on al jazeera america ♪ kenya's death squad, police talk exclusively to al jazeera about killing suspects without trial. ♪ i'm julie in doha and also coming up, on al jazeera, syria asks the u.n. to sanction israel for allegedly carrying out air strikes near damascus. a million philippines forced from homes awaiting for the storm to pass, it's now heading to manila. and some u.s. protests against police killings turn violent, arrests made in oakland,

california. ♪ we begin with an al jazeera exclusive, for the first time kenya counter terrorism police admitted they do kill suspects with no trial and no due process and they target so called muslim radicals. one police hit man admitted he killed 50 suspects, one of the officers says western countries including britain know about the death squads and simon reports. >> reporter: this is the body of a man, one of 21 suspected radical muslims allegedly gunned down by kenya's police since 2012. and he predicted his death when i met him last year. >> i'm the one who is being terrorized. my life is the one which is in danger. >> reporter: al jazeera's

investigative unit has spoken to the police hit man involved in the killings and we verified they were members of kenya counter terrorism unit and agreed to conceal identities. >> that section was by police officers and officials. >> since i was employed i have killed over 50 day in day out eliminating suspects. >> reporter: britain and america provided millions of dollars of counter terrorism training and equipment to kenya's police, and officers claim western security agencies know about the killings because they provide some of the intelligence in police reports like these obtained by al jazeera. doo you think the british know

that you guys are eliminating terrorists? >> they do. once they give us the information they know and we have worked and it has been worked on. >> reporter: the head of the international bar association says the interviews provide evidence that individuals from western governments are complicit in the killings and could face charges. >> if there are individuals that are found to be not just training but are actually found to have been directing, soup supervising in a killing then there is a criminal responsibility. >> reporter: the foreign office said it was aware of the killings in kenya but rejected any involvement while the kenya police denied running elimination program, simon with

al jazeera from nairobi. >> reporter: you can watch the report on al jazeera investigates inside kenya death squad on line and on air at monday december 8 at 2000 gmt. syria calling on u.n. to sanction israel accuses of caring out air strikes in damascus according to the news agency and activists say israeli jets bombed near damascus airport being used by the military and say another strike on the air base close to lebanese border and we have more from jerusalem. >> israeli military and indeed the israeli government had been very close lipped about these apparent air strikes in syria. however, opposition politicians have been quick to seize upon these apparent strike describing them as a cynical move by the

prime minister benjamin netanyahu as he eyes elections in march of next year. whatever the case this isn't the first time we have heard reports of israeli air strikes in syrian territory. what we understand is that this strike targeted depots near damascus and also understand that these depots had surface-to-air missiles and s surfa surface-to-air missiles to hezbollah and we cannot confirm this but we have heard in the past similar descriptions of why israel may have carried out an air strike in damascus, whatever the case israelis at least publically are not talking. inside syria dozens of soldiers have been injured after opposition fighters targeted officers in aleppo and armed

rebels reportedly attacked a tunnel under headquarters close to aleppo and clashing between both sides broke out and heavy shelling on the opposition held old neighborhood of the city. humanitarian organizations are calling for countries to take in 180,000 syrian refugees and more than 30 organizations launched appeal asking for economic support and aid packages to the nation housing refugees and groups will say countries keep their borders open for syrians escaping the war and 3.2 fled to turkey, lebanon jordan and iraq with sources and infrastructure. iraqi forces fighting to maintain control of the country's biggest oil refinery. in november they retook the complex in baji after strikes on targets near the facility and i.s.i.l. has attacks including bombings to try to take the refinery and jane reports.

