24 suspected migrants drown as a boat sinks off istanbul. ♪ hello, i'm samplery at al jazeera headquarters in doha and baghdad and visitors to sierra holy site also be targeted and new military leaders call for patience as protests once again hit the capitol. and we explain why hundreds of native americans in minnesota are protesting against one of

the country's best known football teams. ♪ now, 24 suspected migrants have drown after a boat sank off the turkish city of istanbul and searching for survivors north of the striet and the boat thought to carry migrants from afghanistan and syria and seven people have been rescued and this is a hub for illegal migrants trying to reach europe and we are live from istanbul and have all the passengers been acquainted for now? >> not at the moment, sammy, we know this is an ongoing rescue operation and believe the boat set off this morning through the strait and headed to the black sea on somewhere around there it has capsized because it was overloaded and because it has been very windy so the weather

has not been very good. fishermen who initially went to the rescue said this was a small pleasure boat to carry 7-9 people and the waters around istanbul and know so far 20 people have drown and six survived and clearly the boat must have been overloaded in some way as well as hitting the bad weather, the coast guard say us the rescue operation with helicopters and boats is underway. >> where were they heading? do we know what was the story with this boat? >> we think almost certainly heading to the european union and the route they have taken through the black sea meant they were heading to bulgaria or romania and it may appear on the map slightly less periless way of reaching europe, there is another route through the mediterranean that is popular as well and think they were

afghanistans and through afghanistan and iran and turkey and it was periless before making the journey. >> bernard from istanbul. intense fighting in the syrian town of kobani and these are live pictures of smoke rising from the border town and kurdish forces there bordering the islamic state and the groups have been trying to capture the town for more than a month now and we are live from the turkey/syria border and first i understand the strategy going on is an attempt to encircle isil positions there and tell us more about that. >> indeed sammy, earlier today the kurdish coalition forces that is coalition of the peshmerga forces and local ypg syrian forces opened up a new front between on to the isil fighters from the southwest of

the town that is behind me, essentially shelling the suburbs of the town and the neighboring villages where it's believed there with are isil positions and saw mortars there and smoke rising from there and the mortars are fired by peshmerga forces while the local wpg fighters are moving on the grounds to capture the ground and it's important to let you know this is and why this is such a significant story to the turks is there are several shells that fell inside the turkish border to show you how volume tile it is. meanwhile there has been a sound of drones flying above as well as other coalition and that is explosion we hear as well as other aircrafts above and seems to be more activity than there has been in the past 48 hours or so. >> why is this taking so long? it has been quite an extended battle going on involving several countries and groups.

>> well, that is what everyone is asking particularly those who have been displaced and talking about tens of thousands of residents inside turkey and wondering how or why with all the might behind international and u.s. led coalition with all supports given to the local kurdish fighters through the peshmerga and so forth how they have been unable to capture a town whose inhabitants wasn't more than 100,000 people and empty of civilians for weeks and strikes taking place from the air seem very ineffective and not as wide scale as many exp t expected and when you say how u.s. led coalitions acted when they came in and demolished entire towns and the fact there have been very for want a better word restrained in their approach here to what benefits is it to this battle continues and why it has not been done

sooner and people are growing more impatient. >> and we are from the border. in iraq 45 people have been killed in the past two days in bomb attacks across the capitol. most of the victims were sierra muslims as they prepared for the religious occasion and as we report there are fears more attacks may be to come. >> already violence has struck the capitol. on sunday a parked mini van exploded the street in baghdad and tents set up to greet muslims who will arrive on monday night. >> translator: two men got out of the mini van and came in the tent and drank tea and ate biscuits before leaving saying they were doing some shopping and the van exploded moments after. >> reporter: they commemorate the death of the grandson hussein and particularly significant for shy yeah muslims. in 2013 visitors to the holy city, the focus for the

