an an uneasy calm in gaza after israeli air strikes once again hit targets in the strip. ♪ ♪ welcome to al jazerra live from doha. coming up in the next third minutes. after days of gun battles libyan fighters say that they have taken control of the airport in tripoli. dozens are killed in iraq as attacks rock two cities in the north and the capital. and ukraine marks independence day in kiev, as

pro-russian separatists battle in the east. ♪ ♪ an israel i air strike has destroyed a multi-story apartment building in gas actual the army says hamas fighters were inside. dissipate calls for israel and palestinian factions to call a ceasefire and resume negotiations, there has been continued fighting in gaza. two palestinians were killed in an israeli air strike on sunday. 11 were killed in attacks on saturday. well, jane ferguson is our correspondent in gas, a been following events for us over this last 24 hours. people waking up to yet more destruction in the strip, jane, just bring us up to speed on the latest developments. >> reporter: those air strikes that you mention are ongoing. just within the last hour we have heard more air strikes in

this area that i am standing in gaza city. there has been no let up in the air strikes despite hopes that peace talks could resume in cairo, as you mentioned at least two people killed overnight. but there were huge scenes of destruction in both cities rafah and gaza city here with high-rise buildings being collapsed entirely by those air strikes, as you'll see now in my colleague's report. >> reporter: after more than six weeks of fighting, this is perhaps the largest act of property destruction by israeli forces in a single strike. distraught residents fled the area with lets more than the clothes on their back. several people were injured, including many children. >> translator: we were informed about half an hour before the shelling, this tower has 11 floors and 32 families were

living there. the minute we evacuated the place was hit by a warning rocket and immediately after the f-16s fired two rockets, the building collapsed completely, automatiall families are now ine streets, god help us all. >> reporter: israel's military says the building was targeted because it was being used by hamas, but residents deny n the destruction of the tower was the further escalation of the truce. mahmoud abbas met with egyptian president abdul fatah el cease i. >> what concerns us is ending the bloodshed. once that happens the humane humanitarian relief aid and building must restart. >> reporter: many residents of the gaza strip want to see an end to the violence but only if israel agrees to lift its year's long blockade which has strangled the economy.

in the background of the renewed violence and calls for a ceasefire are strong signs palestinian officials may apply to join the international criminal court. that would able them to call for an investigation in to whether israel may have committed war crimes, but joining the i.c.c. would also mean that they too could face the same scrutiny. al jazerra, gaza. let's cross to jackie our correspondent in west jerusalem. israeli cabinet will be meeting on sunday and i suppose much for them to discuss and ponder on, including the ongoing bombardment of gaza as we have seen and the restarting of talks potentially at the behest of egypt. >> reporter: the government has been coming under a lot of criticism people want to go know why after 48 days of bombardment in gaza, bearing in mind there have been a few she's fires the

why hamas is still able to strike not only targets in the immediate periphery of the gaza strip but also deep in to israel itself. the israeli government is under pressure from some of the extreme right wingers that belong to the coalition of netanyahu. they seem the tactic is just to hit gaza harder and harder. there is also the pressure of israeli public opinion. this is a factor which affects the israel i government but does not affect hamas, because as we have seen in the gaza strip, tactics such as carrying out public executions tends to quiet down people expressing opinions contraire to those in charge. in israel the opinions of those people in the southern communities and the sympathy that other people around israel feel for them is putting pressure on the government. people want to know why can we not live in safety in our own homes why have you the government who we have given our

trust to defend the nation, why are you not able to preend us from being under threat from these mortars. there is criticism and wonder if the government has an exit plan. it's not trying to topple hamas, it's trying to career he had eight it, create deterrents, whether or not the government can achieve it is not something the people are convinced about. >> we'll come back to you when that meet being concludes for analysis, for the moment thank you for joining us from west jerusalem. since the conflict began in july, eighth eight israelis have been killed, including three civilians, a thai national was also killed in israel. 200106 palestinians have been killed. and more than 10 1/2 thousand people have been injured. united nations says 71% of those killed are civilians.

fight nurse libya say that they have captured the airport. rival brigades have been battling for control at a extra strategic airport that has been closed for more than a month amid increasing violence, here is more. >> reporter: libyan fighters storm the capital's airport. after days of gun battles, the dawn brigades say they are now in full control. >> lib again forces have gained control over a camp which is a major step to the tripoli international airport and currently the forces are going inside and around tripoli international airport. >> reporter: the airport has been closed since july 13th because of the violence. thousands have been forced to leave the area. most of the airport has now been destroyed. and it's the rivals militia which has been defending it.

