>> two attacks in somalia. many americans killed, and americans are pleased to be among the casualties. >> hello and welcome to al jazeera. i'm jane dutton. welcome to the program. iraq's parliament may not vote on a new cabinet until tomorrow. and a political stalemate in afghanistan as two presidential candidates fail to reach an agreement on power-sharing government. the boeing dreamliner gets a

failing grade for safety, and al jazeera's investigation takes a look at why 73. >> four americans are reportedly among 15 people killed after two car bombings southwest of the somali capitol. the rebel group sal shah babb said its behind the explosions. a car packed explosives ran a convoy of africaen troops. a second convoy was attacked and 15 people are reported dead. al jazeera's team recently on occasion with a recent convoy there. africa union peace-keeping troops in somalia are being accused of preying on vulnerable women and girls.

a new human rights report has detailed offense and cites rape, sexual assaults in the capitol of mogadishu. while they take the allegation seriously, a few reports does not mean that it is widespread. >> the african union take those reports very seriously, and they will be properly investigated and proper measure will be taken, and those people, if found responsible will be held accountable for misconduct. we are a little bit sudden and very concerned about some of the

asset of the report. as you know we have close to 23,000 uniformed personnel, and the reports went from small sample that i'm not say something generaliblsaying is negligible, to the way the troops have been conducting themselves. >> let's talk about these two developments. with the director of the heritage institute. he joins me live from there. talk me through these targets, the al-shabaab targets. is this the new leader showing his muscle, giving his message. >> business spite losing their leader a week ago, their ability to wage attacks remains

undiminished. under the new leadership business will be as usual as promised by the new leaders. i think those are very clear messages. >> what's going to stop this? it's interesting from this report that american troops have been targeted, and we're finding out there are quite a few of them there. >> well, if confirmed it will will be a major development in somalia. i think it would be 20 years you would have to go back 20 years last time an american was actually killed in bomb bat or something close to combat. it would have been blackhawks down in 1993. it needs to be confirmed first, and if confirmed it will mean that al-shabaab has made true it's revenge in the killing of its leader a week ago. >> let's talk about the

allegations against women and girls, not the allegations made but conducted by the africa union troops. what are you hearing about that, and how widespread do you think it is. >> well again that's very serious allegations from a fairly credible organization human rights watch. they will take measures against people accused of rape and other exploitation of young somali girls. this is not only a problem of rape, but it's a serious political issue. if these reports are credible, and found to be as human rights watch are ledging it could be a huge set back because much of its credibility hinges on the public. if they're seen raping young girls or somali women it will

hit their reputation in somalia. >> thank you very much. afghanistan presidential candidates say talks have reached a dead-end. they have been gridlocked for months after abdullah an doll la and his rival ashraf gandhi claim fraud. >> a frenzied campaign before anyone knew how complicated it would turn out. enter abdullah abdullah presidential candidate number one. and presidential candidate number two, ashraf gandhi both insist they were the best man to replace mohamme hamid karzai. abdullah abdullah won by a

narrow margin, which meant it had to go to a run off. that happened in june. this time it was ashraf gandhi to take the lead. >> he agrees to a recount, but it takes almost a month of back and forth on the details of how to proceed. and finally both candidates agree on a process of the vote audit with the help of the secretary of state. it takes time and john kerry returns to assure that the pressure is on. >> both parties agree to the rules of the road. both parties have agreed to stay at it. both parties have agreed to live by the outcome. >> but in an outcome is proving hard to find, and so five months after millions of afghans went to the polls there is still no agreement on who will run afghanistan. stephanie decker, al jazeera. >> jennifer glasse has more from

kabul. >> abdullah abdullah said he rejects the results of the election. he has claimed all along that the process has been weighted against him. it was those initial objections two months ago that triggered the widespread audit of the votes cast in the second round of the presidential election. now he said he's not going to respect the outcome of that a syd. he said he's acting in the interest of the people that he won the election fair and square, but the process is not working in his favor. this throws an already difficult political situation into more uncertainty. afghans were opening in the coming days to have a new president named and results were expected in the next week or so with abdullah rejecting that result it's uncertain what will happen going forward. did he call on his followers to renounce violence especially this week, martyr's week, when

many people celebrate the death of those killed. the uncertainty has been devastating. difficult for its economy. difficult for the uncertainty the and the fact that it could continue. they hope to have a new president soon. >> bringing political stability to the country but kurdish leaders have not decided whether or not to be part of it. it has been reported that nouri al-maliki, who stepped down as prime minister, is in the running as vice president. the candidate for interior prime minister is reported to have links to iran, but objections to the candidates means the entire list is discarded.