commemoration reached record levels with some 15 million visiting over the period according to local authorities. across baghdad preparations were underway for thousands who will be on the streets and despite the danger from attack many are ready to brave whatever may come. >> translator: those isil rats are trying to infest us with fear and hatred like al-qaeda did and he is a symbol of peace for humidity and i'm not scared to be here at all. >> reporter: his words are common here but nothing will stop people from coming and showing their love for hussein. despite that defiance they are saying there will be attacks across iraq and this is commemorated from monday night into tuesday morning and this street will be packed full of the faithful. the government says there is an unprecedented security operation and they are hoping that they will pass peacefully. but already the government's

words seem hallow, religious and spiritual nature of days highlighted across baghdad and food and drink is important and given for free and politics plays a part and slogans with pride and it's not just the old enemies but new ones like isil and on three sides of the capitol, increasing phase of attack, i'm with al jazeera, baghdad. are you newed violence in the eastern city of benghazi and fighters loyal to the general have been battling groups along the hospital and the armed group known as the alsura council of benghazi controls large parts of the city. and yemen there is widespread condemnation of the killing of a prominent politician, mohamed was shot dead in the capitol and had been helping negotiate a peace deal between rebels and the government and he was targeted by gunmen on a motorcycle. a conservative political party

in bangladesh is calling for a country wide strike to begin on wednesday, a day earlier than planned and they lost appeal against death sentence and he is the assistant attorney general of the party and last year found guilty of genocide and torturing civilians during the 1971 war of independence with pakistan. the party's leader and another senior member sentenced to death in resent days for similar crimes. and the military is promising to install a new unity government days after seizing power. the u.n. is threatening to impose sanctions as the army tightens its control and on sunday soldiers fired shots into the air in the capitol to dispews protesters returning demand to civilian rule and dock nick cain reports. >> reporter: a crowd marches on state t.v. and come to hear opposition member explain why

she should be the next leader but she won't get inside the building. [gunfire] this gunfire is directed over the heads of the protesters, fired by a group of soldiers. in the confusion state t.v. is taken off air for several hours. the military action continues as armed jeeps patrol the streets. but the new military leaders are at pains to insist their aims are peaceful and democratic. >> translator: we ask to be given some space to work to putting our country on track in the interest of all parties and the power does not interest us and a transition body to be adopted by a broad consensus and duration to be specified. >> reporter: the army took

charge last week following days of unrest after president tried to prolong his 27 years in office. both the african union and the united nations expressed deep concerns about the take over while the opposition parties have said they fear this could be a coup. >> translator: the political opposition and civil society organizations insist the victory of the popular uprisings belongs to the people. therefore the transitional government legitimately falls to them and under no circumstances should be confiscated by the military. >> reporter: armed forces insisted they want consensual transition government to emerge, dominick cain, al jazeera. organizers of election held by separatists in eastern ukraine say he won in the region and already the unelected prime minister of the so called people's republic and

separatists hope election will bring some end to this in eastern ukraine but eu says it will not recognize the vote and we are in donetsk and can explain what he thinks he achieved from the vote. >> reporter: well, he said that he knew that there was no -- there will be no international recognition for a long time, but what he got is basically a mandate from the people who voted for him to try to end the conflict. in their view he has more power and when he goes to another round of talks and negotiations supposedly in minsk he would have stronger position as elected leader and most people we spoke to told us it was not really about the personality or the person they were voting, they wanted some from donetsk given a mandate to try to end the conflict. i think this vote is also mirrors the alienation that has

grown between the people who are here and the authorities in kiev. so that is what it's all about now. still ahead on al jazeera we report from the least popular state in the u.s. on why campaigning is so fierce, ahead of tuesday's mid term elections. plus eyes in the sky, mysterious drones fly over france's nuclear plant and who controls them and where are they coming from? ♪

