>> attacks in somalia, being americans are among the casualties. >> hello welcome to al jazeera i'm jane dutton in doha. iraq's parliament may not vote for a new cabinet until tuesday. situation ever stalemate in afghanistan. two sides fail to reach an agreement on a power-sharing agreement. hundreds are dead thousands are stranded by flooding in india

and pakistan. four americans are reportedly among at least 12 people killed after two car bombings southwest of the somali capital. the rebel group, al shabaab, says it'sing responsible. second convoy was attacked minutes later. al jazeera's team recently on location with a joint african yoiunion somali forces. director of the heritage institute in mogadishu, says that the air strike that killed one of its founders last week. >> if confirmed it will certainly be a major development in somalia. it would be about 20 years, you would have to go about 20 years

last time an american was actually killed in combat or something close to combat in somalia. it would have been black hawk down in 1993. it needs to be confirmed first, and if confirmed it will mean that al shabaab has made true its promise to exact revenge. losing its leader al shabaab has made true their ability to attack. under the new leadership, business will be as-usual as was actually promised by the new leader. so i think those are very clear messages. >> there are some serious allegations against african union peace keepers who have been fighting along somalian troops. accused of preying on vublg women and girls. -- vulnerable women and girls. cites incidents of rape, sexual

assault and sexual sploition. e. does not mean the sexual abuse is ride spread. >> we take those allegations seriously and they will be properly investigated and proper measure will be taken. those people if found responsible orfully will be dealt with through the mechanism that we have in place, under the african union zero tolerance policy on misconduct. but i would like to say about the report, we were a little bit suddenly and also very concerned about some of the asset of the report. as you know, we have close to

23,000 uniformed personnel in amazon. and the report went from a small sample that i'm not saying is negligible to make a generalization that does not reflect the way that the majority of our troops have been conducting themselves we have high standards. >> iraq's parliament may wait until tuesday to vote for a government. it's been reported that nouri al-maliki is in the running for vice president. troaivecontroversial candidate for are prime minister, objection to any of the candidates may mean the entire list is discarded. jane arraf is live for us in baghdad. what are you hearing about the whole process, jane? >> reporter: welt, as we

speak -- well as we speak some of the members of parliament, including former prime minister ibrahim al jaffray, are starting to arrive. question is will they take a vote? it doesn't mean if they vote today or tomorrow, but if it goes beyond tomorrow that is beyond the constitutional deadline. they are expected to endorse this cabinet but haven't officially done so, jane. that means the kurdish members can't participate in the vote. that's what we're waiting for. the kurd in theory are on board, but they haven't gotten forward on the vote. >> what does the new government look like and do you think it will make a difference? >> reporter: well, it's an interesting one. it brings together a lot of

political heavy weights who have played a role for good or bad. since 2003 when saddam hussein was toppled. mohamed chalaby, whom we haven't seen in the public role trouble of strurl in the invasion -- instrumental of the invasion of iraq, deputy prime minister and prime minister nouri al-maliki as you mentioned will likely be one of the vice presidents. so a lot of different personalities with quite a bit of power sitting around the table. the sunnies get the defense ministry but the question really is even though they have a new government, how much difference can it really make? and we're going to have to see whether they're able to work together to answer that question. jane. >> thanks a lot, jane arraf in baghdad. islamic state group, air strikes against the rebels in the north have increased and the target areas have widened.

and this is one key area that government doesn't want islamic state fighters to get ahold of, it is the haditha dam. the second larges dam in iraq. if the b islamic state gets hold of this it could control water for the major portion of the country. seven people including two women were killed during the iraqi government's offensive. at least 17 people have been killed in the town of dehulia in a strike of the islamic state fighters. 17 miles north of baghdad. sunni tribe backing the government, towns one of several in that area where the islamic state group has seized control. afghanistan's presidential candidate, abdalla abdalla says talks on forming a unity government have reached a dead

end. presidential election has been gridlocked because of a recount ordered. the election commission is expected to announce results of the second round this week. but abdalla is already rejecting the results and insists he won both rounds. stephanie decker reports. >> a frenzied campaign even before everyone knew how difficult it would turn out. abdalla abdalla presidential candidate number 1 and presidential candidate number 2 ashraf ghani, both insisted they were the best to replace. >> abdalla abdalla won by a narrow margin which meant it had to go to a runoff. that happened in june, this

time, ashraf ghani was the winner. ghani agrees to a recount bit takes almost a month of back and forth on the details of how to proceed. and finally both candidates agree on a process for the vote ordered with the help of the u.s. secretary of state. but it takes time and john kerry rushes to ensure the pressure is on. >> both parties now agreeing that the rules of the road, both parties have agreed to stay at it. both parties have agreed to live by the outcome. >> but an outcome is proving hard to find. and so five months after millions of afghans went to the polls, still no word on who won. stephanie decker, al jazeera,