the group took over the airport last month. it's been the main fighting force in tribally since the fall of muammar qaddafi in 2011. on saturday, a war plane launched strikes on the positions of the dawn brigades. killing more than a dozen. it's not known who ordered the attack. the rebels are blaming external forces. >> translator: based o on the intelligence that we have the egyptian and uae governments are involved in this attack, we stress that we have good relations with the good people oy i didn't want and the uae. but the libyan rebels wants to make it clear that we will always defend the sovereignty of our homeland against this aggression. >> reporter: the renegade generally. based in the eastern city of ben benghazi, he began a campaign to crush the many rebel gripes in may. the government accrueses him of trying to take over the the

government. there were protests against him and his campaign, thousands of people rallied across six cities, this has been the story of libya since the militia. the force that his over threw qaddafi has turned their guns on each other and describe libya as a failed state. iran's foreign minister has arrived in baghdad for talks with iraqi leaders. he is scheduled to meet prime minister designate. according to iranian state news, the political developments following 24 hours of violence in iraq. three car bombs exploded in the oil-rich city of kirkuk killing 18 people, a bombing in erbil. the iraqi army and the kurdish mesh perking a arper herringer o fight off i.s.

here is more. >> reporter: security forces in the kurdish capital are on even higher alert than normal following a rare explosion on saturday night. officials say that a sticky bomb attached to the under carriage of a car detonate odd a main road in the city. this is the peshmerga kurdish forces are fight to go several front trying to retake territory from the islamic state group. one of the towns is 20-kilometers from the iranian border in northeast iraq. iranian forces are said to have backed the curr wish fighters the iranian foreign minister is here. now, that prime minister has a tough job on his hands, he is trying to contain the fallout of what is being termed of a massacre at a sunni mosque. that one being blamed on shia militia members. it's not entirely clear who exactly is responsible, but the

government has vowed to bring whoever is to justice. all of that is jeopardizing efforts to form a government within the deadline that they need to form a new iraqi government including sunnis, kurds and all the other factions to try to tackle the security issues. there has been fighting in aleppo between government and opposition fighters. these images reportedly show rebels shelling government soldier housing. one target watt the central prison. in a video that can't be verified. firing a cannon at government-held positions. ukrainian president is said the country remains under constant threat for the foreseeable future. he also said $3 billion has been

allocate today he equipment the army over the next three years, they are celebrating a holiday, marking ukraine's independence from the soviet union in 1991, in the far east of the country, fighting persists between pro-russia separatists and the ukrainian army. neave barker said us this report from the outskirts of luhansk. >> reporter: we are on the road to luhansk. a city under siege. the red cross have been trying to reach the city for several days. but the route is still too dangerous. this hospital, close to the frontline is running out of supplies. they are now dependent on the red cross for help. >> most of the patients are victims of shellings, this is what we can see from medical point of view. the bot sum that one. >> reporter: on a visit to keif the german chancellor angela merkel called for an effective ceasefire, she also warned that russia could face fresh

sanctions if it failed to bring about an end to the conflict. >> translator: the plan is on the table about how to achieve piecpeace with each other. now actions must follow and i than many initiatives have been taken from the ukrainian side. >> reporter: in luhansk, the weak and vulnerable are suffering the most. 83-year-old woman was severely injured while sitting on a park bench. she'll never walk again. high above luhansk, ukrainian soldiers are poised for more shelling. this is one ukrainian artillery position used to continually bombard the city of luhansk one of the last remaining separatist pockets of resistence. here in eastern ukraine the battlefield shift on his a daily basis. in the nearby town of donetsk, locals are celebrating their allegiance to kiev. the town was recaptured by ukrainian forces a month ago.

>> we need to live in a free country in our ukraine, not in russia. >> reporter: germany has pledged $670 million to rebuild the war-ravaged region. but with little prospect of a ceasefire in sight, there can be no hope of a new start. neave bark he should al jazerra, on the outskirts of luhansk. well, still to come here on al jazerra, we are back in the capital of yemen where protesters continue their chants for change. and iceland closes parts of its air space an eruption under its largest glazer glacier.