>> reporter: six months into the fight against i.s.i.l. iraq's oil fields remain a major battleground. kurdish forces backed by u.s. air strikes last week repelled a major attack by the group southwest of the oil rich city of kurkook and detonated a u.s. made hum v packed with explosives near the pipeline from kurkook and oil refinery of beji, another point in the fighting. the battle where it began before dawn. [screaming] and lasted for more than a day and peshmerga commander say 25 i.s.i.l. fighters were killed. it's not known how many of the kurdish fighters died. these i.s.i.l. fighters were believed to by -- be iraq.

the center of the oil field is hugely important. >> translator: we have intelligence reports that the enemy was intending to launch an offensive on kurkook city and aiming to find a weak spot in peshmerga units to storm the city through work and declare the islamic state of kurkook just like mosul. >> reporter: for almost a century this has been disputed territory and claimed by iraq and kurds and turkmen and say it's the capitol of an eventual independent state. in june after the iraqi army melted away as i.s.i.l. advanced in this region, kurdish forces moved in to secure the city and the oil fields and there they have stayed. in the past few days the peshmerga have reenforced defenses here sending more fighters to the shifting front

line. commanders say as long as they live and breathe i.s.i.l. won't seize kurkook or its oil and in the last month forces backed by coalition air strikes have taken back a lot of territory seized by i.s.i.l. in june but i.s.i.l. is picking its battles and needs infrastructure to fortify the islamic state and the group will continue suicide attacks to try to retake key oil installations across northern and central iraq, i'm with al jazeera, baghdad. in the philippines a million people waiting to return home after evacuating areas in the path of typhoon hagupit and scott went to the east of the country and found one family who just returned after spending two days in a shelter. >> reporter: she has been through so many typhoons in her

57 years she can't even remember how many. her house has been repeatedly damaged over the years and it doesn't have a front door and she has just returned after yet another trip to a shelter. she usually brings her baby jesus statute with her but this time she left it behind to protect her house. >> translator: the only thing i can do is pray that he helps us and keeps us healthy and it's important not to fall ill when you are already poor. >> reporter: the ocean is a lot more calm now than it was when this typhoon came through this area on sunday. now the people in this low-lying community sought shelter at a government building 200 meters down the road and over here is where she lives and it's essentially a squattered village built on top of reclaimed swamp land. inside her house it's hard to tell what is the damage from hagupit and what is the result of previous storms.

but what is for certain there is more water under the house. and her fisherman husband died six years ago and her six-year-old grandson lives with her and wants to be an engineer. >> translator: of course our dream is for him to finish school and if he finishes college he can start earning money. >> reporter: experiences kept her and her family safe from the fierce storms but with each passing typhoon season it's more difficult for her to keep a roof over her family's head, philippines. india capitol new deli has banned the online taxi service uber followed the alleged rape of a passenger by one of the company drivers and demonstrations determined more steps be taken to protect women, the suspect has been arrested. and we are in new deli and sent this report. >> reporter: once again it is a reminder of the women's safety

of the issue of rape and sexual violence in india and we should say the timing can't be worse and looking at just over a week out from the two-year anniversary of the brutal gang rape of a medical student in new deli and the question going forward for millions of people after we are hearing of this news is what has changed and if it changed why aren't people saying the changes the way the authorities deal with the issue and the way the social and cultural conversation is going about women's safety and issues of rape, so again it's highlighting very bad timing but it's highlighting some key challenging that india is dealing with. and staying with india prime minister modi is campaigning in kashmir days after an attack on an army camp near pakistan border and killing 21 people and we are in new deli and sent this report. >> reporter: india's prime minister modi is addressing a series of election rallies in

kashmir state today and this of course comes after a series of attacks rocked the state last friday, 11 soldiers and policemen were killed as well as at least two civilians when gunmen stormed an army camp and staged attacks in various locations in the state, now, the prime minister made very clear in his address earlier today that he would not be intimated by these attacks and voters should not be intimated, more importantly they need to continue to come out in force and cast their ballots, three more phases of the state elections to go and the prime minister doing all he can to tell voters to vote for his party bjp and this development worked so well for him in national and other state elections earlier this year and promised the people development in the areas of infrastructure, education, employment and

healthcare. he also paid tribute to the soldiers and the policemen that were killed in the attacks and asked voters to show their support by coming out with the 70% or more turn out that we have seen in previous phases, results due out on december 23rd. >> china has sentenced eight people to death for their rolls in two knife and bomb attacks this year in the western region, in may 39 people at a market were killed when attackers hurled explosives from cars and in april a knife and bomb attack at a train station in the regional capitol killed three and injured 79. still to come on the program the u.s. sends six detainees from gitmo to uraguay and plus sisters on a mission and how they are breaking down stereotypes in senegal and why it's good for business. stay with us.

