>> flooding kills hundreds in pakistan and india, and traps thousands more. hello, you are watching al jazeera. also on the show - a presidential candidate threatens to form his own government if demands are not met. ukraine fighting threatens a ceasefire between kiev and separatist forces. plus... >> i'm in the niger delta. i'll show you what is behind

what is causing nigeria's worst oil crisis in five years. let's kick things off first of all with iraq, where the parliament is expected to convene on monday, to vote for a new inclusive government. the army battles the islamic state group. the military is getting help from the united states, which expanded air strikes against rebels in the north of the country. let's go to john hendren. live in erbil. where is the fighting leaving the standoff between the is, and the iraqi army. well, the attacks around the haditha dam occurred in the last 24 hours or so. the u.s. launched five or six air strikes in the 24 hour period.

they were concerned that the islamic state fighters, who had taken over the up to of haed eetha would take -- haditha would take over the hydroelectric dam. they launched strikes against a command post and vehicles, and some were carrying artillery. they would have been large explosions. the iraqi army is in control of the dam, and they are pressing in on the city of haditha. that is the latest spot where there's a conflict. there are fights in tikrit and to the north around mosul, peshmerga forces say they have closed in on the eased, closing in from two different sides, but they captured high ground around mt zartec. allowing them to see into the valley below, where there are a number of fighters, including in a christian town. mosul is the strong hold of the

islamic state and iraq, and that would be a battle to take a long time. we don't expect that to happen in the city of mosul for days or weeks. the focus is on haed eetha, and whether the -- haditha and whether the air strikes will continue. the u.s. says they were requested by iraqi forces. i wanteder what the reaction is to the president's announcement that he'll unveil a plan for wider military engagement in iraq. >> there's a lot of skepticism about the u.s. role. i read a number of comments from people in iraq saying the u.s. should not get credit for the air strikes, they are largely done by iraqi forces. the air force is engaging in the air strikes, i think there's little doubt that the u.s. popes helped to push the islamic state line back. there's within a string of

victories for iraqi fighters, and that is likely in part credited to the air strikes. the fighting in the you're wan areas, in places like tikrit and mosul, they can only be carried out on a door to door basis, the kind of thing that special forces troops do. people here - i don't think the u.s. is getting a lot of credit. it is getting credit for creating a power vacuum allowing the islamic state to come in. the maliki government is getting a fair amount of credit for favouring shiites and doing little to incorporate sunnis into the government. >> john hendren, thank you for that. fighting near the libyan battle killed 12 people. rival groups have been fighting for control of libya since the fall of muammar gaddafi in 2011. it's creating political

instability, they have two rival parliament. now, the last chance for an agreement. that is what abdullah abdullah is saying about a meeting with afghan rival ashraf ghani. both men ran as candidates in the april presidential vote. abdullah abdullah says it was rigged. now talks on a tentative power-sharing deal appear to be falling apart. jennifer glasse is in kabul. we under the meeting is ongoing. any indication of how it is going? >> well, we learnt in the last couple of minutes that the meeting is over. there has been no conclusive agreement. we know that one of the sticking points between the candidates is what the role of the chief executive will be. that's a new position created after this whole dispute over the election has been going on for three months, that whoever is not declared president will be chief executive, what the

chief would do will be discussed. that has been the sticking point. the two candidates met today. we understand that that meeting is obvious, and christian abbiati supporters said that this would be the last meeting, there had to be a deal, or they would do what they needed to do. it is a critical time with no agreement. we are expecting to hear from dr abdullah abdullah today. >> what happens next. what is it that abdullah abdullah's camp say they'll do what they need to do? >> well, in the past they had threatened to form a parallel government. that was nearly two months ago before the international community helped to broker app agreement between the two men, an entire review of the 8 million votes counted in the second round of elections. it's a critical time. tomorrow is martyr's day, the anniversary of the death of ahmed sharma, the northern

alliance leader. abdullah abdullah was a senior aid and many of his supporters were northern alliance supporters. it could be a critical day. normally people take to the streets to demonstrates. it's a delicate time. if abdullah abdullah supporters decide this is enough, they feel the process is weighted against them. it could mean that afghans come out into the streets. >> no doubt this is a story we'll follow. jennifer glasse there in kabul. >> devastating floods are inundating large parts of pakistan and northern india. the death toll has climbed to more than 160. 450 villagers have been submerged. rescuers are continuing efforts to reach thousands of stranded people. meanwhile, monsoon rains have triggered floods and landslides

in pakistan's punjab province. more than 160 have died. homes have been destroyed, leaving thousands homeless. we are joined from waziristan in punjab province. have the authorities reached all those that are stranded now? >> not sure. villages surrounded by large bodies of water. the relief effort is not underway in full swing. the military is busy until certain people and certain areas. this is a very large scale catastrophe. we are told that thousands of villages in the punjab surrounded by water or submerged under water. we know that many of the cattle or livestock has been lost, because people were not able to