talk us through this list, jane, and the delay. >> well, the delay, a lot of concerns. the sunnies have a lot of concerns. we're told that the kurdish leadership has gone into a second round of talks. the first included an u.s. envoy and u.n. monitors. they say they will ratify the deal and go need along with the government. this is billed as a last chance government. the last chance to get kurds on board. and the last chance to persuade the sunnies that this could work. in terms of the government make up, jane, we're seeing some faces we haven't seen in a whi while. housing minister, and prime minister of 2005 comes back as foreign minister. foreign minister for the life of

iraq becomes deputy prime minister. and as formal can i, he is, indeed, expected to be vice president. >> jane, a lot relies on the fact that it has to be all inclusive, doesn't it. >> well, that's such a nice word and no one is quite sure what it should mean. it basically means that everybody wants what they want, and hopefully this government will fulfill some of the conditions any way. >> jane, let's leave you there and stay with the story there as iraq continues its operation against the islamic state group with the help of the united states. the airstrikes against rebels in the north have widened. this is one key area that the government does not want the islamic state group to go ahead ahold of, the had , the haditha

dam. am in kirkuk 14 people are said to be killed in the south of the province. on saturday seven people including two women were killed during the iraqi government ace offensive. at least 17 people have been killed in the town in an attack by islamic state fighters. it's about 70 kilometers north of baghdad. the bomb exploded a vehicle near the sunni government and an area where they look to seize control. threaten an already from fragile cease-fire. and more on the floods in india and pakistan.

>> watching al jazeera. our top stories, the rebel group al-shabaab say four americans are among the 15 people killed after two car bombings near the somali capitol. al jazeera's team recently on location at the africa union summit there confirm that the troops are helping with routine operations. iraq's vote for a new cabinet is on hold until tuesday. nouri al-maliki is in the running for vice president. one of the leaders is reported to have links to iran.

talks forming a unity government has come to a dead-end. it has been in locks for months accusing each other of fraud. al jazeera's investigative team has found boeing workers who have serious concerns about the safety of the 787 dreamliner aircraft. retired mechanics told al jazeera about their worries about quality control. the 787 dreamliner has been dogged with problems since being unveiled in 2003 and being grounded due to safety concerns last year. >> reporter: this is a boeing factory in the u.s. state of south carolina. the project is the 787 dreamliner, but some put little faith into the plane they build.

>> would you fly in one? >> no. >> would you fly in one of these planes? >> no, not really. >> of 15 workers asked randomly, 10 said they would not fly on the dreamliner. an employee told us he had concerns about what he was saying. at his request we changed his voice. >> with all the problems reported on the 787, 90% is getting swept away, hushed up. it's an iceberg. >> in another meeting the source told us that workers are often under skilled, uncaring, and in some cases on drugs. >> i've seen things that should not go on in an airplane plant. people are talking about drugs,

looking for drugs. >> it's all cook and painkillers. there are people who will go out and work. >> during the course of the year al jazeera's investigative unit has spoken with a number of former boeing engineers and machinists who have little faith in the dreamliner. one shared documents from 2010, which he said showed boeing loosening its own quality requirements. in one memo scheduled deviations to bow yeses preferred quality process. the company denies that it has weakened quality control but the document controls the president of the engineering union, easy an engineer for 3 engine--herself an engineer for

32 years. >> they're not allowing them to complete their job. >> what does that make you feel like flying? >> yes, i'm not flying on the 787. i would definitely avoid flying on the 787. >> boeing notes its memo does not signify to ship parts that don't meet required process. >> the number one focus we have at boeing is insuring that the continued saf safety and air worthiness of the plane and the product going out. >> it denies it lowered safety or requirements. >> we'll have the investigation

right here on wednesday, 20 gmt. you can find more on www.aljazeera.com/boeing 787. planes that will hold 11 more passengers than earlier 737s. the move is part of the airline's push to increase passenger numbers by 50% in the next ten years. ukraine's president petro shown co-ipetro poroshenko is visiting ukraine's east. despitporoshenko said the separatists have handed back 1,200 prisoners of war under the terms of the cease-fire agreement. the european union is pressing ahead with new sanctions against rush. they're coming due to target on

monday. including units of that will make more difficult for russian firms to raise money from western markets. they'll tighten measures imposed in july targeting more individuals with travel bans and asset freezes. russia has banned food items from the e.u. u.s. and norway, and will respond to sanctions that might cut off its air space to western carriers. peter sharp is in moscow with more. >> reporter: well, there is no doubt that russia will retaliate proportionately to any sanctions introduced by the e.u. on monday and tuesday. prime minister said as much over the weekend. i think there is a feeling amongst many russians that i spoke to over the weekend that really the country is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't.

