isil fighters take over more territory in overnight fighting in iraq's anbar province. ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to al jazerra. i am elizabeth in doha. also on the program. the u.s. senate approves a new defense budget expanding the fight against isil. rescuers dig by rubbles for survivors after a man slide sweeps way over 100 homes in indonesia. and we report over how fears of afghanistan future raises concerns overwhelm's rights.

♪ ♪ isil fighters have take he en over more territory in iraq's anbar province they have captured a village 12-kilometers west of romadi in fighting overnight. the head of the governor's council there has called for help from baghdad, that's where we are crossing live to now our coned end is standing by, what more can you tell us about the fighting in romadi? >> reporter: well, it's part of what's happening across anbar inning fortunately. that's the western province of iraq that's the country's businessest province. and it's an isil strong hold. just one village close to ramadi, but it's important because it's part of a strategic route between tribes that have turned against isil have been fighting them and the military operation center run by the

iraqi government and other forces in romadi the provincial capital. it's part of a pattern, isil has gone in and have been able to compete the tribes which she they don't have enough arms, or help or enough of anything. it's left a lot of dead tribal fighters including local police in its weak, that's what happened here. residents there tell us that from the loud speakers of the mosque isil is telling them for the to be afraid if they are not fighting, they will not be attacked. nobody is taking those assurances seriously. it's a marked contrast to the south of this country. >> absolutely. jane. security tight there for shia pilgrims that will be marking. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: yes, and there have been remarkably few attacks, iraqi officials say that's because of fighting over the past few weeks to very much ally root out rice i'll long the

outskirts of baghdad in an area that's parts of the pan sit route where millions of visitors have congregated. it shows you as well how fragment third degree fight is. there are 35,000 iraqi security forces in a and around for the gathering one of the biggest relidge you go gathers in the world. in the west of the country in anbar where you can't send in shia militias and the iraqi military is entrusted the trikes are calling for help so desperate that they are calling for help even from american to his come and help on the ground. something the iraqi government has says will never happen. >> jane, thank you very much for that. interim man police are investigating reports a man was running an influential twitter account supporting isil. according to media accounts the account had more than 17,000

followers and provided news on isil in english that was shutdown on thursday. it's let's go it our correspondent in new del lee. joining us live. and what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, the press conference by the police has literally just started about a minute ago. and what i can tell you right now is that they say he is an engineer, that he has been arrested. now we have to wait and see what more they say. and i'll have reports for that as soon as i can. now, what we know from channel 4, britain's channel 4's report is this man is likely to be in his mid 20s and is a professional. an engineer as the police have now confirmed. he's accused of operating this twitter account that is believed to be highly influential. 18,000 followers and around 2 million views per month. now, channel -- in talks with this man channel 4 says that he

doesn't believe he has done anything wrong. he has never encouraged anybody. he says to wage war on india. or its allies. however, it remains to be seen what the indian police have charged him with. we will get news on that very shortly. now, a security analyst i spoke with earlier said that it's unclear whether this man has any direct link with the islamic state. he appears to be more of a sympathizer and a prolific twitter user. so they are not sure whether he is a recruiter or an operative yet or whether he's just a sympathizer who has been is he december nateindisseminating hes been collected vial a the net. >> how much of a concern for the indian government are supporters of groups like isil, people that might be possibly recruiting them within india itself?

>> reporter: well, the security analyst i spoke to say that isil does not have a huge foot hold in india. that, you know, they don't see any evidence of a lot of activity linked to the islamic state here and certainly so far nobody has managed to prove a direct link between this particular man and the islamic state. know, it will be interesting to see what he has been charged with. potentially had he has been charged with samier terrorism or waging war on friendly states to india. it's a periphery current at this stage because there isn't a lot of evidence of activity. >> thank you very much do that. joining us from the indian capital new delhi. there has been fighting around the yemeni city between al qaeda and shia houthi fighters. the houthi have been expanding

territory in western and central yemen since taking the capital of sanaa in september. the u.s. senate has authorized the military toy spend up to $577 billion next year. the legislation includes expanding the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant from the white house mike viqueira has the details. >> reporter: a bill authorizing american military operations around the globe sailed through the united states senate on friday in washington. it's $585 billion, it does authorize those operations and specifically money for iraq and afghanistan, winding down american military operations there in afghanistan, while stepping them up in iraq. that's $65 million for that. and, of course, the united states plans on training iraqi forces. the iraqi army as they prepare for a spring offensive against isil. $5 million in particular. specifically earmarked by the congress for the american military effort against isil.

