clashes clashes in the chechen capital as the president prepares to give his annual address. i'm jane dutton. other stories making their way on the news in al jazeera, grand jury fails to charge a police officer in the choke hold death of a black man. kurdish fighters killing

i.s.i.l. what could amount to a war crime. deep space, test flight of orion. >> we begin in russia's chechnya region, fighter fighters attacka traffic post in the regional capital grosne and then stormed a publishing house which was set on fire. let's look at the troubled history of chechnya. two wars, first in 1994 to 1996 and the second from 1998 to 1992 in. in october, fiv

1999. peter sharp joins us live from moscow for the latest on this. what are you hearing, what happened peter? >> well, jane the details are still coming in. we understand that late yesterday afternoon, this was from police reports, a group of about 15 suspected islamist militants took over three cars in a village of about 50 kilometers in grosne, their purpose unknown. when they stopped at a roadblock gun fire took place and at least three possibly five policemen were killed on the spot. some of the gunmen anyway stormed this media center publishing house and that was under siege by the security forces. there were explosions, the building caught fire, at least

one civilian's body found outside. act as a mouth piece for if islamists, posted a video of a man claiming to take responsibility for the attack. and we're still trying to work out the source of that particular video. >> any response yet from the kremlin, ahead of vladimir putin's annual address? >> no, there's not. putin may touch on this but he's goes a lot of very, very important things on his plate. this presidential treas addresse of the union address, is coming at a point of unprecedented economic gloom. the ruble has suffered terribly, down 40% against the dollar and the hard pressed currency funds

spent billions trying to support the ruble, and then the drop in oil prices. putin approved a budget for 2014, assuming that there was an oil price of near $80 a barrel and it is nowhere near there. >> thank you, peter. there will be a federal investigation into the death of an african american man who died while being arrested in new york city. on wednesday a grand jury didn't charge a policeman over eric garner's death. as allen fisher reports, that decision sparked protest. some of you may find the following images disturbing. >> this is eric garner's final

minutes cpt suspecte. suspected much selling single cigarettes on the street. he repeats this cry several times and then the asthmatic garner falls still. a coroner ruled garner's death a homicide. garner's family condemned decision. >> somebody got paid to do right did wrong, he is not held accountable for it. my husband's death will not be in vein. as long as i have a breath in my body i will fight the good fight, thank you. >> grand jury declined to indict police officer in the michael brown death as well, as the

decision was announced publicly, demonstrators took to the streets. the demonstrations were loud. >> i'm absolutely committed as president of the united states to making sure that we have a country in which everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law. >> reporter: the nation's top law officer says there will be a federal investigation. >> our prosecutors will conduct an independent fair thorough and expeditious investigation. our department will conduct a complete review of the material during the investigation. >> policing one he appointed is

hisms accused of brew hihimself accused of brutality. although clear case of police brutality caught on camera may not be enough to bring a police officer to trial. a senior u.s. official has confirmed that i.s.i.l. training camps to exist. monitoring activities there. >> mainly people coming for training and logistic support there. as far as a huge command and control network, i haven't seen that yet. again we don't have a specific, precise assessment of that right now. >> a kurdish general, has called

to adhere to international law. peshmerga has been fighting i.s.i.l. for months. sue turton reports. you might find parts of her report disturbing. >> reporter: and i.s.i.l. fighter lies on the ground, in a battle south of kirkuk. they should take him prisoner, instead what follows could be called a war crime. a peshmerga states he's still alive. in another video, given by a peshmerga fighter, they're seen dragging the bodies of an i.s.i.l. commander around after the battle. the brigadier general says his fighters do adhere to the conventions regarding prisoners of war. >> as peshmerga we're always

trying to operate under international law and protect the lives of soldiers at war. >> reporter: we questioned this. >> that's also true, what often happens is that they ask us to come to them or they approach us in civilian clothes. they then detonate suicide bombs. >> reporter: these peshmerga soldiers based five kilometers south of kirkuk say they are fighting a regular army. ready to blow themselves up killing others nearby, the only dpaitd way to come to kirkuk. the bridge in the distance is now i.s.i.s. front line and this is how close the fighters are to this peshmerga forward position. but this constant flow of people going from kirkuk to their homes in villages held by i.s.i.l, makes the peshmerga very jumpy.