evacuate the animals. most of the people that were evacuated were by private aid organizations such as the fif, which has been at the forefront of relief efforts. the government has been slow, because of the political crisis in islamabad. there are thousands of people waiting for relief supplies to arrive into punjab, which was the worst hit. that will be the next correction. once rescued, thousands homeless and sick, what is happening to them. that is going to be the change, because it appears that despite the fact that pakistan had several major floods like the ones seen now, they are ill-prepared. there is some store from the pakistani government na it is the indians who did not issue a

warning. the rainwater ta accumulated in kashmir swept down to the river, right now we are near the river which is in high flood. just to give you an idea, it is expected that 900,000 cue sticks of water is passing through. there was 400,000 cue sticks. that shows you the emergency. several places in the south are going to be in the line of the water which is now advancing towards the south. >> all right. kamal hyder, thanks you for that. ongoing fighting in eastern ukraine is threatening to derail a ceasefire, there's been shelling in the port city of mariupol.

fighting continues in donetsk. >> reporter: these pictures show the ukraine ceasefire going up in flames. a kilometre from the perimeter of the airport. in district has been in the firing lines for months. caught in the crossfire between the ukranian forces and the separatists surrounding the airport. the deal had some residents believing the worst was over. they were mistaken. >> we were going to pick up our stuff. i have a babe and we life in a dormitory. we wanted to get a push chair. i had a call from my mother and said the house was burning. >> each side blames the other. the separatists, it seems, fired first >> translation: they were standing with the canons. the ukranian army aimed and shot. they were standing here. they shot there and got the

response. the responses went back and forth all day sunday. to the east of the airport we heard fire and bursts from a machine-gun. over to the north-west we heard explosions from rocket fire. this is a ceasefire in paper form only. fanning out from the check points, tanks were bracing on the city limits. they braced for more than this, pounding by forces, a violation of the minsk agreement. nonetheless, the government insists the cease pir is in force. over the last 24 hours, there was not information about civilians. at the moment we are not talking

about a cancellation of the ceasefire agreement. faith in the truce is understandable yea low. >> officials from the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the o.s.c.e. is charged with monitoring the ceasefire. a reminder for everyone in this bitterly contested country that the conflict is not over yet. still ahead, six months on the grief continues, as it seems they are no closer to finding the missing malaysia airlines flight. >> cap touring the coldest places on earth, the award winning photographer shining a spotlight on the face of

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iceland. welcome back, let's recap the headlines. iraq's parliament is expected to convene. the u.s. is expanding air strikes against fighters from the islamic state group. american and the iraqi forces bombed sites near the strategic haditha dam in the western province. afghanistan's two presidential contenders failed to come up with a power-sharing deal.

it was the last chance. they want a new vote. devastating floods are inundating pakistan and northern india, more than 300 have died. homes have been destroyed. leaving thousands homeless. >> 70 people have been killed. government air strikes are backing sunni tribesmen fighting houthi rebels there. protesters are demanding that the government resigns. scenes of chaos in yemen's capital. security forces used tear gas and water canon to disperse the crowd. security forces were given order to open the road that was blocked earlier by the protesters.

they were gathered to warn authorities that their patients were running out. they are demanding fuel prices be cut and the government resign. >> translation: today we sent a warning. if our demand are not met we'll retaliate. we don't buy into what the president says. >> reporter: the president cut fuel prices by 12% and agreed to form a new government, while maintaining full control over the ministry of defense, interior and foreign affairs. the houthis say it's not enough. many buildings are located here. the authorities are ready to take measures to restore order. this crowd is chanting a popular slogan here. death to america, down the jews.

for these people, u.s. and israel are the biggest threat. our problem is the u.s. and the west. they are creating problems to divide us as yemenis, they want us divided to control gas and oil. >> the area is controlled by the houthis, they have their own police force. they set up checkpoint to protect an al qaeda attack inside the protest camp. these yellow armbands and flags are distributed among the s shi'ite community. rallying support. >> the violence of the protest camps has made worse a charged atmosphere. it can undermine efforts under way to find a peaceful solution to the political crisis. >> nigeria is facing its worse oil crisis in years, with the

daly out put plummeting. nigeria had 8 million less in the coffers. the correspondent reports. >> reporter: setting off at the break of down, the men are on a mission in the niger delta, part of a force from various agencies and civilians, tasked with curbing oil theft. an hour into the patrol, they arrest suspects. they order them to reveal the location of air illegal business. they make their way from the open creek into the mangrove. they strike gold. this is where stolen crude is defined, destroying the site and setting it on fire. we have to move back, it's a dangerous business, explosions could happen at any moment, and the fire could extend miles over the water. within seconds the area is engulfed in darkness.