kabul. widespread audits of the 8 million votes cast in the second round of presidential elections. now he says he's not going to respect the outcome of that audit. he says the audit process has been biased against him. he says 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 uncertainly. afghans were hoping in the coming days to have a new president named. that audit process almost finished. the results were expected in the next week or so with abdalla rejecting that result. it's uncertain what will happen going forward. he did call on his followers to renounce violence especially this week, martyr's week when many people commemorate the northwestern leader, ahmad

massoud. the uncertainly has been difficult for afghanistan. difficult for its economy and its security. not good news for afghans who are hoping to have a new government soon. fight in eastern ukraine threatens an already difficult ceasefire.

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>> you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of the top stories. rebel group al shabaab, al jazeera's team recently on location with the joint african union, somali forces there confirm that u.s. troops are helping with routine military operations. iraq's parliament may delay a vote for a new cabinet until tuesday. there are reports that nouri al-maliki who has already stepped down as prime minister is in the rubbing for vice president. controversial candidate is said to be hadr el mari, with links to iran. presidential election of afghanistan has been gridlocked for months because of recount.

each candidate has accused the other of fraud. flooding inundated pakistan and india. climbed to more than 160. hundreds of villages have been submerged. rescuers are continuing their efforts to reach thousands of stranded people. and in pakistan floosdz have killed at least -- floods have killed at least 205 people. pun jajab province. >> the floods have hit the central part of the punjab, it has also marooned villages which are 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 and alleviate the suffering

of the people. but this is a large calamity and it is not yet over. according to estimates, a very large body of water is going to be passing through river which is in peak flood and that of course will mean endangering many farm lands and villages along the way, all the way down south to multan and daragagikan. the government has been slow in response. however, organizations such as the fif and the military are active. they are trying to save lives and to provide what little care they possibly can. >> in syria rebels say they now control key parts of kunra ata. they now hold a border town which is the base for a syrian army infantry brigade. >> reporter: opposition

fighters say they have made gains, already in the town of napal saka, the home of an infantry brigade. town is a supply route for government force he based in nearby hills not far from the capital damascus. >> in this we see the fourth infantry division. now that the southern country side is under our hand we will continue to control the northern part and what is left from the army's 90th battle i don't know. >> reporter: several golf t government tanks have been destroyed. this commander says his forces have partially controlled roads to the south and to the damascus country side. he says the next goal is to fully control the route leading to the capital but that could prove difficult. elsewhere in syria government jets hit a number of targets. on the eastern distribute of the capital jobar was on the hit

list and so was homs. the syrian affairs controls the skies, a weapon that's problem offing fatal for the -- that's proving fatal for the rebels. >> northern sinai region local media says a police officer has been killed in el arish. ten others are believed to be injured. last week 11 security personnel were killed by a road side bomb in the area. al jazeera is demanding the release much its three journalists retained for 220 days. peter greste, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon has raised the issue with the egyptian president.

you can see freeajstaff website. petro poroshenko is visiting mariupul in the east. government is sending reenforcements to defend the port city. mariupul saw heavy fighting over the weekend, from the government and the are pro-russian separatists. 1200 ar prisoners were returned over the weekend. oil sectors including units of gazprom rasnef and transneft. they will also tighten nurse imposed in july, targeting more individuals with trabl bans and

asset-freezes. russia has already banned knowledge food imports from u.s. canada and norway. air space to western carriers. al jazeera's peter sharp is in moscow with more of that. >> there is no doubt that russia will retaliate proportionally to any sanctions imposed by the eu on monday and tuesday. prime minister medvedev. said as much on monday. in response to that the eu goes ahead and hits them with more sanctions. i think people here feel it's basically unfair and there will be retaliation. possibly even closing russia's

air space to european flights crossing the country. and this says the prime minister could drive many of these airlines into bankruptcy. he warns the west that the sanction he oar double edged sword. >> iran's president hasan rouhani, has visited the ayatollah in the hospital. huge surge of new ebola cases by month's end. the word comes as african leaders hold talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa. border enclosure -- closures have stigmatized affected countries. nigeria is facing its

largest oil crisis in years. nigeria had $8 billion less in its coffers last year. >> reporter: setting off at the break of dawn these men are in a mission oin the niger delta, part of a force drawn from various divisions tasks with curbing oil theft. an hour into their patrol, they arrest suspects. order them to reveal the politicians of their illegal business. they make their way from the open creek into the thick mangrove. they strike gold. this is where stolen crude is refined. they destroy the site and set it on fire. we have to move back. it's a dangerous business. explosions to hatch at any minute and fire could extend miles over the water. within seconds the area is engulfed had darkness.