♪ welcome back, recapping the headlines, 24 people thought to

be migrants drown off the coast of istanbul after their boat sank and searching for survivors in waters north of the striets and the boat was reported to carry migrants from afghanistan and syria. there has been more intense fighting in the syrian town of kobani. kurdish forces battling fighters and the group has been trying to capture the town for more than a month. rebel leaders in eastern ukraine have a mandate to negotiate with kiev after elections on sunday which confirmed alexander as leader of the so called donetsk people's republican but eu says it will not recognize the vote. conflicts in syria interrupted the education of children and hundreds of thousands of families displaced and on the first part of education in crisis hit countries charles

strafford reports from northern iraq. >> reporter: this is the school and the 16-year-old stopped studying two months ago and this is a place of refuge from the people who fled from fighting in syria and the people came here because there is little room to stay in the camps and more than 400 schools like this in the northern iraq and kurdish region. >> translator: i wish all these people could go back to their homes. i feel terribly sorry for their families but i miss school. i want to complete my studies so i can go to university. >> reporter: desks piled up in the courtyard to make space in the school for families to sleep and people who climb on them are not receiving an education either. >> translator: cutting their education is like cutting them from life. the situation is difficult and

it's terrible my children cannot go to school. this is part of our suffering. >> reporter: there are around 50 families staying in the school and came here around three months ago and the irony is the children getting any form of education in this part of northern iraq are actually staying in the camps. this is the camp near the city of dehook around 37,000 syrian refugees living here, this is one of five schools the child refugees in the camp, more than 1600 children between 6-15 years old study here. >> this is dramatic for kids in the higher grades because they need to finish their exams and for them if they miss 2-3 months of school the school year is gone and finished. >> reporter: the local government says it's struggling to build more camps so the schools can be open again. >> if we finish the six camps which we have we will have more than 20,000 units which is very good.

we can create the schools. >> reporter: no sign that the war the iraq will end soon children continue have to their studies disrupted or stopped altogether. and they have little chance of a decent education at all. charles stratford northern iraq. one of bahrain prominent activists is released from jail and detained last month after being accused of criticizing the government on social media and he just served a two-year sentence on separate charges of organizing protests in 2011. and the trial has been adjourned until january. we spoke to him shortly after he was released from custody and he says he has no regret. >> i've been jailed many times and attacked physically many times and this is a part of a series of attacks and intimidation from the government due to my human right work and

due to my work with the peaceful protests and peaceful struggle for democracy and justice and human right in this part of the world, never regret this and this is a struggle and has to continue and this is a cost i have to pay and all my nation has to pay for democracy and social justice. and i was always in isolation and not allowed to be connected with other political president and i was among 4,000 political prisoners to be kept in isolation for the past year and now with this one month and unfortunately i was not able to connect with people not knowing what happened outside the war but again this is the cost that i'm willing to pay to reach to achieve democracy in this part of the world. >> al jazeera is continuing to demand the release of journalists in egypt for over

300 days and al jazeera rejects the charges against them. republicans are hoping to take control of the u.s. congress on tuesday's mid term elections, billions of dollars being spent in a fierce campaign and kristen reports from wyoming, one candidate turned his back on corporate donations. ♪ a long jog through the high plains of wyoming is nothing for 75-year-old charlie hardy but these days the former priest is running an up hill battle to get elects to the senate, a democrat in a republican state hardy and a handful of volunteers go through the mountains in a bus trying to unseat a three term incumbent who spent three times

more on his campaign. >> it should be someone who listens to people and accompanies them in struggles and what you have in washington today and include the senator and people who listen to money. >> vote charlie hardy for the united states senate. >> reporter: hardy and volunteers have been campaigning the old fashion way. >> i am charlie hardy. >> reporter: listening and talking to voters. >> senator's major contributor are pharmaceutical companies. >> reporter: supports expanding healthcare for the poor like hardy and opponent voted against it but hardy is an unknown commodity. >> and why is he doing this and coming from, a very nice man who has a very tough race. >> reporter: you never guess it from outside but this is the headquarters for the campaign of the republican incumbent sno mike and he nor his staff would talk to us on camera about campaign donations and $3.7

million that has come primarily from the healthcare industry and natural gas and petroleum and coal and some don't see a conflict in the industry bank rolling candidates. >> it doesn't matter if you are republican or democrat no elected official will take a stand against the dominant industry of the state. >> mike loves wyoming. >> reporter: big money has changed the way candidates campaign and politicians rely on contributions may be less likely to challenge the party's line in washington. >> it's harder and harder to carve out independent paths when the only way to get any kind of name recognition is through media and media buys mean spending money. >> reporter: hardy who financed most of the campaign on credit cards vowed never to accept money from lobbiests and he may sleep easier but if the polls are any indication he faces a

