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conflict. >> i am joining with the sport as the beijing marathon goes ahead despite heavy smog in the chinese capitol. participants had to pull out despite running. in a mask. we begin where the battle for thekey town that borders to your recollection continues. kurdish forces have prevented isil from cutting off supply lines. they fought off the assault and have pushed isil fighters back with the help of u.s.-led airstrikes. they have held the town after weeks of fierce fighting. but isil still controls about one third of kobane. for that reason, the leader of syria's kurds told al jazeera, they need more help to fight isil. he says his party is willing to share party with the political rivals. as zheda hoda reports.

>>. >> he is in charge of a self-declared region in northeastern syria. he is a man under pressure. his political party group, the democratic union party, which goes by its kurdish acronym pyd is at ward with the islamic state in iraqanding the lavante. he has been appealing to the world for weapons. the pyd is being asked to make concessions. one is giving up some power to other syrian kurdish factions that are allied to turkey? >> without political conditions, they don't want to do it with the political conditions, this doesn't mean help. it means something else. we don't like to change the add miles per hourstration we have because we would like

shaffering, not changing, not collapsing it. >> in northern iraq, which itself is at war with isil. they are political rivals. so far, there is no common ground. >> salih's opponents wants him to meet certain conditions. if the pyd wants to be part of the international coalition against isil, conditions they say have also been demanded by washington. >> they could be the only fighting force on the ground. there needs to be a joint command. they need to work with the syrian opposition. they need to end their times with the syrian regime and turkey should not be their enemy. >> the pyd has been at war with isil for weeks now. it could be defeated and lose even more kurdish territory in northern syria and the fate of millions of syrian kurds caught

in the conflict could depend upon a political deal between arrival faxes who are tied to competing region nam powers. what has become clear is that the pyd will have to make concessions before the weapons it wants start to pour in. zhena hoda. >> the kurds may be asking for weapons, but the turks are saying, don't ask us to support terrorists. >> reporter: it is a reminder of how turkey views the kurds fighting in kobane. reminded reporters on a flight back from afghanistan it was his belief the kurds fighting in kobane are terrorists. >> that's what he calls them because he sees them as alies of the cardstan workers party, the party that turkey has been fighting a 30-odd-year-old conflict.

turkey does not want to supply weapons to the kurds in kobane. it's unlikely it's going to do so. it will and has been doing, providing humanitarian assistance to kurds who fled kobane. more than 180,000 -- excuse me, 180,000 of them being housed here in the surrounding areas. in addition t makes a total of, by the way, one and a half million syrian refugees in turkey. >> given what you are saying, that probably means a lot more nights of heavy fighting to come like we saw last night? ? >> /* sglr it was one of the heavyiest nights of fighting so far in kobane. there were lots of street battles, building to building fighting but there remains after a couple of days something of a stalemate, the airstrikes have helped. they are not enough to push isil out of the town. they still control about 30% of

kobane towns to the south and the east. the kurds have retaken some positions a couple of days ago, but still, something of a stalemate in kobane. >> thank you for that. heavy shelling by the iraqi army against isil forces in the western province of anbar has killed at least six civilians according to police. it happened in the city of hiit. >> security sources say four security forces have been killed in an isil attack. the mun i guess pal's chief of police is said to be among the casualties. the attack targeted a military vehicle in northern tikrit. for more on the battle against isil, i am joined by military analyst who joins us from ankara. good to have you with us. are you look at the regional situation, the chaos in syria gives isil access to weapons,

oil, money, recruitment of fighters. can be defeated without addressing that chaos in syria? >> in the long-term, it can't be without addressing the strategy where turkey is also rules where fighters are joining isil. there needs to be an effort to reradical eyes the fighters. there also needs to be efforts to we might need more protection of ground troops on ground. however, at the end of the day, a fight against isil will take

longer than we can imagine. >> right. why has there been such a quick international action focused on isil and airstrikes on isil but not on dealing with intervention which has killed far more civil yajz than any of the armed groups operating out of syria? >> spa. >> the main reason behind this, the reluctance of intervening into syrian regime as we all know to trigger such an intervention on the assad

regime. the region, the supporters of the syrian regime have played a significant factor in the reluctance of a u.s. led coalition for intervening syrian regime. against its own people russia's con cents was given to not rise on they tried to go ahead with the civil war, which entered the

on the first year now. plants are particularly those in the region have failed to really realize that this has gained strength in iraq and syria because we have been hearing about the organization, terrorist organization, called isil for a long period of time newer question is why now on isil? it may be a double standard. isil is different from other terrorist organizations like al-qaeda. isil has really been occupying lands and declared the so-called islamic state in areas bordering

turkey. some in this sense, it is declared caliphate regime. >> right. >> the definition. >> from other groups operating there. thank you so much isil has pushed to take the syrian border town has led to more people heading into turkey. humanitarian on the turkish border says around 1.6 million people have fled to turkey since the syrian crisis began four years ago. >> here in this school, we have over 5,000 people, half of them are children living in a situation whethey are being supported by unhcr, by the world food program, by unicef,assad and other poerz have come together recognizing that the children need psychosocial support. people need to be housed and

sheltered and that this is a transition to a more settled camp situation. >> yemen's new prime minister has met with the country's president in sanaa. he was appointed to a top job last week. he was in new york where he was serving as yemen's ambassador to the u.n. there has been continued fighting in the country and demonstrations against the advance of houthi rebels from the north. joining us live from the yemeni capitol, how is the prime minister getting on with the job of trying to put together the next government? >> well, he's facing a difficult task. he needs to please all of the warring factors and all of the complexities in this country under the peace deal brokered by the u.n. last month, the new prime minister needs to consult

with at least four political blocs. each is made of a number of political parties. each party has itsina fillations and agendas. so, it's extremely difficult job, sami. >> omar, what about that peace deal which was announced? is that holding? we are hearing reports of fighting around the country. >> with regards to the understanding is that they breached an initial cease-fire -- they have reached an initial cease-fire agreement and there are trying to pan out the details of the agreement. >> agreement does not include the withdrawal of the houthi fighters from it and that is a key demand for the tribal leaders there. the houthis on the other hand went on to pursue their enemies. they destroyed the house that belongs to a prominent tribal

sheikh so i think it could -- fighting there could really escalate. >> all right, from sanaa, thanks for that. what is behind the divisions in yemen? he divisions in yemen?