also the congress in the course of this legislation which is being sent to president obama, and will be signed in to law within the next few days. authorizing the so-called moderate vetted opposition the free syrian army within syria authorizing the u.s. to begin the training for another two years. you recall before the american congressional elect elect electn october. that expired on thursday. now the congress is authorizing that training program to go forward for another two years, although there are still significant questions in washington and around the world about the viability of that fighting force and the viability of this program and for that matter the president's strategy to fight isil. evening he fight to go find missing people after a landslide. entire villages being detroit and houses swept away. hundreds of rescuers including police and soldiers have been

trying to locate survivors. so far at least 12 people are confirmed dead. more from now from gentleman carta. >> reporter: it has been raining nonstop for two days and that was also the reason why this huge chunk of the mountain just basically came down out of nowhere and surprised the villageers around 6:00 local time yesterday evening. a whole vellum is basically wild away burr i should under rubble. and rescue efforts are slow because the ground is still unstable. 700 rescue workers in the area going through a delicate and difficult task. they can't use heavy equipment right now because of the instability of the area. so they are using a lot of manual equipment going around with shuffles and trying to detect life under the rubble with life detector that his actually can detect heart beats and human breathing. but so far they haven't been able to find anyone alive today.

the u.n. climate sum knit peru has spilled over in to extra time as delegates struggle to resolve differences over how to cut greenhouse gas he missions the u.s. second of state says ideal is an urgent necessity. activists fear the deadlock will end in a weak compromise, nick clark has more. >> reporter: a message to world leader and to delegates right here in lema. just get something done. activists make their point outside the negotiating halls. while on the inside the wrangler goes on and on. the conferencing president trying to work up a resolution before the day is out. >> we don't need just to make a final effort. we don't need to take political decision. we are almost there. there is no reason to stop this process. there are no reason to post point our decision.

>> reporter: just meters from the negotiations another point is made. >> for us it is either death or climate justice and, we demand here in lima that there should be climate justice. >> reporter: they say the delegates and politicians representing their individual countries have lost touch with reality. >> lima hasn't helped us enough. what is happening in the real world before actually taking to the streets, calling for real climate actions we are seeing. [ inaudible ] and this process hasn't absorbed that momentum in a way in which it can help launch the world on a clean development path. >> reporter: animated debate on how the pledge to his cut carbon emissions will work. and, of course, that old row how rich countries finance poor nation to his fight and adapt to climate change. so we are well past the schedule close of business and there is still plenty of work to do. this conference is supposed to

be all about laying down a clear and concise path to paris and, so far it hasn't done that. nick clark, al jazerra, lima, peru. still to come on ooh other al jazerra. kind a commemorates the 77th anniversary of the mass cross. plus. >> reporter: first you see the guns then the faces of the people and then you realize, these are obituaries. we take a look at how artists are using gun to his sends a political message in the united states.

>> my name is elenor and for the last 25 years i was bernie madoff's secretary. >> an unimaginable story of betrayal. >> they lived this incredible life. it just never occurred to me that they were living on the dime of the clients. >> greed... >> bernie was stealing every nickel but he wasn't trading anything. >> ... and entitlement. >> you took my grandchildren's future away from them.

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♪ good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazerra. isil fighters have captured more territory in iraq's anbar province. the group has now taken a village 12-kilometers west of anbar's capital romadi. rescue efforts underway this indonesia after torrential rain caused a landslide at least 12 people confirmed dead and 108 are still missing. and talks are continuing past the official close of business at a key u.n. climate summit in peru. delegates are trying to reach a new global treaty. protesters say they feel the current deadlock will end in a weak-willed compromise. now, the u.n. says afghanistan is making some progress in improving women's rights. more girls are enrolling in school and there are women members are parliament. but there are fears any effort

towards reconciliation with the taliban could jeopardize those gains, charles stratford reports from kabul. >> reporter: her husband was killed by a suicide bomber two years ago. she has seven children to support. she was given a loan by a micro financing project for women. so she could have an oven built. people bring her flower, she makes the bread to for which she is paid around 8-cents per piece. >> if i buy my children shoes, i can't afford to buy them a hat. i am grateful for this project. if i hadn't been taught this skill and lint the money, our life would be even harder. >> reporter: she often leaves her children when she comes to her lessons. these well, like her, were first taught to read and write before being taught a skill. and then given $100 to start a small business. they come regularly to improve their skills, and pay the money back with the cash they earn.

