>> so godeski will be back every day he can. >> the apparent beheading of a british aid working by i.s.i.l. draws international condemnation. british prime minister david cameron says he will do everything he can do hunt down those responsible. from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. here is what is ahead - syria warns turkey about intervening in its civil war as fighting inches closer to the border. live to hong kong where any hope of talks to resolve street protests is fading. plus, making films in

zimbabwe, how the industry is going from strength to strength. world leaders have condemned the killing of another hostage held by the islamic state of iraq and levant. the group has released a video showing the beheading of alan henning, a british volunteer captured while delivering aid to syria in december. emma haywood reports. >> reporter: alan henning had no ties with syria, only a deep desire to help those in need. the married father of two travelled there last december as part of a british aid convoy, and had aid for syria tattooed on his arm. after the convoy crossed the border he was seized. earlier this week his wife made a desperate plea for his release. echoing all those calls that this gone before.

>> we need him back home. >> it appears to have been ignored. in a statement the british prime minister said: he goes on to say: alan henning's story touched the lives of many people. pleas for his release were universal. more than 100 muslim leaders in u.k. urged i.s.i.l. to immediately release him. i.s.i.l.'s armed campaign in iraq and syria, and the killing of another british hostage, david haines, prompted britain to take a bigger role in the international coalition against the group. >> there are no british troops on the ground, but the u.k. has been carrying out air attacks on i.s.i.l.

in a video claiming to show alan henning's death, his blood is on the hands of a british parliament. and snore hostage, an -- and another hostage, an american man, has been taken hostage. >> our hearts go tout to an aid worker in the video and remaining hostages and families. this is another clear example of the group, and why the president has articulated and moving out to degrade and destroy i.s.i.l. >> alan was taken while driving an ambulance packed with food and water, and has been described by many as a hero. >> canada is the latest country to allow the joining of the u.s.-led campaign against yil

are. stephen harper says his country will send jets, but will not include boots on the ground. kurdish peshawar in the north are continuing to fight i.s.i.l. thousands fled their villages, and are pouring into other cities. our correspondent joins us from there now. monica, what is the situation in erbil for all the people coming. how are they marking eid there? >> well, the situation for them is really pretty sad. let me tell you where i am. there's 250 families at the refugee camp near erbil. this is the first eid without their families, away from home. for most of the people who are iraqis, and internally displaced. they had to flee their towns and cities, back in june and august when i.s.i.l. carried out both

its advances. a woman told me she never thought she'd have to spend the religious holiday with nothing to give her children. a lot said they have received meat, lamb, from charities, but it's a sat situation and a sad reminder of their lives, because the thought is sinking into many of them that they'll have to stay for a while. they cannot go back to the territory that i.s.i.l. is in now. >> what do they hope will happen here? >> they want to go back. they don't like the status of being internally displaced people. they want to go home and see if their homes and belongings are there. it's a difficult situation. i.s.i.l. has a strong presence in the areas. militarily they have not been defeated.

they are traumatized to go back and see the down occupied by i.s.i.l. >> thank you, monica, joining us from erbil. now, the syrian national coalition is warning of a genocide in kobani as i.s.i.l. closes in. kurdish fighters are trying to stop the town falling from i.s.i.l. bernard smith reports. >> reporter: with tanks taken from the iraqi army, fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant intensified the shelling of kobani on friday. the town on syria's border with turkey is being defended by a few thousand syrian kurdish fighters. shoot the tanks. one commander tells her fighters. the men and women are unlikely to hold the town without outside help. >> we wouldn't want kobani to fall. we welcome the brothers who come from kobani, and will do what we

can. >> there's no indication that turkey's military is about to get involved in the battle. it could, if it wanted to. there's domestic legislation allowing turkey to fight terrorism in syria and iraq. for now, kirky is a refuge for kobani's residence. >> nobody can feel what we are feeling. only people being oppressed know how we feel. the town is being served. turkey, the international communities - no one is doing anything. >> kurdish fighters have been given weapons, but say they need reinforce lds. >> there's a handful of u.s. air strikes, enough to keep i.s.i.l. at bay. but judging by the proximity of

fighting towards the town now, it will be difficult to stop kobani falling to i.s.i.l. with air strikes alone. student protest leaders in hong kong called off talks with the government, following violent scuffles on friday night between protesters and locals. 19 people have been arrested connection with the clashes. >> let's take a look at where the contesters are gathering. they are in the distribute off cause way bay. they are sitting near the government headquarters, in the admiralty area, blocking roads in central district. they are over the water on the peninsula in the mon cock area. adrian brown is in non-cock. what is the atmosphere like after the scuffles on friday night?

