inside story. and in washington i'm ray suarez. feeling divisions in iraq, kurdish mp's return to parliament as the fight against the islamic state continues. the group's beheading of a u.s. journalist has been condemned in washington and europe. ♪ i'm in doha, also coming up in the next half hour. hundreds attend the funerals in gaza for the victims of israeli air strikes after the collapse of the ceasefire. and protesters demanding the resignation of pakistan's prime minister begin talks with the

government. ♪ iraq's ethnic and political divisions have been widening for months now, placing the country's future under threat. but now at least one sign of reconciliation. kurdish ministers are returning to the central government. now the kurds are in charge of their autonomous region in the north. their mp's include a foreign minister who pulled out of the national government last month. now they were in dispute with prime minister maliki, but now maliki is on his way out, blamed for deepening iraq's sectarian divisions. the man whose got the task of healing those wounds now is the new prime minister designate. monica has this report. kurdish politicians are coming back.

the block had left prime minister maliki's government two months ago after he accused them of helping terrorists. now there is a common enemy. the islamic state group. kurdish foreign minister resumed his official agenda and urged the international community to help iraq fight the islamic state. malky is on his way out, but during his weekly address he had this advice. >> translator: security, construction, economic stability are all dependent on the political stability where there is no tension, division, enemy,s, or struggle between the parliament or the government. >> reporter: maliki lost support at home and abroad and his army became perceived as a shiite

force. but things have changed since forces started backing the national army. a sign of unity the country desperately needs. and a challenge for the man who inherits the crisis as he tried to reach out to different factions. >> zana is in the capitol with more on the challenges ahead for the government. >> we still haven't heard from the newly designated prime minister al-abdi. but maliki giving him advice to try to unite the country. but maliki is the man who has been blamed for the current crisis in iraq. the knew prime minister needs to reach out to all political factions. now there seems to be support from the kurds. curds saying they are ready to hold talks on forming a new

government, but they want a great irsay. but right now the main sticking point is luring the sunnis. the sunni politicians in bagdad are not seen as legitimate representatives of that community. tribal leaders are saying they need a greater say. and unless they get a greater say they are not going to take up arms against the islamic state group. so there are steps forward, but the sunnis are key and it's because they felt marginalized and alienated, iraq at the same time appealing to the international commune for help to fight the group. the italian leader was the latest to arrive to help form talks. germany the latest country to send weapons. the french government as described the islamic state

group murder of a u.s. journalist as barabac. the group released a i have you showing the beheading of james foley. the fighter in the video seems to have a british accent. the group says foley's killing is in response to what it calls u.s. aggression towards them. there has been an apparently rise in the involvement o. uknationals joining the islamic state in syria and iraq. reuters estimates the majority of the islamic state 21,000 fighters are from the elsewhere. 1,000 are thought to be from chef anyia and other russian satellite states. with 500 from britain, france

and elsewhere in the west. this man says people who join groups like islamic state often face a personal crisis. >> the foundations for these groups has been set in london and the uk and across europe for decades. the process by which someone is recruited has to start with some sort of personal crisis. the leader of the 77 bombers his personal crisis was he wanted to marry his girlfriend and not have an arranged marriage. they are guided through one of four pathways. the first is they believe they have to set up an islamic state

their government of sharia, and spread that around the world. second they are given a wharped form of theology that says not only should you do it, but god wants you to do it. the third pathway vl that some people genuinely are affected in terms of they have some personal loss, and finally they also target people with mental health problemings. in london one of the billers of rigby was being treated for mental health issues before he carried out the murder. this has been going on for a number of years, and there are many people in the uk to asubscribe to the extremism, and there will be a number of people who have been thinking for a while that they want to do this, but now that isis has set this up so-called islamic state, some

may feel it's their duty to go out and do it. >> reporter: air strikes have resumed in the gaza strip. israel says it was responding to rockets fired from gaza. israel has stepped up security along the border. israeli soldiers and tanks have been patrolling the area, and israeli ships are reportedly shelling the gaza coastline. 66 israelis have been killed including two civilians since the beginning of the operation in early july. a thai national was also killed in israel. more than 10,000 have been injured. most of the dead and injured have been civilians. hundreds of people have attended funerals for the latest victims of israel's air strikes. here is our report. >> reporter: the funeral for the

youngest victim of this new round of hostilities is the son of the leader of a hamas's military wing. the toddler and his wife were killed when a missile hit their house. at least 45 people were injured in the same air strike. it's not clear whether the commander was in the house at the time. he was israel's intended target. hamas says they missed it. the house was not very far from here, and many of the people immediately ran to the un shelters as soon as they heard about it. >> reporter: many fled at night while air strikes and the rocket fire were intensifying. but this woman and her 16 children live in one of the border areas where most of the fighting happened. >> translator: we had so much hope the ceasefire would last. do you think we are happy with this war? we were hearing about the

possibility of a ten-year piece fire. >> reporter: an estimated 250,000 people have taken refuge in the un schools before the ceasefire. some had gone back home during the ceasefire, which was short lived. >> translator: i had to come back here for my children. i don't know what more can israel hit? we don't have any choice. either we live or we die. there is nothing left for us. >> reporter: here, people fear it could happen again. they don't know how much longer this war will last, but for now, this the safest place they can be in gaza. at least 34 civilians and 9 soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours as ukraine's army battles pro-russian separatists in the east. the ukrainian military is trying to surround the city of donetsk.