one man told us that all was well where he lived but as soon as the camera was switched off, he said there was no life under i.s.i.l. they are keeping the gateway open because they want to show they're a humanitarian force. but this image will be damaged if they don't eradicate rogue abuse. sue turton, al jazeera south of kirkuk. this will be considered by delegates from 70 nations due to meet at a donors conference in london. at another such meeting $16 billion was pledged. >> pledges mean very little to these people. the men sit in the sun to be warm because there's no wood to

burn. they fled the fighting in southern afghanistan, the taliban heart land. they say they get virtually no support. >> translator: seven months ago we got a bag of flour and one can of cooking oil per family. we wear this turban and they think we are taliban. >> reporter: rosie has been complaining of pain in her kidneys. the local clinic rarely opens and when it does, it has little medicine. >> they didn't even have a mud house before. now they have buildings and they drive armored vehicles. where did they get this money from? >> reporter: there are thousands of people living here primarily from southern afghanistan. there is no electricity, no water, no schools. it is very obvious that pledges and donations from the international community have

made very little if any difference to their lives. it would be wrong the say there are no improvements in afghanistan over the last few years. in 2002 only 9% of afghans had access to health care within walking distance of their home. more than $2 billion is spent on building roads, in 2002, girls' education was virtually nonexistent. now girls make up a third of all children in school. a lot of aid money has been is wasted. u.s. government gave around $3 billion for construction of this school near kabul. it remains defunct because the government can't afford the fuel to power it, and even if it could, the government couldn't

afford the electricity bills. $7 billion was spent in the last decade. security across the country is deteriorating. there have been at least 11 attacks in kabul over the past weeks. history has taught these people that money will make little difference to their lives. charles stratford, al jazeera, kabul. >> earve'africa's oldest leader tightens his grip. warning 2014 is set to be the hottest year on record. stories on al jazeera, at leastn

killed in russia's chechnya region, after fighters attacked a press building in the local capital, grosne. russia has fought two wars in the region in the past 20 years. there will be an investigation into the death of eric garner. garner who is black died after a new york police officer put him in a choke hold but the grand jury has charged the officer will not be charged.

>> afghanistan new leaders, president ashraf ghani and abdalla abdalla are meeting foreign nations. air strikes against i.s.i.l. in his country are not working, bashar al-assad says especially with turkey providings direct aid to these areas. if he thinks about sinking everyone will die. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalists that have been held in egypt for 341 days. peter greste, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy are appealing against their convictions.

zimbabwe's president has accused the foreign minister of wanting him to step down. allowing himself to appoint his own deputies. the 9 90-year-old appeared to be frail at the congress held every five years. >> i expected to bow to my deputy to say, i won the election, you take over. that was wide expectation foolish.

and idiotic. >> let's go to haru mutassa, could he choose his wife to succeed him one day? >> well, that could happen. when journalists asked this, he said why not? am i not a zimbabwe? , with a sermon like mogabe, some could be a faction within bringing down. >> but the vice president still has supporters. what is her next move likely to be? >> well, she could do two things. one she could lie low.

she could apologize to mogabe, she could recentral eyes. restrategize. a new election has to be held. a lot of people are saying that could happen. it is something, maybe it's a scenario that's quite extreme but they aren't ruling it out. this is the state newspaper, this is the issue that will dominate the congress. officials being fired from the party for being allegedly part of the plot to assassinate mo imrvetionabe. mogabe. he is saying the vice president been to a witch doctor to try to get a positions to try to unseat the president. how many people will be aligned