>> well, like the weather, the skirmishes have been sporadic. this is the main site where we have seen some of the worst violence since saturday, there has been clashes between the groups that support the student and those that don't support what the students are doing. today the confrontations are verbal. last night physical. a number of people were injured. the mood today is a little calmer, but the squirmishes ebb and flow. most of the violence happens in the evening. the area is tense. what you do notice is there aren't that many police on the ground. the area remains very tense, but around this protest site the shops are still open, and people are going about their business in the normal way. the secretary of security for hong kong has gip a media -- given a media briefing to reply

to some phenomenal charms that the protesters colluded in a campaign to intimidate the students. he denied that and said the prove of that is that the police arrested eight suspected tribe members. the triadds are a criminal group that operate in the area, controlling the massage pal ours, gambling and prostitution. no way do they have a connection with happened last night. >> i gather hong kong left them 30,000 police. how are they coping with protests in these many different locations around the city. and thousands of protesters on the streets? >> well good point. that 30,000 figure includes auxiliaries of several thousand. at the moment police can contain what is happening here, in admiralty and cause way bay.

the danger would be if the protests were to spread on a larger scale. you have to remember that the hong kong police force is one of the best trained and equipped. they number under 30,000. the army of the p l.a. carried a front page editorial pointing out that the 6,000 troops trying to house garrison in hong kong is loyal to the party. that is a veiled threat to investors here. >> that is our correspondent adrian brown joining us from honk copping. >> more from -- hong kong. >> more from to come. somalia forces fighting al-shabab. plus date day. >> i'm andrew thomas, inside australia's newest prison. i'll explain why it's built with intim nous prisoners -- indigenous prisoners in mind.

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it's good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera - i.s.i.l. released a video showing the beheading of another hostage. alan hemming was a british volunteer, captured while delivering aid to syria in december. >> the syrian coalition warns of a genocide in kobani as i.s.i.l. closes in. there has been intense battles between i.s.i.l. and kurdish fighters. student protest leaders called

off talks with the government following violent scuffles. police arrested 19 people. jeff is the communications director at the china labour bulletin. good to have you with us on al jazeera. protesters have called off talks with the government. how damaging do you think friday night's violence has been to the protest movement? >> i think it's been very damaging much i'm not at all surprised that the protesters have called off talks. as soon as the government made a concession by agreeing to talk to the protesters, the students, suddenly the protesters are attacked by hired thugs. you can perfectly understand why the protesters make the connection between the two event. whether or not the triadds, the hired thugs were accounting under the organizations of the

governments or beijing is not the point, but it has clearly poisoned the atmosphere, and the point we need to understand is that all the violence is coming from one direction. it's not - journalist standard are not attacked by the pro-democracy protesters, the violence is coming from the anti-occupy thugs and hooul significance. >> what about those that don't -- hooligans. what about those that don't want the protesters in their neighbourhoods, they just want to get on with their daily lives? >> undoubtedly some of the them are protesters, but that area in mongkok is not far from my office much the atmosphere there

is quiet, peaceful. there's not really a great deal of inconvenience caused by the pro-democracy camp. so there's clearly something more to it than simply inconvenience. >> where to next for the protest movement. what options are available to them now, do you think? >> well, we are clearly at an impasse now. so someone has to make a move now. i think the best way forwards is simply for the chief executive to resign. that is the only thing that is going to restore the faith of the protesters. >> he hasn't budged so far. it seems unlikely at this statement, doesn't it. >> it seems unlikely, but, yes, so far he's resolutely refused

to stand down, and seems to have the backing of beijing, as i said, we are looking for a way forward, and someone has to make a gesture that can dissolve the tension and get the process moving forward again. as far as i can see that is the best way forward. if you crush demonstrators or weight them out, it will not solve anything or move the protest forward. they'll erupt again at some point in the future. so chief executive resigns. you have a new election, and that can help the debate, helping the democratic process move forward. >> thank you for your thoughts. now, three senior north korean officials are paying a rare visit to south korea, they'll attend the asian games

closing ceremony. it include the man who is considered second in command to kim jong un, and they plan to meet officials for north korean affairs. a journalist and analyst an korean affairs explains why the visit is significant. >> he really started to gain in prominence in recent weeks. even his predecessor only gained in major prop thens after the succession of kim jong un, when he came in to replace his father who passed away. with the senior figures, you have to fill in the blanks. there are blanks there. we see with both, two people that held the position of number two, that is significant. it's as big as it gets without having kim jong un here.

there's speculation that he had been purged. the fact he's alongside juan, there's a sense that there's more unity behind the scenes than conspiracy theorists have been suggesting. north korea's most senior official, apart from kim jong un are in south korea, and that is unprecedented under the counter administration. >> to somalia, with forces are backed up and are fighting against al-shabab. the group suffered losses in the south of the county. al-shabab lost control of the town used as a tax collection. in september, the leader was killed in an air strike, as he was travelling to the port city. now, somalia, and african union forces are making a final push for the last bit of land controlled by al-shabab.

