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on the job. so there have been more attacks in the afghan capital kaboul for a second day. a suicide bomber has targeted an army bus. at least three people have died and den others injured. the taliban says it carried out the attack. and another explosive in the afghan capital starring ted a u.s. convoy and kandahar, a car bomb there hit a police convoy. crossing over to kaboul and speaking to jennifer glasse who just got back from the scene of the first attack against the army convoy. jennifer. >> reporter: that's right. the attack this morning was against an army shuttle bus. the thousands of afghans who worked in the afghan army and security forces have transport to work and early this morning on a very, very far outskirts of town it really is a village on the outskirts of the capital

this shuttle bus was targeted the suicide bomber tried to get on board, detonated his bombs and killed three members of the afghan security forces. it's the sixth attack here in kaboul since monday of 17 people have been killed. the taliban saying they are stepping up their attacks because of the new afghan government, that was inaugurated on monday, on tuesday he signed a security agreement with made owe and the united states. mean that go international forces will stay here until 2016. the taliban say that that really means that there will be no peace talks with this new government and they will step up attacks against afghan security forces and western forces. because they call them occupying forces. >> so as you are saying, jennifer, the president's first week on the job, how does he plan to boost the afghan security forces? >> reporter: well, he held a meeting here in kaboul yesterday with senior officials in kaboul including the chief police of the capital trying get a plan

together to stop the attacks. there have been a number since he was inaugurated here on monday. there already is a ring of steal around the city. there are police checkpoints everywhere. there has been increased police on the streets this week with the inauguration and with all the dignitaries in town, but the attack this morning, for example, was well outside the center of the city in a very, very small rural part of the city. and very clearly targeting those afghan security forces on their way to work. so it's very difficult in a city this big to thwart every attack and the attacks that we have seen have been magnetic bombs, attacking a convoy this morning, no casualties there. that was in the center of the city. or single suicide bombers. the security force on his high alert here trying to thwart any further air tacks by the cal ban. >> all right, jennifer, thank you. jennifer glasse reporting from kaboul in afghanistan. isil has made territory the gains in the north of syria but it's now being confronted by kurdish fighters.

this video you are looking at is said to show kurdish is forces attacking isil in a village. that village is close to the down of kobani, a bong the border with turkey. which has been under siege for more than two weeks. the turkish president you wanten has given its clearish indication yet that they will be fighting isil. they are on the border with syria, bernard smith reports from turkey which is rather just across the border from kobane in syria. >> reporter: turkeys military is a few hundred feet what i from isil fighters in some places all that separates is them it barbed wire so far the tubs have just watched as the isil advance as

cross syria. as refugees continue to arrive, turkey has been accused by its nato allies of ignoring the foreign fighters crossing the other way. but speaking to the opening session of turkey's parliament the president said his country was committed to tackling terrorism. >> translator: no terrorist group, whether in turkey or elsewhere, will receive any sympathy from us. their presence is unacceptable. turkey is not a country that will allow itself to be used for temporary transition. >> reporter: turkey's government knows isil is a threat. its hesitation about joining the u.s.-led campaign against the armed group is partly because 46 turks were being held hostage in iraq. they are now free. but turkey is still worried about the risk the retaliation from isis sleeper cells that might be in turkey. it's also worried about army the kurds to fight in syria. turkey fought its own long still unresolved armed conflict with

the kurds and then there is the risk that taking part in a campaign to push back isis in syria, may inadvertently help president bashar al-assad. erdogan told his audience that turkey isn't just in a fight against isil. >> translator: one of turkey's priorities is to have a strong and just government in damascus. we cannot be indecisive about the situation in the gulf and the larger middle east. how can we remain uninterested given the crisis on two fronts on our barredders. we will not sit idle. >> reporter: on thursday, turkey's parliament will likely approve motions allowing turkish force to his join the fight against isil in turkey and iraq. also allowing foreign force to his use its bases. that means the possibility of u.s. jets taking off for iraq and syria from an air base in southern turk i bernard smith, aal jazerra on the turkey syria

border. a top thine ease official is reportedly heading to hong kong as beijing warns that mass protests in the territory are illegal. activists are threatening to storm government buildings over the next few hours that's if the chief executive doesn't quit. hundreds of policemen are cordoning off his office. while thousands remain camped out on the streets as you can see. demonstrators are angry at china's decision to only allow beijing-approved candidates to run in upcoming ejections. diego poll sen joinin -- did i t pollen is joining us from hong kong. tell us what going on there and whether the protesters have gathered enemas. >> reporter: this is the scene you were shrieking the protest is coming and gathering outside the chief executive's office. for the first time what we are seeing is a police barricade and

