>> joining the fight against isil, the first peshmerga fighters head to the syrian town of kobane. hello, also to come on the program. 60 people are killed in a refugee camp in northern syria after a barrel bomb attack by the government. forced migration egypt forces thousands to a buffer zone with gaza. the "world health organization" said that more

than 5,000 people are believed to have died from ebola in west africa. the new interim leader, africa has a whitehead of state for the first time in 20 years. >> kurdish forces battling isil in the syrian town of kobane, has received more fighters. they're on their way to the border town. a contingent of syrian rebels have arrived to fight for kobane. >> reporter: for turks it's an unprecedented sight, armed kurdish fighters being escorted through turkey by a turkey convoy. these are iraqi peshmerga on their way to join the battle for

kobane in syria. they've been pressured to do more to stop kobane from falling to isil. they have been in conflict with kurdish separatists for monday than 30 years and said that syrian kurds are no different. but they do not see them as a threat, so they let them through. as the convoy made it's way the u.s.-led coalition launched more airstrikes focused on the border crossing. it's there where the peshmerga might enter syria, and so is a place that has been a focus of repeated assaults from isil fighters. >> instead of finding a way to reconcile the different parties, the united states now decided to arm more people, and to train more people. and this will only pro long the war, and it will be more heavy than it is now.

>> the peshmerga are bringing heavy weapons, such as artillery and mortars. it is this hardware that the kurds in kobane say that they desperately need. they've held their grunt with just small arms and grenades as well as airstrikes. there are reinforcements from the free syrian army. added to the peshmerga, it means around 200 men. but this is a battle where both sides have thousands of fighters. and where isil particularly seems to be able to easily and rapidly replenish it's ranks. bernard smith, al jazeera, on the turkish-syrian border. >> the u.s. envoy coordinating the coalition. he spoke to us about turkey's role in the conflict, and what it would take to knock isil back. >> it's not going to be a short period of time. it's going to take the cooperation of many of the members of the coalition over a period. we're going to combine our

efforts in a number of ways. to accomplish ultimately the objective of degrading isil and ultimately defeating him. neglect of the operational requirements of the military forces. frankly, sectarian policies, which replaced key leaders within the iraqi security forces, and i think what we're seeing now, what we're hearing now is that the iraqi forces of the future will be the iraqi security forces of all the people. three training centers they'll be trained and equipped, and returned into syria. where they'll conduct operations against daesh and they'll include other elements to include in the regime. turkey has made important

contributions already to the coalition. we're seeing unfolding today the positive outcome of conversation between the peshmerga, the defenders of kobane and turkey to provide for the reinforcement of kobane. and beyond that, i'll simply say that we're in a conversation with turkey about the role that it can play within the coolish, and ultimately dealing with daesh. >> a syrian government bombing has killed at least 60 people in a refugee camp. the bomb hit the camp of people who had escaped fighting. stephanie dekker reports 1234 the man filming this has just arrived on the scene. this is what is left after the syrian regime dropped a barrel bomb on a camp on people who have been forced out of their homes.

a lot of what is filmed is too gruesome to film. a dead child is picked up, and there are more dead over here. "shame on you, where is your conscience" this man screams. his anger is directed towards al nusra front and alqaida affiliate. have you forgotten who the enemy is, he asks! there has been fighting between those two groups in the idlib province. this have shows the al news ha al nusra front taking control. al jazeera cannot confirm it's authenticity. >> there is terrorism because of the infighting, this is causing a lot of fear for civilians. we don't see anyone in the streets. people are nervous because of

this infighting. >> while that goes on the government is making head way on a highway to the south that leads here, and idlib city remains in government hands despite an attack on monday. syrian state television wants to show that everything is under control despite the many casualties suffered. syria's war is not a simple one of opposition. many groups and many allegiances it seems like nothing in this war is clear any more. stephanie deck kerr, al jazeera, beirut. >> now hundreds of egyptians living in northern sinai are being forced to leave their homes for a planned buffer zone. their houses will be demolished to create a protective area between egypt and the gaza strip. egypt said its designed to stop attackers from getting into northern sinai. >> they've been leaving with whatever they can carry. abandoning homes and livelihoods with what they say is no hope of

returning. they are some of the hundreds of people who live within 300 meters of the border crossing. the egyptian government said it's to become a buffer zone, a strip to protect the north sinai border and to keep attackers and weapons out. the buffer zone will expand to 500 meters right along the entire 4-kilometer border, and include water-filled trenches to keep people from building tunnels. >> around 600 houses have been evacuated so far, but still there are some families refusing to leave. they say it's better for them to die in their homes. the army has threatened to destroy houses even if the families haven't left. >> the decision to force people out of the area follows escalation in the fighting of

egypt's north sinai over the last three years. that violence spiked on friday after an attack killed 31 soldiers, the worst against egypt's military personnel in years. egypt declared a state of emergency there. has, which controls the gaza strip, has been accused of supporting fighters angered by the removal of mohamed morsi in a military coup last year. it's something that hamas denies, and imposes stricter border crossing rules. no one has claimed the attack, but retribution for morsi's removal and crackdown on his supporters. egyptian officials are discussing compensation with hundreds of people who are now forced to give up their homes. but staying is not an option.