some residents near donetsk have tried to escape the fighting. others have taken refuge in the basement. they are also trying to drive separatists out of the city of luhansk. protesters have scaled one of moscow's skyscrapers and flow the ukrainian flag on top. four suspects have been detained and charged with vandalism. the ukrainian president has welcomed think raising of the flag, calling it a symbolic gesture. eric holder is set to visit the town where there has been fighting with police over the death of an unarmed black teenager. president obama sent holder to ferguson to investigate the shooting of michael brown. rob reynolds as the latest.

>> reporter: relative calm returned to ferguson tuesday after nights of unrest. instead of the stench of tear gas or burning shops, the air was filled with the chance of peaceful protests. the family of michael brown, the 18 year old who's slaying at the hands of a ferguson police officer while unarmed touched off the racially tinged uproar, announced that his funeral will be held on mopgd, august 25th. that's the same day that area schools are due to reopen after a week's delay. welcome news for students like 17-year-old mia austin. >> this is affecting us horribly, because we're expecting expec expecting to be in school. this is not helping the grade average. >> reporter: other long-time residents believe it's time for the protests that have disrupted life here to end. >> this has been ten days now. it should have been over with several days ago.

>> reporter: with a grand jury expected to meet wednesday to consider evidence against darren wilson, the officer who police said shot brown, and with a federal civil rights probe underway, missouri governor put out a message calling for respect for the law and justice for the brown family. >> a vigorous prosecution must now be pursued. the prosecutor and the attorney general of the united states each have a job to do. their obligation to achieve justice in the shooting death of michael brown must be carried out thoroughly, promptly, and correctly. >> reporter: the mayor said he would make stronger efforts to recruit african american officers to the town's nearly all white police officer. but young people here say few black youths in ferguson dream of a law enforcement career. >> everyone sees how the cops

are treating us now and kids say i don't want to be a cop. >> reporter: the rifts withi the community will take a long time to be closed, but a night without violence is a decent start. rob ronalds, ferguson, missouri. buried by a river of mud. dozens of people are killed by landslides? japan. and guatemalan banana farmers want more labor rights, but we'll tell you why many are afraid to organize. ♪ stuart! stuart!

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a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera. iraq's kurdish politicians have rejoined the central government, including the foreign minister who pulled out of the government last month. western governments have condemned the apparently murder of a u.s. journalist by the islamic state group. hundreds of people have attended fun -- fun -- funerals for the dead from the latest israeli air strikes in the gaza strip. protesters have begun talks to end the political crisis, thousands of protesters have been surrounding the parliament

in islamabad demanding the resignation of the prime minister. kamal has been following developments from outside parliament in islam bad. >> reporter: even though the stakes are very high, the mood is festive. the politician will sit across the negotiating table and resolve this crisis as soon as possible. for the first time the government's team was able to meat with the professor. cadre said at that meeting that he never refused the option of negotiation but that the government was not serious about that. however, today for the first time, a government delegation was able to meet with dr. cadre, and agree with the fact that

talks will now get underway. it is warned that the heard and his supporters will march against the prime minister's house. they have blocked the road leading to the prime minister's house, and there is still some hope that some sort of political settlement is possible. however, they are insisting that the prime minister has to resign. a cairo court hasn't landed down life sentences in absentia to 17 supporters of outed president morsi. hundreds of other morsi supporters have been sentenced to death in recent months, most on charges of murder, attempted murder, initiating violence and joining the muslim brotherhood. al jazeera is demanding the

release of its three journalist who have now be in prison in egypt for 235 days. they were falsely accused of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood. mohammed fahmy and peter greste were given seven-year sentences. baher mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. iran's parliament has dismissed the minister of science, research and technology. conservatives say he supported teachers who universities saw as prowestern. some suggest that his impeachment was by hard liners who were trying to sabotage the participate's efforts to reform government institutions. this man believes that parliament was right to impeach the science minister.