protesters right across the barricade. this is the first time we have seen this since the police checked down on sunday that was heavily criticized. there is a faction of the student protesters who say that they want to storm government buildings or protest in front of government buildings and blockade them. there is also another faction who says that while they continue their peaceful sit in, there are also protesters who are in the financial district as we have seen in the past few days sitting there, continuing their protests over there. now, there are many questions about whether this could split the protesters, but for the moment, a lot of protests right now is on the government building behind me. >> divya, so if the protesters do go ahead and occupy government headquarters, is that then a red line for the authorities in hong kong? >> reporter: well, that is the big question.

basically, yes. not only will it disrupt many civil activities, many of the government's normally dave daily life activities for the citizens of hong kong it could drop support to the citizens even though they haven't shown up for the protests they have been largely supportive of the protests because they all want the same outcome but it could anger beijing's government because they are crossing a line. this is not just protests inconvenience citizens sitting on the streets and blocking roads, this is now a direct threat or a direct message to the government. >> all right, divya, thank you. divya reporting for us from hong kong just outside the chief executive's headquarters. let's stay in hong kong, in fact and, bring in michael davis he's a professor of law at the university of hong kong. so our reporter, michael, giving us a sense of what is going on in hong kong and specifically outside the chief executive's headquarters. what are his options right now

in. >> well, obviously they are threatening him with -- that he has to resign. no one really expect that he will resign. he will resign if beijing tells him to. and the last time achieve executive got in this kind of trouble, was the first chief he caexecutive was with the first demonstration over article 23. and he did resign because beijing macon clued that this chief executive is not handling situation well. but typically they wait a year or something. so this is not going to satisfy the protesters. so then the question is, what are they going do? >> so what do you think is going to happen next then? >> well, what i suspect is they are going to be out there, but unless they are going to charge the policemen or lock doors, because today is actually a holiday there, if they are not -- unless they are going to do that, then i guess they are just going to stands there and face each other off. if, on the other hand, they do

try to force themselves in in some way, then, of course, i think the police will try to arrest them. the problem that we are having here is that a lot of people want this movement to be nonviolent. and so by making this choice to go after the -- and try to enter forcefully in to government offices, then that would call in to question the nonviolence. and, of course, then also risk losing the support of a lot of hong kong people. so this is a dilemma that they face and it's somewhat of a split between the protesters over this. >> and for beijing, michael, what does it do next? i mean, there have been comments from the foreign minister calling the protests illegal, sending a message also to the international community not to medal in china's affairs of and we also understand that china has decided to ban organized tour groups going to hong kong, so potentially hitting hong kong's economy even more. what are china's options right

now? >> well, i think banning the tour group is his mostly so they don't come and see what's happening in hong kong. rather than some kind of financial punishment or something. so, well, really it seems to me the only player that's movable at this moment is the hong kong government. china, of course, isn't going to want to be seen just simply to back down in the face of protests, so if anyone is going to explore some way to climb down from the conflict it would have to be the hong kong government and they seem to be sitting on their hands. the problem over the years is the hong kong government has no habit of representing hong kong to beijing, they tend to merely reflect beijing's wishes to hong kong. this is what's angering hong kong people they don't have a government that represents them. so what i would expect and the pressure on this chief executive to resign and all of that. is he's not going to put pressure hong kong. i think these protests are more a competition between the hong

kong government and the protesters for the hearts and minds of hong kong people. that's what's going on here, later they can see whether there is some interception that they can move beijing, but at this point, i think their goal most protesters that i have talked to, don't believe beijing going to back down. so their goal, i think, really is more local here. and hopefully beijing will have the sense to stay out of it. beijing has made the error of taking too much control of hong kong. if jay jinx owns the hong kong problem then beijing becomes a target. they are better off to stay back and stay out of the way. >> all right, michael, thank you very much for joining us from hong kong, that's michael davis speaking to us. still to come on al jazerra, victims twice over. why abused children in japan are now growing up without any love and affection. plus. >> reporter: i am pan i can't paige reporting from south africa on how the elephant's amazing sense of smell could one day be used to save lives. es.