to the plot, the alleged plot to assassinate president mogabe. >> thank you. an international criminal court has given a week to decide witagainst the kenyan president uhuru kenyatta. doctoral candidate in the political science department at stanford university. he says the icc could actually benefit from the case being dropped. >> kenya was always going to be a tough one for the icc. and in my view i think that maybe this ending to the case might actually help the court, in the sense that it -- the court can save face and say this kenyan state refused to cooperate with them, rather than

having kenyatta defy them. so it's bad for the victims of the kenyan violence that this case did not -- was not seen through by the office of the prosecutor. but for the general i think it might help the court save face and therefore allowing it to pursue some of the other cases. >> in india, breast cancer kills a staggering 70,000 women a area year. the government is launching an awareness campaign. we will give you more on that story later. we've got some problems with it. two peruvian women are vowing justice as their husbands were killed.

proasing about loggers moving into their territory, widows say government has ignored course for help. widespread corruption means that the hardwood trees can be stripped. you can learn more about our website the address is aljazeera.com, updated 24 hours a day. a tiny congratulate carrying nasa's hopes of the return to glory days of spaceflight will blast off there florida in the next days. orion deep space displorgs and . a report from kennedy space center. it may not look that important but orion is the agency's first new spacecraft

for humans in more than a generation. described as a landmark event. nasa am administrator charles bolden says it's a return to the glory days of spaceflight. >> i hope the caus causeway is d with cars, and of the early days of shuttle when there were flags of nations all over the world. >> will head 6,000 kilometers into space, the osh orbit higher than the international space station. before orion splashes down into the pacific ocean. for the orion spacecraft its first mission is basically a stress test but it represents a hugely ambitious ram by nasa. in the years to com -- program y nasa.

a whole new era of space exploration . but in the past two months, two unsuccessful flights have taken precedence. for those involved in the orion project say it won't hold them back. >> the important thing, can you manage your data? it's the thing in the back of your mind, it worries you, it served as a way to redouble efforts on safety. >> manned missions aren't expected to launch for at least the next 15 years. but orion's first test flight brition man that much closer to a new frontier. andy gallagher, al jazeera, florida. the government is launching a major awareness campaign. in india.

>> rita singh is getting ready with another session of chemotherapy. she was diagnosed with stage 5 breast cancer five months ago. after finding a lump in her breast. rita lost her sister to breast cancer decades ago, but she never thought it would happen to her. >> i was shocked. i was dead. because since i have it in my family so that was like a real bombshell dropping on me. that was, again a -- >> rita singh is not alone in her fight against breast cancer. almost 145,000 indians are diagnosed with it a year. breast cancer kills more women here than any other disease. most indian women know little to nothing about breast cancer. this lack of awareness and late diagnosis is blamed for the death of 70,000 patients a year.

dr. kabra says many of the deaths are preventible if the cancer is detected early. >> we don't even have an awareness program going around the country. >> reporter: the government is planning to increase medical centers across the country to help detect and screen cancers but working with local areas, they are screened. >> examine them, if there is lump or something we tell them to get investigated and if investigated it comes out to be positive we help get it treated. >> researchers warn that the

number of indians to be diagnosed with cancer is set to double in the next decade. >> the world gathering of climate change leaders is taking place in peru at the moment. two peruvian women are demanding justice. the government has ignored calls for help. the widows were accompanied by the leader of the indigenous group. he called for more protection from gang who use logging as a way to fund the drug smig ling. smuggling. >> we need for peru and brazil to enter into afternoon agreement and monitor these areas, and other countries that

have illegal tree logging by drug traffickers. >> the u.n.'s world meteorological association has stated that 2014 is on record for being the hottest year on record. the new figures confirm there has been no pause in global warming. he says it's an important message for delegates at the u.n. climate change talks in lima. which themselves were warmer than the '80s which were warmer than the '70s. so over the last four decades, every date has been warmer than the preceding decade. the increase is not slowing down. it is actually accelerating.

so and that's very worrying news because it means that if no action is taken, it will be more and more difficult to stay under the target of 2° globally. >> and you can read up more on that by logging onto our website, aljazeera.com. >> the world food program says it's out of money. can't give it the money i last come to rely on. it's the "inside story."