>> this is what they are doing. as you can see, everywhere is smoking. we surrender. despite the efforts, oil nest in nigeria is at its highest levels in five years. the government gave amnesty to call areas. multinational oil giants started to reduce onshore presence. tucked in the forest. we find the men cooking oil. the site had been destroyed before but they came back. >> this is not what we do for a living. this is the only source of wealth that we do. without this we can't survive. on a good day the workers at one end of an organised crime chain can make $200. the poverty of those living

there is there to see. >> the majority of the stolen crew, larger bunkering operations involved transferring the crude to barges, and then it is taken to larger tankers in the o. and from there to buyers and west africa, europe and latin america. >> after the monitoring. the islamic state connected individuals and security. >> those who protected the pipelines, those who ought to have kept the economy can be found in this matter. politicians at the local end. >> despite low level arrests, there has been no serious large-scale prosecutions. the riches will keep burning

away. the african union is holding an emergency meeting in ethiopia's capital to discuss how to fight the ebola outbreak. they have started to ramp up efforts to fight the deadly ebola. they have established checkpoints along borders and checkpoints. ebola killed more than 2,000 since the outbreak began. thousands of families in the philippines are living in makeshift homes, a year after being displaced by fighting. more than 100 were killed when rebels battled the army. as rob mcbride reports, the wait in the camps is brewing dissatisfaction. >> along with thousands of other people. they were moved to temporary accomodation in a sports stadium. one year on, she calls it home.

she, children and grandchildren, a total of 16 people sharing the one small room. i hope we can go back to the home, because it's dirt i, smells and is bad for the grandchildren. >> reporter: it is here that her husband died from an illness she believes was made worse by the conditions. struggling with a lack of sanitation and running water. it was a concern. >> it was a challenge for the displaced population. >> a year ago an attack by a breakaway faction from the more re-moro national -- from the moro liberation front displaced many people. 40,000 remained homeless. the government has been building houses and providing materials. progress is slow. >> the plan is to clear people

from the stadium by the end of this year. the rebuilding of destroyed homes will not be completed until the middle of next year, two years after the fighting that displaced them. >> in badly damaged neighbourhoods, more than nine out of the 10 homes were destroyed. many families were not waiting for government assistance, but have been rebuilding on their own. >> i have been moving around asking my neighbours how the situations are, and they have been telling me until now, we don't have power, we didn't have enough supply of water. >> some nab hour hoods -- neighbourhoods are trying to speed up what has been a long, slow recovery. >> family and friends of those on board the missing malaysia airlines plane met to mark six

months since the traj day. the rely -- tragedy. relatives gathered for sprayers. 239 passengers were on board. the jet was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing, the majority were chinese. the most extensive search filed to find a trace of the boeing 777. adrian brown was at the memorial. >> this is the lemma temple, a -- lemma temple, a place that families come to. it's a time of coming together. for many families, such a reunion is not possible. they are the loved ones of those missing from the malaysian airliner that vanished on march the 8th, six months ago. they came to offer prayers, and to press their demands for more information about the missing airliner. police were here in force, doing

their best to present the families, talking to the foreign media, some alleged that the police were responsible for open hostility. accusing them of beatings. there's reports of one woman spending three days in hospital after a confrontation with police. there's a good deal of bitterness and anger. they have been through the full arc of emotions and today what was visible was the row emotion that was still there. a celebrated photographer has returned home for an important exhibition. ragna, known as rags, spent 30 years document iing landscapes -- documenting landscapes that are rapidly changing in remote places on earth. kim vinnell has the story >> reporter: documenting the lives of those whose world are rapidly changing, and the

unforgiving landscapes they inhabit. this photographer spent the last three decades going back and forth to the coldest places on earth. >> it's horrible when i draw or paint something. my paintings are my photographs. and i wanted to get something. then i just saw what happened, or thinking like this is taken away tore disappearing. i had to talk about that. i had to do it like how a painter would do it. in doing so, he won dozens of award and risked his life. >> in greenland, waiting to capture this hunter, he knew things could go long. he had lost all the bullets. we were on the ice, far away, and no bullets.

and we had to fight back the weather and the ice was cracking. >> the ex exhibition was special. these are his favourites. he had to choose. >> iceland says rex shone a spotlight. >> i think it's great. >> he's one of the best photographers. he's been there for three decades. prays that is difficult for rex to take, as he sees his work as a pressing and a duty. in the case of climate change abroad and at home. >> iceland is something like you have a nose on your face, but you don't see it. it's changing in front of me. a daunting prospect for a man

connected to the region, as he watches and captures it melting away. and if you want to keep up to date with all the news stories, head to aljazeera.com. . hello. i am richard ginsburg. you are at "the listening post" pakistan democracy put to the test. losers by default. argentina, vulture funds and the fight for the narrative. a media tycoon investigated for bribery in hong conleying, pro-democracy.