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♪ welcome back, reminder of the top stories, kenya police squad permitted for the first time carrying out extra judicial killings and discuss the involvement in the assassination program targeting suspected muslim radicals and kenya police department denies running an elimination program. a million people have been forced from their homes in the philippines because of typhoon hagupit, the typhoon is

downgrade to a tropical storm but winds are 100 kilometers an hour and 22 have been confirmed killed. syria calls on u.n. for sanctions against israel and planes carried out several air strikes on government held areas in damascus province. several people wounded after roadside bombs exploded in the yemen capitol and five bombs targeted shiite houthis and houthis and the movement has become the main political force in yemen since september and no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. also in yemen 13 students, some teachers and parents have been detained by shia houthi fighters at a high school who have been detained by houthis in the

province and we have the details. >> reporter: students chanted civil rule, no military government. they carried signs saying we need to learn but we can't because malitias are on our campus. the university has become a classroom of civil disobedience, students have taken to the streets on an almost daily basis since shia rebel houthi fighters have taken over the capitol as well as other provinces in yemen and say they need to be purged from the university and anger is fueled by the tact that houthis repeatedly detained students. >> translator: their presence is not legitimate, only administrative bodies have the right to follow the educational process a the university and refuse to drag the university to the square of sectarian and political conflicts. >> reporter: but that's exactly what happened. the houthis accused of taking

over academic institutes and not only here but other provinces as well, a member of the houthis says they stepped in to protect educational facilities after the government failed to do so. >> translator: we do not interfere in the university of fairs. we are part of student committees to help colleagues protect the university. it's our national responsibility as citizens of this beloved nation. >> reporter: who should be in charge of safeguard yemen is a bitter and often violent fight. on the front lines are students who help give birth to 2011 revolution and continue to push for their hope for a democratic government, i'm with al jazeera. nigerian police say gunmen freed more than 200 prisons on saturday. police say they recaptured at least ten inmates, it's the

third such incident in two months. a boat carrying migrants have sunk off yemen western coast killing at least 70 people and they say it took place off the port city and vessel capsized due to high winds and rough waters, similar accident in may 60 migrants from ethiopia and somali died off the coast. more protest in the u.s. states of california and philadelphia against police killings of unarmed black men and marched from berkeley to oakland and a largely peaceful protests turned violent and looted nearby stores and police threw tear gas and angry about the man in ferguson and new york and decided not to charge the police in the cities.

california highway police made eight arrests of what they describe as aggressive protesters. in a statement they say during this confrontation two officers were assaulted and sustained minor injury from the protesters and five cars damaged from vandalism which included broken windows and major dents. six former detainees from gitmo detention center starting new lives in uraguay and they were never charged and their release approved years ago delayed by u.s. bureaucracy and are free men as we report from uraguay capitol. >> reporter: so far from the six men's homes which for now they cannot return to but it's also a long way from gitmo and that for them is what counts and they have been treated at two

hospitals before the resettlement program begins. >> he is hopeful now he is out and with proper medical care at uraguay he can get better and rebuild his life. >> reporter: providing men with education, housing and helping them to find work and for now they are just relieved to be free with a burning desire to be reunited with their families. their futures are uncertain but the uraguay authorities are doing all they can to help these men rebuild their lives a long way from home. the invitation was a personal one from the president, himself a former prisoner and outspoken on human rights especially gitmo. >> translator: that's not a prison, it's a kidnapping den because a prison needs some kind of law, some kind of prosecutor, the decision of a judge whoever that may be, a minimum reference to the law, that place has none of that. >> reporter: gitmo detention camp opened in 2002 to detain so