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the top stories on al jazerra at least three people have been killed in an attack in the afghan capital kabul. for a second day suicide bomber targeted an army bus. the taliban says it carried out that attack. the turkish president erdogan has given his clearest indication yet that turkey will be taking military action against isil. the group has advanced to within turkish sights of the border. i've top chinese official is

heading to hong kong as jay wing warns that mass frosts in the territory are illegal. protesters have threaten today storm government buildings if the chief executive doesn't quit. gulf arab states have demanded the respiration of government authority in yemen. issuing a thinly veiled criticism of rebels with tie to his iran. houthi rebels captured an army base in the capital. members of the chicago a minority group are now facing protests even though they have gained some ground in the city. mohamed reports. >> reporter: the sixth military zone in northern city lie in ruins. this is the only army base that put up a fight to defend the yemen capital. after weeks it is surrendered. it's field commander left and the houthis took over the site. over 200 boyds were found in the rubble in and around the place.

the shia fighters took dozens of tanks and artillery from the base and moved them to the northern strong hold of is dar, but the houthis deny this. the commander of the form i or herred division took all of the weapons with him when he retreated and gave them to the extremists and al qaeda where almost all of them. we have the remaining weapons and plan to hand them over to the military and the police. >> reporter: residents in the area seem to be happy with their presence here. but others are not. and they are starting to make their voice heard. this was the second time since the houthi take over that activists tried to stage a protest. their number is small but they say their message is important. >> translator: this is just the beginning. now we have started this. the millions who revolted begin

with 20 people once again brought down the wall of fear, this protest will snowball and get big he every day. >> reporter: and this is another protest about accusations of looting by the houthis who have stormed places and looting compounds of their opponents. but what these people say they couldn't accept was the chicago a gunmen storming charity that his care for well, orphans and the poor. the solidarity fountain indication is one such organization. it's mainly fee mill staff resist today a week before they broke in the gates and looted the building. the position to houthi actions have begun to spread in other parts of yemen. such as in this area here 100-kilometers south of sauna. unless they reverse their course of action. al jazerra. syria has seen one of the deadliest months since the war started in 2011. the conflict has now claimed

180,000 lives. right groups say 2,275 people were killed in september and the syrian observatory for human rights says 1,107 of these were civilians and killed by government forces and that if you go includes 294 children and 173 women. two suicide bombs in syria killed at least 39 people outside a school in h off. homs it happens where most of the residents are alawites. and that's a second to which bashar al-assad belongs. benjamin netanyahu has met with president barack obama at the white house he should took the opportunity to applaud strikes targeting the islamic state. and urged them to take a tougher effort against iran. >> we fully support your effort to defeat isis. we think everybody should

support this. and even more critical is our shared goal of preventing iran from becoming a military mike nuclear power. >> the meeting was the first between the two leaders since the conflict in gaza. obama encouraged netanyahu to find sustainable peace between palestinians and israelis. >> i think we also recognize that before we have to find ways to change the status quo so that both israeli citizens are safe in their own homes, and school children in their schools from the possibility of rocket fire, but also that we don't have the tragedy of palestinian children being killed as well. and the u.s. has also called riisrael's decision to build hos in the occupied jerusalem troubling of the white house says it will poises unthe air with the arab countries and the

state department says the move as i just said in fact will poison the atmosphere let's listen in. >> this development will only draw condemnation from the internationallal community. distance israel from even its closest allies, poison the atmosphere not only with the palestinians but the arab governments with which prime minister natural an yahoo said he wanted to build relations. ahead of the secretary service for the u.s. has resigned. after a security of security breaches surrounding the president. a day earlier pierson took fool responsibilities for the failings. more from washington d c. >> reporter: an utter lack of surprise here in washington julia pierson's resignation first the congressional testimony on tuesday that appeared to satisfy no one. then the reports that president obama had traveled in an elevator when he visited the centers for disease control in atlanta last month and was allowed to be in an elevator with an armed man with a criminal record. not only that, though, but the

white house didn't even though that had been the case until the story was about to break in the washington post on tuesday even. there are also the new bits of information we have been getting about just how far that intruder got in to the white house last month. contradicting the accounts from the secret serv service itself pierson is gone and will be replace ed by former agent who stepped down in 2011. much talk now about reform. but pierson had been brought in to reform the secret service after a string of scandals including one involving secret service agents having drunken parties and procuring porosity constitutes while abroad while supposedly protecting members of the government. two investigations have been announced much talk of reform, but we have heard that before. parents in dallas and texas have started pulling their children out of school after the governor said that school children may have been exposed to ebola. health workers are monitoring 18 people, including five students.