>> translator: before these women have no skills and some of their husbands refuse today let them learn we have worked with the community to encourage them and then their sale their products, they are more independent now and don't need to ask for money from their husbands. >> reporter: although the story offers a glimmer of hope with respect to improving women's rights in afghan tha afghanistae afraid the progress that has billion dollar made could be lost and i am here too meet one woman who is determined not to let that happen. she is one of 69 women members of afghan's parliament. she says despite progress like a law to rep protect women from violence, the government must do more through funding and education. >> the huge amount of money goes to security, toward education, our health and girls education, so this is one of the biggest challenge which we face, the 60% national budget goes to the security issue.

women's empowerment should be like a -- it's not a priority for the government. >> reporter: she has little choice but to be the sole bread bourn her family. but her daily struggle using the skill she has learned relates a fragile beginning of independence for million of women in afghanistan. charles stratford. al jazerra, kabul. let's return to one of our main stories. the fight against isil. thousands are strainedded on the sinjar mountain range, fighting has left them cut off and facing increasingly harsh conditions, aid workers are making a desperate attempt to get them to safety. let's go to our correspondent joining under the circumstances live from the sinjar mountains. we understand the situation is tense there, sue, what's the latest. yes, i have just been talking to the man in charge of the sinjar operation here, it's a joint operation with the per peshmerga and the p.k. k. and the yazidi volunteer force,

essaying this morning they are getting extremely worried. they are held at the moment by a ravine that isil fighters are trying to push up and they are saying this morning that they have been seeing hummers and bulldozers pushing up more and more fighters in ever greater numbers, they have four positions overlook that go ravine but they are loo they arn heavily weaponry to hold back the isil forces, the general is asking for air strikes, the only that can hold them back is the air strikes from the coalition forces, there is terrible weather at the moment it seems to be quite a race against time and as you said there are as many as thousand yazidi now on the sinjar mountains it's a kind of ky top of 65-kilometers long they are getting very few aid parcels coming in and very few able to be airlifted off at the moment. >> sue, i understand you were further down with fighting broke out close to your position. tell us more about that.

>> reporter: we went down to the foot if you like of the sinjar mountains which is where the main commander's base is and they are just a few kilometers from the isil front line there and it's much lower, much flatter surface down there. we were in a town that has the mania seed i church and they are really trying to protect this church because they get -- they really feel that the isil fighters want to blow up this church as a kind of symbolic effort to say once we take the church we are taken the sinjar. and we were there overnight and very early the next morning they started firing artillery and mortar on his to that town really dropping it very close to us and, we actually had to real kind of run for our lives, we ended up climbing up the hull of the sinjar six-kilometers uphill if you like to get to lear to relatively safety at the top of the mountain. all those fighters are still down there trying to hold that line. and it's a completely different line from the one that we are seeing here. both are under attack, both in desperate need of more weapons and more air strikes.

>> sue, thank you very much from that update. that's our correspondent sue joining us from the sinjar mountain. thank you, sue. now, al jazerra continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have now been impresseimpress prison today 35. they were jailed on false charges of helping the outlawed muslim brother hood, they are appealing against their convictions. beijing says 300,000 people were killed by occupying japanese forces over six years in 1937. at noon on december 9th japanese dropped leaflets giving people two option to his vendor or day of a day later china hadn't responded the japanese attacked from several directions, forcing chinese soldier to his retreat. eyewitness accounts saw that for the next six weeks japanese

soldiers carried out rapes, murders, thefts and arson on a massive scale. some japanese have cast doubt on the scale of the attack. while others say the massacre never happened. adrian brown reports. [ sirens >> reporter: nine deeply symbolic moment for an anniversary that still resonates here almost 80 years on. the decision to upgrade the ceremony was made earlier this year when relations were tokyo were still at a low end. also friend some of the dwindling number of survivors. the president said the crimes japan committed here could never be forgotten. but there was also a conciliatory note. >> translator: we shouldn't hate a nation because it has a few militaries. we should lack to the future and work together to contribute to peace. >> reporter: 77 years ago this was a broken and brutalized

city. as invading japanese troops began a six-week long killing spree. he is one of the last remaining eyewitnesses. now 97, he was a soldier in the nationalist army defending the then capital. their contribution largely air brushed from official account. he was paraded before the local cameras, but officials wouldn't allow us to talk to him. staring out from these walls, photos of some of the 300,000 people china says were that is considered here. japan still disputes the figure saying it was at least half the number but either way it amounted to one of the worst war time atrocities of the last century. trade between japan and china is worth many billions of dollars, but at times it seems the two countries are still enemies and it's the events here sieve seven years ago that have come to define this problematic relationship. chinese children still learn about this episode from an early