>> well it is not as they expected, but they had damming evidence against the minister, i think. he did a very poor job over the past nine months or so. it was a very bad judgment by the president to support his minister. he shouldn't have done that, because this fan was not qualified. he went against the law on national security. we should say hats off for impeaching him, raising the question. at the same time this is not the end of the story. there man -- this man [ inaudible ] almost 58% of the university officials and staff over the past nine months and replaced those with political affiliations to the president. i think he has to take this seriously because he is politicizing everything. he has to stick to his promise of moderation.

36 people have died and 7 others are missing after a series of land slides in japan. harry fawcett has more. >> reporter: this was one of the worst-hit neighborhoods. two boys age 11 and 2 were buried alive. victims with the sheer speed with which this disaster unfolded. a cloud burst dropping more than 100 millimeters of rain in an hour. >> translator: i woke up in the middle of the night and the corridor was already flooded. i heard the sound of water coming in, and the river rushed towards my house. >> translator: when i realized what was happening, there was mud flowing around and cars were being washed away. and then everything started sliding away. >> reporter: initially the government dispatched 30 military personnel, and then

raised the number to 500. the prime minister cutting short a holiday to oversee the response. >> translator: relief and rescue operations, i have ordered hundreds of troops to be deployed. >> reporter: opposition politicians have criticized him for starting a game of golf five hours after the disaster began, before cutting it short and returning to tokyo. questions are also being raised about the response of the local government. the first call came in at 3:00 am, the first evacuation order not until 4:20. the immediate focus is on search and rescue however. iceland is on high alert for the possible rep shun of one of its largest volcanos. there has been intense seismic activity since saturday.

four years ago, ash from an eruption shut down much of europe's air space, affecting more than 10 million people. in the u.s. texas governor, rick perry has been charged with two counts of abuse of power. the republican presidential hopeful turned himself in for fingerprinting and a photo. he is accused of threatening to block funding for a state ethics watchdog. perry says he will fight the charges. nine people held by the a peruvian rebel group have been recovered. officials believe members remained at large and are involved in peru's illicit drug trade. this operation has been underway now for close to two weeks. guatemala is one of the

world's top exporters of bananas. the banana industry provides employment for tens of thousands of workers, but labor right's groups say their working conditions are among the worst in the world. >> reporter: here banana workers meet to talk about alleged labor violations. this man says he was fired and blacklisted when he complaining about wages. guatemala is notoriously anti-union. and his colleagues are worried. >> the guys are 100% scared to speak up for fear of losing their jobs, but the payment is not right. >> reporter: guatemala is the world's third largest banana exporter, more than 30,000 men and women work in the industry. but some accuse banana producers

of exploitative conditions among the worst in the americas. guatemala is one of the world's original banana republics. an industry born from inequality and oppression. over on the country's caribbean coast, unions have won important advances, but a wave of violence accompanied the changes. leading guatemala to become known as one of the most dangerous countries for trade unionists. >> translator: since 2007, 12 leaders have been assassinated. >> reporter: now he is worried the workers he represents might lose their jobs as banana producers move to the pacific coast where labor is cheaper.

he and others say the key to stopping the loss is to equallize salaries through unionizing workers on the pacific. 80% of people say they are not opposed to forming unions, but they told al jazeera, it is simply not necessary . . . if that's the case, then this man and his neighbors say they should be ability to negotiate without fear of retribution, then he says, perhaps all workers here will be able to truly get ahead. spanish football giants barcelona will be banned from signing any players until 2016. the club has been penalized for the illegal transfer of players

under the age of 18. the recent signing of suarez will be allowed to stand but they won't be allowed to transfer any players for the next two transfer periods. they have announced they will appeal. >> reporter: -- one of the world's best known yoga teachers has died. she died early on wednesday from renal failure. he was age 95. he had been practicing yoga for nearly 80 years. here is our report. >> reporter: this is one of the few times these yoga students will ever sit still in class. they are here to mourn the passing of a great leader. >> he was a practiced yoga man. he practiced yoga for more than

six hours every day. and every hour every minute, he thinks about yoga, and he developed so many new techniques. >> reporter: he began to study yoga when he was a child with health problems. he later popularized what was then a solely indian tradition in more than 70 countries. today the style allows students with varying level of skills to practice the many facets of yoga. he remained active in the yoga community through writings and classes. his style of yoga, famous the world over, bares his name. at this government yoga school, his teachings on the health benefits of yoga are studied in the classroom and practiced in

the studio. he is credited with making yoga accessible. >> translator: yoga has been made very simple for us, and people who found it difficult, it has been made easy for them too. >> reporter: he was awarded two of india's highest honors. and his influence in the yoga world will long be remembered. ♪ >> hi, you are in the stream. the government agency charged with keeping your foods safe is pulling 700 insmackpecialers in the poultry plants. what it means nor food safety. >> what happens to a chicken before getting to your plate. 8 and a half billion animals killed for food. the producers of a documentary called mississippi chicken exposed the ma