and they all came in to contact with the first man who has tested positive for ebola while in the united states. pope francis has urged europe to open its doors to refugees. the head of the roman catholic church made the comments as he met from las with survivors. italy is a prime target fa sigh lum seekers as the head of the u.n. explains. >> so since the beginning of the year, at least 160,000 people, probably 165,000 persons have crossed the mediterranean to look for protection in europe. most of them big part of them. are refugees persons coming from countries either in conflict or where human rights are violated.

never persecuted and suffer violence. the comfort of a normal home life remains a dream for 10s of thousands of children in japan. they live in places meant to be a sank ware foy children rescued from abuse. but rights activists say children who grow up in these facilities are neglected and ill prepared for adult life. drew ambrose has more from osaka. >> reporter: growing up his mother abused and starved him. the 14-year-old now lives in a government institution. 33,000 children end up in places like this across japan. but he says he would rather go home. >> translator: i feel this way because of how people look at you. you are in an institution. i should be with my mother. that's what family is about. yes, there was abuse and violence but my relationship with her will only get worse if i stay here.

staff aren't my parents. they are here because it's their job. >> reporter: the director of the institution condition seeds many of these child nursing homes are under staffed and the pay is too low to attract quality workers. >> translator: currently it's six children to one staff member. but it should be at least four to one. staff get tired. and offer quit their jobs. i think it's our biggest weakness. the system is failing. >> reporter: in the united states, and other developed countries most children who are abused or neglected are place the in foster homes, but here in japan over 85% of troubled children are put in to government-run-ins tuneses. according to this recent report by rue man rights watch. some are babies just six months old and stay here for five years on average. the u.n. says living in institutions delays a child's social development. the provincial government

officials insist they are trying to find alternatives. >> translator: we have doubled our foster care numbers in the past five years. however, foster care is not understood widely. it's confused with adoption. biological parents think they are losing their parent rights. >> reporter: very few children from these i think tunings get adopted or placed in foster care and many struggle with life on the outside and get lost in a system that should protect them. drew ambrose, al jazerra, osaka. well, you can watch that program in full about the neglect of japan's most vulnerable children 101 east broadcasts right here on al jazerra on thursday at 2230 gmt. and you can also get a chance to catch it on friday, saturday, and sunday as well. u.s. mill tarl i scientists are in south africa to see if elephants can help them did he detective explosives, elephants

are 14 more time sensitive to smells than dogs, tanya paige has the details. >> reporter: elephants can find water underground and sense electricity. they have long memories and they have an extraordinary sense of smell. far more sensitive than a dog's. that's why steven lee is here. he is the u.s. military's chief science officer. it's his job to seek out solutions to combat related questions from nature, shawn thinks he can help with the study he's running at this south african wildlife park. inside one of these buck sets a small amount of explosives. the bull will signal when he's found it. >> good boy. >> attaboy. good boy. at boy. >> well done. >> reporter: lee believes that he can design a machine to replicate the elephants trunk that could save lives. >> for the soldier, you can see explosive detectors being designed. chemical agent detectors being designs. biological detectors being

designed and those types of technologies can go over in to the can commercial market for the medical environment sensing if people are sick, sensing toxic industrial wastes and those type things, monitoring the environment. >> reporter: it's a proud day for him who says the elephant's sense of smell is 14 times more powerful than a dog's. other area where the elephants excel over the dogs is in memory. so while dogs might need to be trained once a week, in a test like this, these elephants haven't done this for a year and they are getting it right every time. elephants run in his blood. their father rory was the first to recognize their talents. >> the original idea came from when dad was followed by a heard of wild elephants in zimbabwe. he had been observing them and they picked up his sen scent and started to track him. dat came back home and trained an elephant to follow human scent and to use them to try to stop poaching in the valley.

>> reporter: it took millennia for elephants for involve but with new luck the u.s.' chief scientist says within 30 years he could have a machine based on their unique trunk and it's a talents. tanya paige, al jazerra, south africa. much more news on you are our website at aljazerra.com. you. >> ebola is here. this time not in the bloodstream of a doctor rushed back after helping the stricken in west africa, but hitching a ride with a liberian headed to texas. that's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez.