>> well to the news hou hour--welcome to the news hour we're live in doha. nomore air power to help kurdish forces. protests in the ye yemeni town trying to keep out houthi

fighters. >> i'm going to be a scientist in the future. >> we'll look at a school in north korea's school in pyongyang. >> fighter jets are becoming islamic state in iraq and th bombing islamic state in iraq and the levant. bernard smith has more from the turkish-syrian border. >> reporter: airstrikes hit kobane on saturday afternoon and early in the morning as well. those in the afternoon came after a series of mortars in and around border areas in determined attempt to take control of the border passing

three hitting the turkish side. we've been told that the airstrikes won't be enough to save the town. yes they've been able to gain territory, and they've been pushed back a little bit, but the kurds believe that the opening 30-35% of the south and the difficulty in rooting them out of there is that they're hiding in private homes. they have to go home to home to find them. without more of airstrikes helping the syrian kurds saying this is a very difficult for them to maintain, for them to win. >> the iraqi government has killed 94 isil gunmen in strikes. an isil commander was killed in anbar, and another leader was killed in slahuddin.

en isil's expansion in syria and in iraq has been incredible, and the the capital of its self declared caliphate is al raqqa. thethe very next day it marched further on and seized the city of tikrit 3. >> air force pilots teaching near aleppo where the training apparently has taken place. australia's foreign minister

said that her country won't be sending soldiers to fight on the ground in iraq. they held talks with the government. they say foreign troops would an red line that would threaten iraq's sovereignty. >> from australia's perspective we do not envision sending ground forces. we've not been asked to, we've not offered to. i don't see that being part of our arrangements with iraq. we'll only provide assistance at th the invitation of the iraqi government. >> people have said they've lost confidence in iraq's army to protect their communities. >> reporter: these men are part of yet another irregular armed force in iraq.

farmers, students, the school principal, almost every man in this northern village has a new job, protecting their families from the islamic states of iraq and levant. they feel particularly threatened. >> we have to be alert at all times day and night. we have to make sure that isil is not able to come here. they've threatened us many tim times. >> reporter: islamic state in iraq and the levant surround their village from three sides. the warring parties are usually just a few hundred meters apart. this open ground make it easy for isil to push into this village south of kirkuk city. >> isil did bad things to yazidis in sinjar. we're afraid they'll do the same things to us. if they do come here we'll have to leave. >> reporter: they are aware of

how isil fighters killed and kidnapped hundreds of yazidis. human rights groups have accused the armed group of carrying out a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities in northern iraq. this is not the only community who has taken up arms. the yazidis, christians, kurds, sunni, shia, everyone is now armed and they all talk about the need to protect themselves. the iraqi state no longer has a presence in many areas since isil's advance in june. four months later people are worried that this country is slowly escalating into ethnic cleansing. >> they're losing hope that iraq can be united again. >> they don't know if they'll be able to defend their ground. what they prefer is for one

authority to hold this country together, but the power now seems to be in the hands offing i erof irregular armies. >> iraq's parliament has appointed ministers to two key government positions. it is hoped that it will gain the trust of sunnies in the north. the minister of interior belon belonged to prime minister al abadi's political bloc. imran, how has these gone down? >> they have been swift and positive and the united nations welcome the full cabinet being

formed. they said this was the only way that iraq could get on in the fight against isil and help to rebuild the country. this has been seen as two key appointment. they have to reach out to the political spectrum. they could not put their own people out within positions of power. so these two key ministries are now being used as political tool to the sunni, kurds. so now you have a situation where you have a much more inclusive political spectrum here in iraq. prime minister al abadi faces a challenge that it does not have the power that prime minister nouri al-maliki had. he has to rule much more by consensus. he'll need the backing of all the partners in the fight against isil in particular.

the sunnies have already said that they want international troops on the ground, in particular they say the only way they'll fight isil fighters. others say that's a red line. we can't have foreign troops there. they're already in disagreement, but many here feel that because it's much more inclusive those disagreements will happen, and they say it's much better 3. >> thanks a lot. >> 17 people have been killed in continued fighting in yemen. fighters from the houthi group are fighting from sunni-armed tribesmen. it comes in a collapse of a cease-fire. houthi fighters had picked up tribesmen in the area.

on friday they overran the province of bayda. and they have been fighting in ibb's province. yesterday we were talking about a previous cease-fire and it certainly was brief. >> certainly was, nick. article morning there was an bush against the houthi leaders. they were sending the enforcements to the town of. the clashes continued out throughout the day and 17 people killed from the two sides. the latest from that town is

that the fighting has stopped. there is some sort of mediation between the houthi rebels and tribal leaders trying to contain the spread of violence in the province of ibb. >> the town in the province is the latest battlefield between yemen shia houthi and tribal fighters. many from the two sides were killed. but in the city of ibb people are angry. they're against the recent houthi takeover of the city and the fighting. no to armed militia this banner reads. >> they should all leave. we don't want armed men here. this city is peaceful. >> tribal leaders in this mostly sunni province are mobilizing their force. sending dozens of armed men and

a promise to fight the shia houthi es. in the northwest new potential front are houthis. dozens march. chanting anti-houthi slogans. they want houthi out oh the second largest port on the red sea. >> i tell the houthies here that the port is a red line. and it belongs to us. >> some fear yemen might be heading to a civil war since the advance. and with the military failing to stop them many here believe there is a hidden agenda between the houthies and former president. >> we're talking about ibb, and