any still there when the deadline expires has been threatened with arrest. al jazeera. >> the zambian vice president has been named interim leader amid elections. he's the first white head of state in south africa since south africa's de klerk who left power 25 years ago. you we go live now to the zambian capitol. and zambians have known for some time that their president was not well, but how serious was it? >> reporter: you know, i think they did. it's been many months now that there have been rumors or u

undeniabl deniable incidents. last week really the government had to admit that he was sick because he was flown out of the country abroad for medical treatment. they wouldn't say where or exactly what was wrong, but they had to admit him because he was going to miss the country's go golden jubilee celebration. having denied for many months that there was anything wrong, they were forced in a corner. i think having been a liberation hero himself, he would not have missed friday's celebrations for the world. the fact that he did so indicated very strongly that the president was very unwell. >> the official denial about the condition of the president has led to this confusion, hasn't it, with regards to the succession? >> yes, absolutely, because it was never--a succession was never something that was

discussed openly. and they led the governing front with something of an iron fist. i mean, he was the patriotic front. without him, the party is left in a state. he never made it clear who his preferred successor was. there are a lot of names in the mix, former and current ministers, including one who is an uncle, but no clear successor. they never admitted that he was sick. so it's a very unclear picture. the pf really has to work very hard over the next couple of weeks to get behind the president candidate. otherwise, it risks the opportunity that a gap may open up and we may not only see a new president in three month's time, but we could see a change in government. >> we're in a particular

situation in not having an active vice president to run those elections and possibly become president, is that still the case? >> it is, and you might ask why is he the vice president there? the truth is that he goes back a very long way with michael. they've worked together as politicians for most of their careers. his parents are scottish, they're non-zambians, if you like. the final draft constitution, which had been pushed for by the opposition, was released, and it abolishes in the institution. however, there would not be time for them to run. however, there is precedence on this matter.

his parents were not either. but the supreme court supported them because they found, look, if zambia did not exist before 1964, how is it possible that someone's parents could have been zambian at all. so it's possible that scott, if he wanted to, could run and win the presidency. there is much to be worked out here, but for now we'r they would like to mourn him properly. >> still to come on the program, including india's hunt for black money. the supreme court gets a list of people, some of who say they have stashed money abroad. plus why two indonesia football clubs have tried to do each other by trying to lose the

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zambian vice president has been named interim leader ahead of fresh elections. he temporarily replacing the president who died in in hospital from an undisclosed illness. the ebola death toll has now exceeded 5,000, but getting accurate data coming from these areas, the figure could be much higher. let's look at how the outbreak is unfolding. >> i virus is found in the animal's bodily equations. if you come in contact with it you become infected. >> we sent it to two different laboratories, but it came back ebola. >> our families are going to go hungry. >> certain members of the family

escaped our control, and through their movement increased the number of infections in certain areas. >> these boulders, we need to be prepared. >> we don't have to wait for a confirmation. >> everfor every important with ebola, ten more become infected. >> heavy yes death toll of health workers defeats the control of any outbreak.

>> with ebola, there is nowhere to run to because the countries you would run to are refusing you to go there. >> it's spiraling out of control. it's getting worse. it's spreading faster and exponentially. >> someone who had contact with this individual. a family member or other individual could develop ebola in the coming weeks, but there is no doubt in my mind that we'll stop it here. >> exclusion, restriction. it is not the appropriate response to this. >> now the warning of economic

inequality is at extreme levels. in this latest report it says that the gap between rich and poor is one of the biggest economic social problems of our time. oxfam said that the wealth gap is getting worse. in south africa inequality is greater now than at the end of apartheid. the number of billionaires now exceed 1,600. that's more than doubled since the start of the financial crisis in 2008. but they don't just live in wealthy countries. sub-sahara in africa had 358 million people who are living in extreme poverty, but also it's got 16 billionaires. a tax on billionaires following the financial crisis could have saved 23 million lives by

investing in healthcare. all right, we can talk to mark goldring, the executive at gold firm. what is wrong with rich people. >> there is nothing wrong with rich people, and we applaud the efforts to create wealth. the challenge is how it's spread and how it's used. as the rich get richer, the very poor are not benefiting. the gap between rich and poor is widening. over the year we said that 85 people own as much as half the world's population. what we are a he seeing is that is getting worse. unless we tackle it, we will not be irradicating poverty at the speed that we possibly could do so. that means more children don't go to school. it means more mothers die in childbirth, and it means more

people go to bed hungry. >> michael: is this not an inevitable consequence of having free market capitalism across much of the world? would you say that many of these countries go for the communist model, for instance? >> no, certainly not. we're welcoming capitalism. we're welcoming efforts to generate wealth. it needs to be spread and distributed more carefully. capital is one thing but market is another thing. what we're talling for is a fairer system of taxation globally so people pay taxes in the countries where the money is earned, not where there are tax havens. we have the famous quote interest warren buffet, who said that it seems surprising that his secretary pays tax at a higher rate than he does because the rich are able to move their resources around. we're calling for more spending on public services, which makes education and health especially

makes a huge difference to poor people's lives opportunities. we're calling for fair wages, living wages, so people can live on what they earn. >> so you would be applauding the action taken by the indian government. we're reporting it today, the fact that the new government there is trying to crackdown on tax avoidance? >> we certainly would. we think that tax avoidance internationally is a big issue. it faces like bangladesh, zambia, india, we'r they're able to capture their fair share of wealth generated in their countries they would have far more to spent on basic services. we also need to recognize that the rich are far more able than the rest of the population to move their money around, as a result to minimize taxes. fair taxes, this is not penal taxes, something that could make a difference to the money governments can spend on

irradicating poverty. >> poverty is not just a matter to be dwelt with in the developing world. in poorer countries. there is an awful lot of poverty in the rich, industrialized world. >> we're not talking about these issues. we're not talking about one type of country or other. in the usa since the end of the recession 90% of wealth that's been generated, new wealth has been captured by 1% of the population. yet 90% of people are worse off. so we need to look at distributions in the richer countries of the world as well. we all have that same challenge of running our health service and education services, which benefit the poor, which will be helped by fair, global tax ways. taxation. but they would be helped by realizing we need to exist as a society and create a society we all want to live in, not one

that benefits a few. >> mark goldring, chief executive of oxfam. thank you. >> thank you. >> there army dates back to the war of independence in 1971, pakistan against the pro independent movement. the army has been charged with orchestrating the killing of top professor, writers and doctors. in sri lanka at least three people have died as a result of a mudslide which buried workers' homes at a plantation. hundreds of people were living at the estate in uva province, and many of those are now feared dead. >> a hong kong tycoon has been expelled from china's top government advisory after publicly criticizing the city's

beijing-backed leader. hong kong's leader has been struggling to end a a month-long protest. the indian government has given the supreme court a list of more than 600 people, some who are accused of illegally stashing money in illegal foreign accounts. >> reporter: the indian government o moved against those who have foreign accounts. >> we are tired of these

accounts. >> tackling the black money issue was one of the agenda the party promised in election campaign earlier this year. prime minister narendra modi said if elected his party would bring back millions in off-store dead accounts. now those who want the government to act faster are demanding the secret list it submitted to the supreme court be made public by a special investigative team formed by the government to deal with the problem. >> we hope that society will recommend this, will order the disclosure of most of these games because it is important that the country comes to know as to who are these account holders, particularly those whose accounts were found to be illegal. >> in recent years tens of thousands of indians have protested against high-level

corruption. numerous governments have promised to crackdown on tax evasion, but this is the first time that any fames have been forwarded to the country's highest court. >> this is a good idea. >> corruption is on a very large scale. >> according to varying estimates the illegal flow of money out of india has cost the national economy billions of dollars over the past ten years alone. the government's decision to crackdown on black money has been widely welcomed but corruption is deeply rooted in indian politics, so the question many indians are asking is just how far are the authorities prepared to go to investigate and prosecute those who may be accused of wrongdoing? al jazeera, new delhi. >> now to some goals, two teams

have been disqualified after each of them tried hard not to lose. five goals in the last four minutes of the match. if you want to see those goals or catch up with the rest of the day's news you can always go to the al jazeera website www.aljazeera.com. >> khanki [han-kee] refugee camp northern iraq. a family is burying a young woman they say was killed while escaping the group calling itself the islamic state. her father told us what happened.