it has brokered successfully a cease-fire that is not perfect but is holding. in response to that the e.u. goes head and hits them with more sanctions. i feel like ththe people feel like it is unfair. especially closing russian air space to european flights crossing the country. this said the prime minister could drive many of these airlines into bankruptcy. he warned the west that the sanctions are a double edged sword. >> devastating fluids inundated large parts of pakistan in northern india. the number of people killed in kashmir has climbed to more than 160. hundreds of villages have been submerged. rescuers are continuing their efforts to reach thousands of stranded people. in pakistan floods have killed 205 people, punjab province is the hardest hit. thousands are been left

homeless. we go to the punjab province. >> reporter: the flood has hit the largest part of the punjab, it has marooned villages which is surrounded by large bodies of water. there is no escape except by boat. the government and the aid agencies are trying to provide as much relief as they can to try to alleviate the suffering of the people, but this is a large calamity, and it is not over. according to estimates a very large body of water is going to be passing through the river, which is in peak flood which endangers farmlands and villages along the way the emergency the not yet over. the government has been slow in response, however, organizations such as the fif and the military

are active. they're trying to save lives and to provide what little care they possibly can. >> the africa union said the largest ebola outbreak in history is having a crippling effect on virus-stricken countries. holding emergency talks in the capitol. the regional block is concerned about the safety of healthcare workers. the a. usaid that efforts to stostart border bans have negatively effected countries. the virus has a fatality rate of around 50%. the south african health ministers in hong kong trying to boost tourism in the country amid ebola fears.

>> a french trader convicted in one of the history's largest fraud cases is out of jail. he was released on bail after serving about five months of a three-year sentence. he is required now to wear an electronic tagging brace let at all times. he cost the french bank $6 million in 2008. he claims the bank knew what he was doing and turned against him when the deal turned bad. >> for the first time an opinion poll has put the yes campaign in front prompting an alarm among some british politicians. >> at this point there is no mistaking what you could only call panic inside westminster or inside the notes in the

campaign. there are crisis meets going on with all the three main parties trying to work out exactly what they can do to try to stem this you have to say frankly a lot of this is only their fault because so many months quite smugly they were saying that the campaign was so far ahead that the scots would be crazy to try to pound. they wouldn't have the pound. they wouldn't be able to join the european union. that has turned out to be a given. over the course into september the trajectory has gone gradually up until the first poll on sunday with yes at 59% and no at 41%. what was seen as a blip is now seen as a trend now. they're talking about things like a constitutional crisis.

the prime minister david cameron could potentially have to resign and what the rest of u.k.'s relationship is with the european union, all of these things are terrifying prospects for the westminster political elite. even if almost 50% of scots are voting to leave what is supposed to be one of the wealthiest and most successful countries in the world, it does raise a question about the level of democracy that westminster offers to the scots. >> one of iceland's most celebrated photographers have returned home for one of his most important exhibition yet. he has spent 30 years documenting landscapes that are rapidly changing the most remote places on earth. >> reporter: documenting the lives of those whose world is

rapidly changing and the unforgiving landscapes that they inhabit. icelandic photographer has spent the last three decades going back and forth to the coldest places on earth. >> i can't paint. it's horrible. when i draw something or paint something, my paintings are my photographs. i wanted to get something and then i just saw what was happening, thinking like this is fading away, it's disappearing. i have to document that. i have to do it in a way, how would a painter do it? >> in doing so, he has won dozens of awards and at times risked his life. in green land waiting to catch this hunt mid kill knew things could quickly go wrong. >> he had lost all his bullets, so we were there on the ice, far away, and with no bullets, and

wilderness all around us. we had to fight back the weather, and the ice was cracking. >> this exhibition is particularly special to rex. staying in a relatively small space he had to choose the images very carefully. these, he says, are his favorites. >> icelanders themselves say rex has ha helped to shine a spotlight on their country. >> the pictures are amazing. >> they're amazing. >> he's one of our best photographers, and he has been, like, three decades. >> praise that is difficult for rex to take as he sees his work as both a blessing and a duty in the face of climate change abroad and at home. >> iceland is something like, you have a nose on your face, but you don't see it unless you look in a mirror. i see it more in other countries than here. but it's changing in front of me. >> a daunting prospect for a man

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