called terror suspects in the wake of the september 11th attacks and according to the human rights group reprieve u.s. acknowledged holding 779 people at the camp to date, most of them were never charged. six years after president obama pledged to close the facility there is still 136 inmates, 67 of whom are cleared for release. but the u.s. authorities say they can't send them home because of security concerns. and their home countries are unwilling to take them back. >> when you talk to a prisoner about the future and raise an eyebrow and say i have no future but i'm happy to say that is what i'm here to talk to him about, so when i go and see him and sit down we will talk about what he wants to do. >> reporter: when president obama signed the executive order to close the camp many believed it would take months if not years but the process has proved arduous and more detainees

expected to be released before the year is out but it's the others, the one whose are actually facing charges or deemed to be too dangerous to be set free that really stand in the way of the closure of gitmo prison. i'm in uraguay. greek officials asking finance ministers meeting in brussels for more time to pay back the multi-billion bail out and greece has an up hill battle to balance the budget and john reports from athens. >> the old athens airport has been billed as europe's biggest redevelopment and the asset development fund recently sold it for just over a billion dollars but greece's biggest body of architects and surveyors say the land is worth three times that much. >> unfortunately the fund is not among the institutions that behaved in a way that protects public interest and has not accounted for costs, how it

chooses advisors and whether it signed independent valuations of the property itself and to whom, neither the fund nor the government have answered these questions. >> reporter: greece has been forced to sell its most lucrative assets to pay back the $400 billion bail out debt and land is the most abundant resource and how it's valued is critical. the privatization plan is not the only thing facing over capacity and it's stuck at the bottom of the eu in transparency rankings and many have come to believe this government simply lacks the will to step up the fight against corruption. earlier this year the government presented a bill that would have legalized thousands of properties that encroach on constitutionally protected shoreline, a public out cry forced the government u-turn and little to dispel solutions of catering to special interests and mp revealed legislative

missteps and high lights a february law which makes it possible for civil servants, bankers and managers of company to escape criminal action for past deeds but he insists that greece lenders could and should do more to cleanup a country that appears not to be able to clean itself up. >> translator: it's hypocritical to be corrupt when no one is serious about fighting corruption and there are politicians in greece who have money in off shore companies despite 2010 law that for bids it, why don't eu ask the swiss or other with off shore companies to open up their records, we then would know who is corrupt in greece and those providing illicit money would be exposed. >> reporter: they are trying to balance the budget under supervision from the creditors and they do not feel the supervision has brought them greater justice, i'm john with al jazeera in athens. two women have opened what

is thought to be sin gal's first car garage run entirely by female power. they believe that fighting stereotypes is good for business and nicholas hawk reports from the capitol daka. >> reporter: they are sisters and business partners. together they opened what they describe as the first car repair shop in sin gal operated by women and specializes in luxury vehicles and there are plenty of older models in need of repair. >> lots of car garages but few reliable and saw an opportunity in the market and we are certified mechanics and there are not that many in town. >> reporter: they have a growing number of regular customers. >> translator: it's irrelevant they are women, i want the job to be done properly and quickly. >> reporter: all of the cars here are brought in from europe

or north america, finding parts is difficult. so when it comes to fixing cars they cannot replace it but they have to mend the broken part and that takes skills. they attended this technical school, students are trained specifically to deal with engine problems found in west africa. >> translator: girls do better than boys in the course and not enough of them taking up this training. >> reporter: here in sin gal women are traditionally expected to bear children and few encouraged to work let alone start a business and one of the biggest mosques says times are changing. >> translator: i'm proud of them and should pursue work and it's the religious duty of parents to make sure they do and follow a path and they say running a garage is not always easy but support each other and

helps their father does too, nicholas hawk, al jazeera. girl power always the best thing and don't forget you can keep up to day with the day's news and developments as well as the day sport on our website, al jazeera.com. the new cold war between russia an e west. russian president vladimir putin says he will not be intim dated and shows no signs of pulling out of ukraine. the war on terror. i'll find out change one of america's most intractable problems. i'm ali velshi and this is "real