than two years, in fact, in side this, embassy and seeking political sanctuary and 43-year-old is being investigated by u.s. authorities since his website leaked military and diplomatic documents in 2010 and has an

arrest warrant in sweden of sexual assault and he denies the allegations and we will go to lawrence lee who is there and he has been across the press conference. is lawrence with us? can lawrence hear? >> can you see the big blue bmw there? that is the ecuador foreign minister that just left the press conference he held jointly and finished a minute or two ago, the foreign minister is gone but he is still up inside and a couple hours ago there has been a question that he may be using this for two years after

given asylum saying he will leave and some people calling it surrender which he didn't like but the worst suggestion is he was quite unwell. >> lawrence, can i interrupt you? i think we should hear. >> he might have to leave. >> we should hear a little bit of what julian had to say as he sat next to the ecuador foreign minister inside the embassy and let's listen to what he has to say. >> as you can imagine being detained in various ways in the country without charge for four years and in them ba si for two years which has no outside area and no sunlight, it is an environment in which any healthy person would find themselves soon enough with certain

difficulties. >> reporter: so really muffled sound, wasn't it, lawrence but i did pick up he was talking about the conditions being pretty poor, obviously being locked inside somewhere for two years is not good for anybody but there is a lot of speculation as to the state of his health at the moment, isn't there? >> yes, just to continue, what i was saying before, the speculation was his health has become sufficiently poor and he was going to have to leave and that would have involved basically running the police because the police said consistently and for the two years he has been here if he were to try to walk out of those doors they would put him in handcuffs straight away and take him to sweden to face sexual assault allegations and perhaps he felt or feels that if his physical condition is sufficiently poor that he might be given some form of clemency. frankly i doubt it. i also doubt that what the ecuador foreign minister said is

relations between ecuador and uk have been sufficiently good to try to free him which ecuador says should happen and i doubt that will happen too because the uk authorities are very much in step with the americans and very much see julian as broken bail conditions and thinks he should go to sweden to face the allegations. if you boil it down and he said i'm not leaving, i'm going to leave soon at an unspecified date and not now and he is in there and what you have is a news conference where again he has given an opportunity to give his point on human rights and europe and the rest of the world but out of no where because of his claim he might be about to leave, there are 25 television cameras returned and there is no movement here on the story that is very meaningful, what it does say more than anything else i do think the power that he has to

corral the media over what has significance because the press has simply gathered again in ecuador and the embassy. >> we are outside the embassy in 9th bridge in central london and as julian announces he will leave the embassy soon. united states and missouri governor ordered in the national guard to ferguson following another series of violent events, heavy military officers fire gas and smoke canisters at protesters who are angry at a killing of an unarmed black teenager and earlier an autopsy that was commissioned by the family into the death revealed police shot michael brown six times. if found the teenager was shot twice in the head with one of the bullets entering the top of the skull. all bullets struck the teenager from the front and rob reynolds

reports from ferguson, missouri. >> reporter: police in armored vehicle threw tear gas sunday night, eyewitnesses of several hundred and mostly young african/americans said police ordered them to disburse while they were peacefully protesting the killing of michael brown earlier in the month. eyewitnesses said there were some children up there. you can see these explosions going on and things are not calm. it was calm earlier. now there is a whole bunch of police vehicles that is moving forward and trying to sweep people in front of them. a molotov cocktail was thrown at them prompting them to act and helmets and gas masks moved down the street towards the protesters. ♪ it was an entirely different scene earlier in the day as hundreds of people packed a

ferguson church to donate money for michael brown's funeral and hear speeches by ministers and activists. >> i wear this uniform and i stand up here and say that i'm sorry. >> reporter: there is a deeply felt anger among residents of the city especially young people who say they are fed up with what they say are heavy handed and racially discriminatory practices by the local predominately white police force. the son of slain civil rights leader martin leather king junior attended the meeting. >> balance is the language of the unheard. >> no peace. >> reporter: federal authorities have now said a team of f.b.i. agents to begin investigating whether the killing violated civil rights law and the attorney general ordered a second autopsy to be performed on brown's body, a midnight to dawn curfew remains