>> this is where they are doing it, now you consider everywhere smoking. >> despite these efforts, oil theft in nigeria is at its highest levels in five years, since the government gave amnesty to former rebels in the area. the government says $8 billion in revenue were lost to industrial scale theft last year and multinational oil joints are have started to reduce their oil presence here, selling off fields as a result of theft. we find these men cooking oil as it's called here. their site had been destroyed before but they came back. >> there is knock we do for a living. this is our only source of wealth that we do and eat. without this thing we can't survive. >> on a good day these workers at one end of the vast organized crime chain can make $200. the oil pipelines crisscross their community. the poverty of those living

around the source of nigeria's wealth is there to see. the majority of the stolen crude does not get refined here in the niger delta. larger bunkering operation involve transferring the crude to barges, then to barges in the atlantic ocean, and europe, latin america l and as far as asia. >> those have protected the appliance, those that have -- the pipelines, the nigerian economy, as abuja, as are participating in the which is about. >> reporter: despite low level arrests there have been no serious large scale prosecutions no. those are held to account, nigeria's riches will keep burning away. be al jazeera, southern nigeria.

>> al jazeera's investigative team has found boeing workers have serious concerns about the safety of the sphaif 787 dream r aircraft. the 787 dreamliner has been dogged with problems, eventually grounded due to safety concerns last year. will jordan reports. >> this is a boeing factory in the u.s. state of south carolina. workers here in charleston are assembling the company's flagship product, the 787 dreamliner. little faith in the plane they build. >> you fly one? >> no. >> you won't fly in one. would you fly in one of these planes? >> no i wouldn't. >> 15 workers asked randomly, ten said they would not fly on

the dreamliner. >> i wouldn't fly on one of these planes because i see the quality (bleep) around here. >> reporter: annal employee captured the footage after contacting al jazeera to tell us he had serious concerns about what he was seeing. at his request we changed his voice. >> with all the problems reported on the 787 there's 90% that's getting swept away, hushed up. it's an iceberg. >> in another meeting the source told us work eshes are often underskilled uncaring and on some cases on drugs. >> i've seen a lot ever things ashouldn't go on at an airplane plant. people talking about doing drugs, looking for drugs. >> some coke and painkillers, and others. weird, this really -- don't drug test nobody. >> i know they don't.

(inaudible). >> do they? >> over the course of a year, al jazeera's investigative unit has spoken to a number of former boeing engineers and machinists who have little faith in the dreamliner. one shared document in 2010, that showed boeing loosening its own quality requirements. in one memo, schedule may require deviations to boeing's preferred quality process. the company denies it weakens quality control. but the documents launched the former -- alarmed the former president of the union, himself an employee for 32 years. >> they are short changing the engineering process to meet schedule. >> how does that make you feel as a flier? >> yeah, not flying on a 787 but just makes -- because i've been kind of avoiding flying on a

787, seeing this i would definitely avoid flying on a 787. >> boeing notes its memo does not signify authorization to ship parts that don't meet quality requirements. boeing says it drug tests in coorns to company policy. >> the one thing at boeing is to ensure the continued air worriness of an airplane, the integrity of an airplane and the quality of the airplane going out. >> the company denies it compromises safety or quality. will jordan, al jazeera. >> todd curtis is found of of sf.com and said he would fly on a dreamliner. >> one change of the 787 is the pervasive use of composite materials throughout aircraft which change the manufacturing process. boeing in addition had two separate lines in south carolina and in washington state. which meant that they had to

train completely different organizations on different sides of the country and again this led to some complications with the manufacturing process. and there were many problems with getting the kinks in that process ironed out. and it's a process that's ongoing. i wouldn't have any hesitation with flying the dreamliner. in part because i'm very familiar with the process used within boeing for keeping aircraft safe and to bring problems to the forefront so they can be addressed. and more importantly, the carriers around the world who are flying the dreamliner are constantly evaluating that aircraft. constantly reporting to boeing and elsewhere problems that come up and they're being ironed out in service. >> a french trader convicted in one of the history's largest fraud cases is out of jail. jerome kevial is out of jail after receiving five months of a three-year sentence. he is required to wear a tagging

bracelet at all times. he claimed the bank knew what he was doing but turned against him when the deals went bad. can you see that story and other stories logging onto our website at aljazeera.com. finches ja this is techknow, a show about innovations that can change lives. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out our nerds. dr shini somara is an engineer. tonight cars learning to communicate with each other. can cars equipped with electronic smarts reduce accidents and increase safety.