age. >> translator: my son must know these terrible fact, the massacre can never be denied, history is history. >> translator: why does japan never apologize? can chinese people ever forgive them? never. >> reporter: our interview was abruptly cut off by police he was taken away for questioning and later released. with the president here, local officials are silencing all forms of di sent, even decent ee directed at an old adversary. haitian president has confirmed he will accept the prime minister's resignation. there have been street protests for several weeks calling for both the president and prime minister to quit. dominick kane reports. >> reporter: for days the chance of the political opposition have resounded in the streets.

chicago was no different. protesters came with slogans and a cough town mark what they hope will be the political demise of the presiden president and misse minister. when the protesters got close to the presidential palace a u.n. peacekeeping force fired tear gas in to the ground and live ammunition over their heads, no reports of casualties. but now it seems at least one senior minister is going. the president has said he will accept his prime minister's resignation. >> i take this opportunity to thank the members of the commission, i have agreed with the recommendation, i am in agreement with the report that has created hope for the country. we are going to start work to go put it in to effect as soon as possible. >> reporter: but for the many protesters in the street, this is not enough. >> translator: we are carrying this coffin to symbolize what we are going through with the

administration. no one can save the president, not even john kerry can shame and obama cannot save him. so that means it's over. >> reporter: he rode a wave of popularity among young people to win haiti's presidential election in 2011. he took office one year after the earthquake which killed 10s of thousands of people and left many more destituted. as a candidate, he had promised reformist policies and said his government would build houses for those left homeless by the quake. but that optimism has gone. in 2011, he failed to stage municipal elections and elections for the senate. by next month, the electoral terms of both houses of parliament will be over. last month he established a commission to try to break the deadlock and form a consensus government. but many of his opponents doubt his sincerity. some say he's trying to cling

onto power. dominick kane, al jazerra. to the u.s. now where at least four people have been shot at a high school in oregon that happened at at campus in portland. police are still looking for the gunman and say it shooting may be connect today a gang. artists around the united states are taking aim at gun violence using firearms to make a statement hoping to spark dialogue about the role of guns in american society. jonathan martin reports. >> reporter: in this new orleans art gallery visitors are greeted by guns. some pointing towards them. in one corner there is a jar filled with ammunition and a back wall pierced by bullets. each piece designed to share a personal story or make a bold statement. >> there are 33 individual artists in this exhibition so 33 different perspectives on the issue of guns and gun violence in our country. >> reporter: new orleans has long ranged as one of the

america's deadliest cities a big reason gallery owner jonathan ferrera was moved to create guns in the hands of artists and it's forcing dialogue about it. >> you have conversations about the second amend think. conversations about murder, conversations about solutions, conversations about who cares. >> reporter: the artists from around the country use decommissioned firearms taken off the city streets as raw materials. ferrera had to work closely with the new orleans police department. >> when i originally walked in they said you want to do what with these gun? i met with officers from the evidence department and went and selected 186 guns. >> this chain is made from slices of the barrel of a shotgun. >> reporter: debra is an award winning frapper, her mother was killed in a home invasion more than 20 years ago, she found strength child creating what she calls forms of correspondence. if you ask a question, there is another person on the other si

side. >> reporter: another piece called one on month uses guns superimposed over 30 faces representing the summer of 2002 when someone was murdered nearly every day in new orleans. >> first you see the guns and then you see the faces of the people. and then you realize these are obituaries and taken a as a whole piece it's a whole month of death. >> i am not trying to give you an answer, i am trying to encourage you to look for your own answers. >> reporter: some messages are clear, there is a may have of new orleans featuring the names in red of more than 100 people killed in the city this year. and on bullets, small painted faces. >> under six years old and murdered. where is this coming from? what is happening in our country that this happen on his a regular basis. >> reporter: this exhibit has become the gallery's most popular to date. garnering praise from leaders across the city. jonathan ferrera stresses this is not an anti gun exhibit. but designed to push discussions surrounding guns outside of the highly politicized arena.

he says those serious conversations with can happen in a room filled with art that's one step in the rice direction. jonathan martin, al jazerra, new orleans. just a reminder that that story and the rest of the day's news can always be found on our website aljazerra.com. spending bill. thanksgiving allows the government to stay open, yay, right? but if it's such good news why do so many people in the house and senate seem so unhappy. it's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. these most