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♪ ♪ welcome back. you are watching al jazerra: these are our top stories. an israeli air strike has destroyed a multi-story apartment building in gas a the army says hamas fighters were inside. despite calls for israel and palestinian faction to his call for a ceasefire and resume negotiations, there has been continued fighting in the strip. fight nurse libya say that they have captured tripoli's main international airport after days of intense fighting with nationalist militia. rival brigades had been battling for control of the strategic airport which has been closed for more than a month amid increasing violence,. after 24 hours of violence and bombings across iraq, iran's foreign minister has arrived in baghdad for talks, he will meet with iraq's prime minister

designate. now, yemen's government has offered to resign and to review an unpopular decision to cut fuel subsidies. the proposal includes an offer to form a new government in a month. 10s of thousands of shia have been protesting for days calling on the government to resign. following events from the capital in yemen. what more do we know about the contents that have proposal put forward by the government? it's quite a lengthy document. >> reporter: absolutely. what we know so far is that they still insist that they want three demands met. first they want the government to go. second them the government to reverse the decision to increase fuel prices. third they want a genuine power system established in yemen. the delegation set up by the president to lead the negotiations is on its way back

to -- for further talks with the president. the talks have not hit an impasse yet. but there are loads of things at stake. it's going it be a very painful political process in yemen. it's going to take quite sometime before they reach an agreement. yemen has reached a point where now there are only two possible scenarios being ideal that would diffuse the tension or failure that would lead to more instability and violence. >> now, they have been in the capital protesting on the streets for the past few days. you have been speaking to them. what sort of sense do you get from them? is there any sense of compromise? are they willing to talk about that? >> reporter: they say they will make some concessions, but they insist that they have to be taken seriously by the political or the mainstream political establishment in yemen. we are talking about a group that emerged from nowhere a decade ago. now they are the most powerful

political faction in yemen. they control huge swaths of land that stretch from sadder to the north to the capital. they are definitely going to be a significant power broker in yemen in the future. and you see, the problem they are in a way upsetting the political establishment in yemen. the old guard is very nervous about it. the bottom line today in yemen is this, they are sending a clear message to the political establishment, if we are not taking seriously as a real, genuine partner in this government, everything is going to fail. there is not going to be stability in the future. we are going to make some concessions, but we want this government to go and they want to be recognized as a very powerful entity in yemen. >> it's still a very fluid situation there. we'll come back to you as that situation develops. thanks. now, road accidents in bang bangladesh result in fatalities

30 times of the rate in the u.s. or the u.k., a major reason is the country has no first aid response system to emergencies. al jazerra takes a look at one group trying to change that. this is the emergency room. a public hospital. patients end up here from all over bangladesh. many have been turned away by emergency rooms in other hospitals. >> a lot of physicians are -- a lot of emergency rooms aren't completely equipped to deal with trauma patients are they are not comfortable dealing with trauma patients and you certainl certar from the two major public trauma centers a huge number of their patients have been turned away at other hospitals before they arrive there. >> reporter: he says went to two other hospitals before he was finally admitted to this one. >> translator: it took us a long time to get here. a few hours. but even once we arrived. it took about an hour or an hour and a half before a doctor

finally came to see me. >> reporter: but he and the others here are fortunate. they are alive and getting treatment. this is where a lot of the misery happens. emergency room doctors in bangladesh complain that every day patients arrive much too late and end up dieing from complications that could have easily been treated or avoided. >> bangladesh doesn't have an emergency response system. no easy number to dial like 911 or 999, when there is an accidents, paramedics don't rush to the scene. but a group called critical link is trying to change that. it's training volunteers in first aid to turn them in to bangladesh's first, first responders. critical link has a phone number for people to report accidents to a call center which then notifies volunteers through an app. guided by gps a nearby volunteer heads to the accident site to treat victims as soon as possible.

one of the volunteers remembers how helpless he felt one year ago as a rescue working at the site of the factory collapse. >> i have seen those accidents, i was there to help. but it was not easy for me to help them because i have no training. >> reporter: despite its hardships they have seen innovative solutions to the problems their people face if it catches on, it may well be another bangladesh success story. al jazerra,. ice slant on high alert after a small lava eruption was detected under a glacier near a volcano. the country has banned air traffic over the area and raised its alert level to red. that's its highest warning and means a volcano could soon erupt. the region was a vac waited ace precaution earlier this week. kim vinnell has been following the events. >> reporter: the small lava eruption started at around midday local time.