in place for the foreseeable future, rob reynolds, ferguson, missouri. israeli soldiers raided the houses of the occupied west bank they suspect were involved in the kidnapping and murder of the three young israeli settlers. they were found dead in june near the city of hebron in the occupied west bank. israeli troops demolished the homes and a house was filled with concrete and jackie has the latest from jerusalem. >> this operation fits into a longstanding israeli policy of home demeanor escalations and home ceiling which has for years been used against palestinians suspected or convicted of various activities. now, in this case the operation

took place before dawn on monday. israeli troops went in and they placed explosive charges and demolished the homes of two people and a third suspect, in that case the troops sealed it off. what that means in practical terms is they pour a load of concrete into the home so it becomes uninhabitable so these are destroyed in the town of hebron earlier on monday. >> 53 people died in yemen in clashes between rebels and fighting troops and saw 7 armed fighters and one soldier killed in al-gal in the province and rebels called for a mass anti-government protest in the capitol on monday. now al jazeera continues to

demand the release of its three journalists who have now been in prison in egypt for 233 days. mohamed and peter g, are -- greste are accused of helping the muslim brotherhood and given 7 sentences and mohamed got an extra five years because of a bullet he picked up during a protest, breakthrough of ukraine army in the east as it tightens its grip on the city held by separatists for months and mian-mar, the race for one of the world's newest markets. ♪

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♪ looking at the top stories here at al jazeera, i regard and kurdish forces in north esh iraq are still trying to regain control of the country's dam in mosel despite the claims they defeated the fighters in the area. wick cherokee leak says he will leave the ecuador embassy in london soon and did not say exactly where nor did he explain the decision and said his health suffered during his more than two years at the embassy. the governor of missouri is sending in the national guard to ferguson after more violence in the city. there were clashes between protesters and police following the police killing of an unarmed

black teenager. now the fights between the islamic state group and other sources is also ranging to the west of iraq in syria. activists say at least six people have been killed after government jets dropped barrel bombs on the town of raka which is a major u.s. stronghold and we report. >> reporter: this is the aftermath of the latest air raids in iraq and jets dropped several barrel bombs here on sunday, dozens were wounded or killed. and not an uncommon scene in the war but observers say the city in particular has been enjoying a declared truce and it's under the control of the islamic state group for a year and a half. for most of the period the assad priorities focus on aleppo and other areas where they are in positional control but the army appears to be losing faith and wide in this area in particular.

is fighters have taken two army bases and now battling for control of the last government stronghold on the air base. islamic state fighters are moving on more than one front and taken more territory from the syrian army using what they describe as brutal tactics, in the last two weeks agree loan they killed 700 people in the providence, all of them from a sunni tribe. in other parts of the country the government campaign against opposition-held areas and northern syria and state fighters have been trying to stop attempts to take the area. extensive damage and fires as you can see here after nightly air raids in the country side of hamas in western syria. the syrian government say it targets opposition groups it calls terrorists but rights groups say in most cases it's

civilians who are killed or injured, i'm with al jazeera. ukraine military continuing its campaign to penetrate rebel-controlled areas in the east. as renewed fighting on the pro-russian stronghold of donsk and it covers the skyline and tens of thousands were killed on sunday and they advanced in the city of lahonsk taking control of one suburb. germany foreign minister is urging a cease fire between ukraine's army and separatists and they discussed this between ukraine ministers in berlin. >> translator: difficult talks but i think and hope we made progress on some points and agree we will go back to the capitol and report to the government and on tuesday we will decide when to continue the talks. >> reporter: now brazil said good-bye to one of the most