long road ahead to the election. kris tin with al jazeera in casper, wyoming. southern mexican soldiers charged with the deaths of 22 suspected gang members in june and the first time soldiers accused of this kind of crime and initially they said they were killed in a shoot out with soldiers southwest of mexico. a british banker being charged with killing two women this hong kong, 29-year-old remanded in custody after a brief court appearance. he was arrested on saturday after police found his victims in his apartment. one of the bodies was inside a suitcase on his balcony. the victims were believed to be sex workers. french authorities say they are baffled by mysterious drone flights over the power plants and don't know where they are coming from and who is controlling them but the flights are illegal and tim friend

reports. it's illegal to fly a drone within 5 kilometers by a power plant and in france they are spotted hovering over power stations like this one, 100 kilometers east of paris. no one has claimed responsibility for the flights often at night, a leading nuclear safety expert who advised the french government told al jazeera there is genuine cause for alarm. >> there is absolutely no doubt that one can easily paint a scenario that would be a complete catastrophe because these small engines are big enough to carry small quantities of explosive materials. >> reporter: this is a piece of equipment that you could buy in a high street shop for $700, but it's baffled the authorities here in france and critics say that it's an example of state

security not being able to keep pace with potential new threats. the flights have been going on for a month and drones have been spotted on more than 15 occasions at widespread locations. france has 58 reactors, the world's most nuclear dependent country. the government is playing down the risk saying the plants can withstand earthquakes and plane crashes. >> translator: for the moment we do not know who is behind this. we don't take this matter lightly but not over dramatizing it either and today there is no risk to the power station. >> reporter: the environmental lobby group green peace which staged protests at nuclear plants in france denied involvement in the mysterious drone flights and timing suggests a coordinated effort involving more than one person. whoever it is if they are caught they face a $93,000 fine.

tim friend with al jazeera near france. >> one of the biggest names in american football facing increasing pressure to change and thousands of native americans and protesters protested against the rival washington redskins team and we report from minnesota. they came in traditional clothes bearing innocence, chants dating back centuries and a simple plea. >> change the name! that name represented football in the u.s. capitol since 1932 and in fans want to keep it that way. >> i don't think changing the name is not doing anything to change how they feel, is it? >> change it to buy new gear. >> you want them to keep it. >> i want them to keep it. >> all right, how about you? >> i agree with them and i done think this is right. >> there are a lot of other

names out there and they come from hurtful terms and derogatory but it's a football name and not a big deal. >> reporter: the name means clear blue water in dakota language and they are filling in while the vikings build a new stadium and they told the red skins to come up with a new name or go home. >> the name is defensive but the fact it's played here is the offensive part, the university of minnesota sits on historic dakota land. >> they are not welcome here in our home because it is demeaning, de hhumadehumanizing land. >> reporter: the cleveland indians, the atlanta braves, kansas chiefs and the chicago blackhawks to name a few but native american says none has a derogatory term for the color of

their skin and that is why the protests will go on when the washington redskins play here. >> i like you brothers and sisters representing tribes across the country and 570 federally recognized tribes. i am not, you are not a mascot. [cheers] with massive protests growing, the redskins might come to dread each return to the land of their mascot. john hendron, minneapolis, minnesota. we will have another look at the day's headlines in a moment but first let's show you this. >> listen to that roar. that is daredevil nik-wilenda completing the walk between two skyscrapers in chicago and didn't have a safety net or a harness and first he walked two city blocks up hill suspended 50

stories above the chicago river and as if that wasn't enough he then put on a blind fold for the second part of the walk. you can see more of that if you head over to al jazeera.com, our website there for you on the screen. ♪ does the money come from, who can america trust. i introduce you with the man charged with taking down terrorist organizations without firing a shot election day is two days away. i break down the money pouring into the campaign, where it's spent, and who is behind the incredible amount of cash. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money".