we have this report from mogadishu. >> soldiers advanced to a support town, 200km north of mogadishu. this is a village close. this solder belongs to african union mission. what is known... the village had been controlled by al-shabab fighters. alongside the army, it was captured without a fight much >> translation: and we are liberating more towns. this is a joint operation. we are taking the lead. >> the african union commander tells me that uganda soldiers are within striking dance. it's a stronghold and the fall is imminent. >> after this offensive, we know that al-shabab will continue to

conduct guerilla warfare. what we are doing is return the army to be able to confess to this warfare. >> further south the troops advance to three strategic up to s in an operation called indian o. al-shabab controls most of the country side and major roads in south and central somalia. the aim is to cut off supply routes that the group uses it bridge in fighters, weapons and export. >> the money made from selling charcoal helps to pay for selling weapons. it changed tactics and may not need large territories and weapons to survive. >> the question is whether they need major supply routes.

it ceases to exist as a rebel group. the focus is on asymmetric warfare. >> the african union says al-shabab has been weakened and does not have the numbers or strength to fight the advancing joint forces. its leader was recently killed, and his replacement is still new to his role. still, many people say that al-shabab cannot be written off just yet. extra police have been deployed across rio di janeiro ahead of presidential elections on sunday. 30,000 officers are on control. riot police and special forces will be deployed in strategic parts of the city. the president is facing a tough election campaign, challenged by two main position candidates. >> the three main presidential candidates have known head to

head in a tv debate, making a final pitch to voters. the latest from sao paulo. >> rouf dimmel rousseff finished her campaign, thousands lining the route to get a glimpse of her face, hoping they come out in big numbers. she's facing a tough re-election campaign by tough candidates, one is the ex-environmental minister, who is surging in the polls after she's replaced c on the ball -- edwardo campos who died in a plane crash. silva seems to have lost momentum, but is pushing strong, trying to bet the face of brazilian politics. we also have neffes, who closed

his campaign. he has been hitting rousseff hard. dil ma was overseeing an economy with 1.5% growth, and it is expected to be less than a per crept. ultimately, it will be up to the brazilian people to decide who they think should be brazil's next president, and leave the country for the next four years. >> to india where 13 have been killed and 15 injured in a stachl peed at a religious -- stampede at a religious festival. >> reporter: an angry crowd gathers over the bodies of those crushed to death. they had come to celebrate a hindu festival. it is considered important for hindus. as the event was coming to an end, something went wrong.

>> two people said an electrical wire fell on the ground, leading to the stampede. because of this, people ran and moved over each other. because of that many were killed or injured. >> local officials say one exit was overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. >> there was too much rush. >> so much push and pull and due to this there was a stampede situation that people have run over the women and children. . >> india's politicians have been quick to react. one government minister called in to question the security arrangements for such a festival with such a large crowd. >> every year people gather to celebrate the festival. there was a lack of security, one gate was open, and four

available. the lives of the people could have been saved if all the gaits were open. >> police were examining cc tv footage, to try to discover what caused the stampede. now, a new 1,000 bed prison in the northern territory, the most expensive built. once fully open, 90% of inmates will be aboriginal. we look at why so many aboriginal men end up in gaol, and what can be done about it. >> reporter: when graham woods killed a man during a drunken fight, his wife was pregnant. woods is halfway through his sentence, already he's been in prison for all five years of his daughter's life. passport of a scheme sentence to a job, woods leaves prison for a few hours each day, hoping the work experience will lead to a career as a marine mechanic. >> once i'm out, i know i'll

never make the same mistake or go down the track. >> woods accept he deservings to go to prison for a crime he committed. do so many others have to be behind bars. the most sparsely populated place in australia has a large percentage in prison. the vast majority aboriginal. >> we are at the point where when you have a 30% population, and 85% of people in gaol are aboriginal, that is crisis point. >> one reason for high rates of indigenous imprisonment is repeat offending and recidivism. >> it is not something that we are proud of in the territory, it is higher than other jurisdictions throughout australia. this facility, however, gives us the opportunity to get prisoners into real employment, skills and

development. >> this is that facility, a 1,000 bed prison, an hour outside darwin, replacing a chronically overcrowded gaol close to the city center. here the emphasis is on training. the idea is that prisoners spend as little time as possible in here. time in cells is wasted. what indigenous prisoners need is training. >> it's welfare dependence and lack of employment. if you attend to those things, you get a better result. no matter who the prisoner is. most who end up in the prison will be inside for minor crimes and short periods. using that time to make sure it's not repeated, is how the northern territory government wants to get its high rate of imprisonment down. i'll take you to live pictures out of saudi arabia, where muslims from around the world are gathering for the

annual hajj pilgrimage, and it's also eid, 1.4 pilgrims are expected in mecca this year. you can keep up to date with all the news on the website at aljazeera.com. republicans are ready to answer none of the above, and that's having an p>> democrat, republican, more republicans are ready to answer none of the above, and that's