scomplarn moving up from the east of sanaa. it's a complex overall picture thatome analysts believe can only fuel further fighting it looks like a deep ter sectarian divide and let's say the clans, the tribesmen of the other parts of the country that might not, you might say, ally. you can see them throwing in t those kind of clashes that we would expect to see in the near term it has been looking to gain from the current instability and the wider geo political 6: houthis are backed by iran. >> that's a concern for saudi arabia which is mainly sunni. in recent years, the saudis have

backed the yemeni government's efforts to contain the houthis along their shared border. dominic kane, al jazeera. >> let's bring you some breaking news we are getting, word of a suicide attack on a shia mosque in the west of baghdad in the mixed neighborhood of hadathi, the iraqi capitol's mosque coming under attack there. apparently nine people are dead and 26 injured. just to recam there, a suicide attack on a shia mosque leaves 9 people dead and 26 wounded. >> we will bring you more on this story as the details come through. an arab league delegation, a show of support for the new government. the iraq's foreign affairs minister met the group on arrival. it comes after a spate of suicide bombings in baghdad. the government is trying to calm fears of many of the city's residents as imran khan reports. >> a marketplace and neighborhoods like this, these 1

suicide bombers have struck in the last 45 days. the government statisticsidge has people worried iraqi politicians aren't doing enough to protect the capitol and its people. omar says the short walk from his home to his shop is dangerous. >> we are living in fear. every day, i open my shop, i think a bomber could attack. we shut the shop by midday. after that, it's too risky to open. >> he is angry at the agreement. nothing has changed for us. for us iraqis, it's a sign of violence and death. there is no hope: this video insists baghdad is safe and ready to face any challenge.

shia medicalishas will be impor. and they have held rallies like this one to show how read they are to fight but they make many sunni muslims nervous. they are afraid there could be a return to the kind of sectarian blood shed that nearly drove iraq to civil war a few years ago. dealing with that will be crucial. however, there is a more pressing concern. isil fighters are now on three sides of this city. >> and they showed no signs of slowing down. the capitol has always been in their sites and with each village and town they take, they get even closer, making people here even more nervous. imran khan, al jazeera, baghdad. >> still to come on the al jazeera news hour, a step towards sainthood for an old

pope, but a step back for france's after bishop's welcome guy people into the catholic church. a college travels on a near-miss route to mars. >> come events, i thought they were insensitive, extremely sexist as well as racist at the same time. >> serena williams hits back at comments made by russian officials. she will have all of the details in sports. the u.s. and 4 european allies are calling for an end to the fighting in libya. they said they are ready to impose sanctions against individuals, forces loyal to former general halifa fighting malitias in the city of benghazi and klikla in the west of the country. dozens of people have been

killed. thousands of civilians have fled the violence. let's go now live to tripoli, al jazeera's narsala bed ri joins us. first of all, give us an assessment, an idea of what civilians are facing. we have had pleas from humanitarian organizations the western side, the western mountain side of tripoli about 120, 150 kilometers from the capitol, tripoli in really, really they are facing anonslaught. two cities have come under chef shelling from the forces allied to the city over the last few days. the number of casualties has been increasing. so far, we are talking about over 100 dead and over 200

people actually have been injured. many of them actually have vacated their homes and moved in to the areas surrounding garian and many individuals surrounding the early on the eastern side of libya, particularly in the city of benjamghazi. many of the districts which have seen the forces loyal to the renegade general hafta and the militia of it libya have been almost completely deserted by the civilian populations which have moved to other areas and we are talking of about at least 61 dead so far according to medical sources and 45 injured. most of them in the -- within the ranks of the civilian population. a very desperate situation on the front supplying many of these. very short, very acute situations regarding the medical

situation. most of the medical, injured people, have been taken to the local hospitals which are overwhelmed. so many of them actually have witnessed yesterday in the city have been taken into the hospital in the city. >> western powers are urging fighting leading to the sanctions. how is that being received inside libya? >> as far as i know, the situation on the ground is very difficult. in many of these front lines, the lines are en tang he had between the forces. for example in the western side, the forces of the door of libya trying to cap the supply line both sides, a cease-fire to allow the evacuation of injured

people. so far on the ground, there is nothing as such. >> nosil, thank you so much. now to the latest developments on the ebola outbreak. linebiera's president, ellen jo johnson sirleaf has made a plea to help with the fight. 4 and a half thousand people have died. cuba is certainlieding 165 doctors and nurses with plans top send nearly 300 more to linebiera and guinea. israel has announced it will begin screening passengers arriving from ebola-hit countries in west africa. it comes as global health experts are meeting at the world health summit to tackle the ebola outbreak. these are live pictures of the meeting in berlin. according to the world health organization, more than 9,000 cases of ebola have been reported worldwide. west african countries remain the worst hit by the outbreak. almost two and a half thousand people have died in liberia. sierra leone has seen at least

1200 dead and more than 860 have died in beginee. the total number of fatality did from ebola stands at 4 and a half thousandguinean. the total number of fatality did from ebola stands at 4 and a half thousand s at 4 and a half thousand

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