and it's what's called a subglacial he runs, it's underneath the glacier that's island's biggest. scientists don't know if or when the magma will reach the surface, they don't know exactly how much pressure is in the magma chamber and whether that pressure will be enough to push through the hundreds of meters of ice at the points at which it's coming up. but thurman touring it very, very closely, there are scientists flying over the area, they will be updating this. and advising locals, advice people in the region accordingly. thousands of protesters have marched in the u.s. city of ferguson in missouri to mark two weeks since police shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. several other demonstrations took place in new york and washington to protest against alleged police brutality. in st. louis, though, a counter rally was held in support of the police officer who shot michael

brown. jason johnson is a professional and explains how some white americans are reacting to the shooting. >> there is a huge divide within the white community in ferguson as to how they viewed what happened. i have at a church meeting two days ago, a lot of residents there are more concerned about how ferguson looks in the news about what actually occurred. then you have a large number of white residents who basically don't like african americans in general and are in general support of the police, there is a split in the white community and even a difference in strategy in the black community as to how to move forward. institutional racism is a real thing. there are a large number of white americans in this country who are very angry about there being an african american president and angry about a growing latino population and angry about a growing air inning population. this is not the first time we have seen this sort of hostility and resistence in this countries rich. hate crimes have gone up in the united states since barack obama

was elected president. as an african american i see this not only historically but impair i cannily there is data that shows the hostility has increased even though many americans are happy that barack obama is president. the man who murdered john lennon has been denied parole for the eighth time. new york's parole board said 59-year-old mark david chapman would likely break the law again if released. in 1981 he shot lennon five times outside his manhattan apartment building with his wife yoko own oh, sh ono. the drug was hidden inside 360 buckets of disinfectant. since the beginning of the year ecuador vinnie police have found 38-tons of narcotics. officials in mexico say they found new leaks in a temporary damn built to stop a chemical spill from a mine. earlier this month millions of

liters of copper sulfate and heavy metals poured in to two rivers in the northwestern state. now the attorney general says a construction defect has allowed more toxic waste to flow out. officials have ordered a full infection of the spine and threatened fines up to $3 million. mexico city has now joined the ranks of other major international cities with a new aquarium to drawing crowds at home and from abroad. the project was partly barked by one of the world's richest men. adam rainy reports now from mexico. three stories beneath one of mexico city's swankiest neighborhoods, sea life is teeming. more than 5,000 sea creatures are swimming in these underground waters representing more than 230 fresh and sea water species from around the world. so far, it's a hit with the crowds who pay an entrants fee of about $10 a person, although

mexico is famous for its thousands of kilometers of tropical beaches many in the capital have never been to the sea let alone down below its depth. >> translator: a lot of people can't go to the beach and see sea life. so it's really cool that they now can see that here. >> reporter: the aquarium draws a lot of families with young children. >> it's really important to expose kids to this. because it's stimulates them. >> reporter: there is big business underpinning these underground tanks. carlos slim, mexico's richest man, is the aquarium's main sponsor, primarily through his bank. above ground, the aquarium is surrounded by several cultural attractions that are aned in large part by slim. the aquarium attracted thousands of people on opening day and administrators say they hope to see more than a million people pass through its doors in the first year alone. now it sits across the street from carlos slim's museum and a whole arts and cultural complex that includes a broadway-style

theatre a shopping mall. slim and other investors hope this latest attraction will continue to bring more people to the space to spends their time and money. the aquarium director says art and culture are good business these days. >> it's like a one-top, all day, you know, going for to a museum, the aquarium, theater, you have movie theaters around, like it's one-stop cultural tour, yeah. >> reporter: financial writer eduardo garcia has researched slim for years. he says the sponsorship has more to do with marketing. >> their bank brand is not very well known in mexico city or outside of mexico city, so they are using a novelty entertainment place in the capital of the country to put their name there. >> reporter: whether or not the aquarium makes much profit. the man behind it will surely keep attracting millions of people to his brand.

adam rainy, al jazerra, mexico city. these are the latest images coming out of tel aviv where benjamin netanyahu is addressing the people. we'll breathe you further ore what he says in our bulletins.