prominent leaders and he was killed with six others in a plane crash on wednesday and thousands turned out for his funeral and gabrielle alexander was there. >> reporter: saying good-bye to a man who could have been president of brazil and this is his home state and in shock. in the large working class northeast state they credit him for looking out for the poor and schools, roads and hospital clinics and say he never forgot his people even after launching his national campaign for president and millions resined to the corrupt nature of politics in the country he is a man who promised something new and clearly touched many lives. >> translator: what he did and what he was going to do for us nobody has been able to accomplish. nobody. he was a guy that fought for us. >> reporter: he was widely

beloved here and a governor for more than seven years and last won reelection in 2010 with more than 82% of the vote. there is a lot of positive things being said about compos by the people today but also a lot of uncertainty, no more so than where this presidential campaign goes from here. before his death incumbent led the polls with 38% of the vote and he was running in third place and widely believed his running mate will take his place on the ballot. his supporters especially the youth say they have no choice but to carry on. >> translator: campos is gone but we will continue on because those of us in politics and want to do it in a noble and loyal way his legacy continues in our hearts and minds. >> reporter: they mourn the man they wanted to be president but never had the chance to vote for.

gabrielle with al jazeera in brazil. and landslide in western napal killed more than 100 people and left a path of destruction, 126 people are still missing after three days of heavy rain. thousands of people have been forced out of their homes, health officials are worried about an outbreak of cholera and other water-born diseases and we report from northeastern nepal. >> reporter: it's the same story every year, floods, landslides, that take lives of hundreds and displacing thousands of people every monsoon season and behind me is a landslide site that took place two weeks ago where 156 people were buried and only 33 bodies recovered and the landslide blocked the river and there has been a lake that has been created and the army has worked for two weeks for channels to

let the waters out but there is disaster every monsoon is guaranteed something will happen. in the past week three days of draining means 200 people have been swept away by floods. and they say that the issue is not only about managing disasters after it has taken place but to be prepared for it every monsoon season. >> 15 foreign tourists are still missing after their ship sank in eastern indonesia and fisherman rescued a few of them on board and they were between islands for tourist destinations and the people operating the boat is blaming bad weather. mian-mar has possibly the worst telecommunication structure in the entire world and 5 or 10% of the population even owns a mobile phone but the government is trying to change all that and here is lawrence lowie. >> reporter: these people are part of a telecommunications

revelation sweeping across mian-mar and the only way to get an s i m card was a public lottery system or paying over 100 for it and buying one for $150 has people swarming in. >> we have been selling an average of 100 hand sets on a daily basis. >> reporter: for a long time the telly communications industry was monopolized by a state-owned enterprise but the government allowed two foreign companies to operate. this is a taxi driver who got his first mobile phone. >> translator: the reason i bought the phone is so i can get taxi orders from people and friends. >> reporter: he hasn't learned how to use it though and has trouble telling an incoming call from an outgoing one but wants to be able to one day surf the internet using his phone.

the booming phones here means more people will be able to access the internet. some industry experts saying this is a country where 1% of the population go online. and resent survey suggests that half of those who do use the internet do so through a mobile device. much more work needs to be done. there are only between 2000-3,000 transmission towers and the country will need at least ten times that number, hampered by infrastructure the foreign companies are launching services in three cities but aim to reach most of the population in five years and still many are optimistic. >> there is just an exponential amount of businesses that are now possible and we have a new connectivity going from e-how to e-money and it's very exciting time. >> reporter: for them the internet still seems a long way away. he first has to master the

basics of using his phone, lawrence lowie. >> reporter: you can always go to the website al jazeera.com where you can keep right up to date with all of the day's developing stories and today we are concentrating on that rather fluid situation taken place in the north of iraq. sanctions on russia are not stopping on american oil giant triing in the arctic. russia calls it a model of cooperation. will the good times last if the sanctions exist. billions are spent sprucing up neighbourhoods. the gentrification can take a toll on vulnerable residents. we look at what a midwestern city is doing to avoid that.