we're talking about ibb and why it's important strategically? >> reporter: ibb is important because it is a predominantly sunni area. it has strong tribal connections there, and it is not far from the province of lamar which the houthies overran three or four days ago, so it is on the province there. >> thank you very much for the reporting there. we're joined on the phone from sanaa, nick from the u.n. agency. it's easy to gloss over what is going on the ground for people

who live there in yemen. give us a broad picture of what you know about humanitarian situation? >> yes, thank you for having me, nick. here in sanaa where i am stationed the situation is very tense. it's changing the way we live and changing the way we have to work. so we continue our work and helping refugees. we work very closely with our partners, we've been able to access areas where we were unable to access. >> it must be incredibly difficult to work in this country right now, isn't it? >> it is, it is, but the humanitarian community is used to it. we're largely able to continue

our work and respond to new challenges, but continue our work by changing the way we work. we do work very closely with yemeni who are able to access the areas now. >> is there more of a necessity for the international community to step in? >> yes, yes, there is. suddenly yemen faces a very tough humanitarian situation in the country. and more than half are in need of humanitarian aid. this year the humanitarian community has targeted 7 million people, and we reached 3.5 people. over 12,700 people reached yemen shores from the all of africa. this is the highest month on record. >> nick. that's nick stanton reporting

from the unhcr updating us on the hue ma humanitarian situation there on the ground of yemen. still ahead, the police in hong kong confront demonstrators as they try to clear more protest sites. plus we're in the himalayans. at least 40 people have been killed. we have sport coming up in a half hour or so, city beats spurs, again details coming up with jo. >> a new u.n.-led initiative in libya has been announced to stop the fight in tripcally and allow humanitarian aid in the capitol. fighting in bengahzi has

intensified. about 40 people have been killed in days of fighting. this is the worse violence since 2011, and it reflects the economic chaos. an alliance of revolutionary groups that fought together, and they have director of the institute, and they believe the fighting can only end around the negotiating table. >> it seems that they go not support a negotiation settlement at this time.

but having said that this can only be settled through an negotiation. the grievances and the broad brush that they've been painting for the area that wants an army, they want a police. they want to respect international law and not adhere to popularism and fan the flame of conflict. i think at that point we realize if we can summarize all these different blocs that are involved with different grievances, fear and ambition it doesn't come down to the few here who are terrorists, it comes down to higher financial and military objectives, and unless you get secure positions to different factions in the security institutions in the army and the police and insurgents as well you're not going to find equilibrium where people can say they can safely

put down their weapons now. there is so much more violence to come. i think this is just the beginning. >> hong kong officials are scheduled to hold talks with student demonstrators. sarah clar clark has the late frees hong kong. >> reporter: ththousands of protesters moved back in the mong kok district. they refused to go as police arrived. pepper spray and batons were used, dozens were arrested and there were several injured on both sides. >> i think the police are very violent. they just use the broken umbrellas to hit us.

>> reporter: traffic was blocked and what followed was a tense stand off that lasted for hours. >> we want universal suffrage and dialogue with beijing. they are concerned that the li violent demonstrations might have derailed. the police chief is angry describing what happened last night as an environment and unlawful assembly that is destroying the rule of law. >> the police have been extremely tolerant of the acts of the demonstrators in the past two or three weeks. we did this in the hopes they could calm down and express in rational lawful manner. unfortunately these protesters chose to carry on with their unlawful acts.

including unlawful acts which are more radical, more violent. >> reporter: hong kong'hong kons government confirmed that talks would go on tuesday. more people are expected to gather tonight. many expect last night's violence may lead to more occupation of public areas. sarah clark, al jazeera, hong kong. >> the world health organization said it would conduct a review of its ebola crisis. the "world health organization" admitted to bungling the handling of the crisis. >> it's like you're in your room

and the house is on fire and you put wet towels under the door. you're still in trouble. >> thousands of liberian refugees living in ghana's capitol are worried about their relatives back home. the stigma attached to the virus is so great that people are not willing to onlily admit that relatives have died from it. >> jefferson carr escaped war in liberia as a young boy. he moved here in 1998. he managed to go to school and had plans to return to liberia in september to set up a management studies college. but ebola has changed all of that. >> after going through civil war, recovering everything that we lost, and then now ebola,

this disease has come up again. >> reporter: he doesn't know when he'll be able to go home so he started his college here. his family in liberia is constantly on his mind. he is afraid for his life in the east of the country. there are more than 10,000 li 10,0010,000 lie beer10,000 liberians. but it's not something that they like to talk about openly. >> they are close together. it's a place where there is a fear if ebola erupts here it will spread like wild bush fire. many people move out and come

back. >> but the borders are closed? >> yes, they are closed. >> the settlement is soon to be dismantled. liberians are being repatriated about some stay on in begun in as refugees. jefferson wants to go back. he praise every day that liberia will be stable that he can raise the funds and follow his dreams of a college back home. >> well, france has become the latest country to start scree screening passengers arriving from ebola countries. temperature checks have been screened on passengers coming in. president obama is resisting calls for the u.s. to institute a travel ban. he said trying to seal off a region of the world is not possible, and if it were it would only make things worse. >> obama: before this is over we may see more isolated cases here

in america. but we know how to wage this fight. if we take the steps necessary, if we're guided by science and facts, not fear, i'm confident we can prevent an outbreak here in the united states and we can continue to lead the world in this urgent effort. >> coming up on al jazeera, ireland's medical crete, a brutal method used on women during childbirth. >> find out why one of asia's football teams are having to play their home games 200 kilometers away from their own stadium.

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