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banpa cabana. >> withholding $127 million in tax revenues. the israelis freezing the funds as a response to the palestinian bid to join the international criminal court. that could lead to israelis being investigatefor war crimes. charles stratford reports. >> the war left over 2,000 dead. it said it was responding to hamas rocket fire. 72 israelis died in the war all but six of high school were israeli soldiers. now after the palestinian government moves to join the international criminal court

accusing israel of war crimes, israel excess it will withhold $127 million of tax revenue. >> they cannot afford the medical supplies, the milk the bread. it's not only concerned with settlement when it comes to employing and exercising judgment they are holding 4 million palestinians, because they want to act with impunity. >> hinders efforts to restart peace talks. >> the reason is we need some leeway to prevent the derailing of a chance of reaching a peaceful settlement. settlement can be reached by

discussion. not by complaints to thing international criminal court. if palestinians make complaints israelis will make complaints and this is not going to stop. >> it is disturbing to hear of israeli government's attempts to punish palestine for effectively signing up to a process which is based on a rule of law. it's mrs. hypocritical of the international community to -- it's also hypocritical to the international community to say this is not conducive to the peace process. we don't normally punish countries who sign up for peaceful proposes. >> israel accuses hamas of also committing war crimes of using human shields. 97 acts of are using its

soldiers. flattening thousands of palestinian homes. and rebuilding gaza could take decades. refusing to pay the palestinian government vital tax revenue will only make that harder. charles stratford, al jazeera. >> bad weather is still prevent preventing rescuers from reaching the airasia wreckage. indonesia's air ministry has threatened to ground the airline because the airline shouldn't have been in the air at all. step vaessen explains. >> between the indonesiaian city of surabaya and singapore. the airline was operating the

flight that went down without a proper license. he says he's investigating everyone involved. >> air traffic control organizations, the airport management. and the airasia. and also, the other airlines. and also the whole play in this air transmit,air transport. and including our own people. if any airms airlines does the same thing we will cancel the license of the route specifically. if everybody is doing it we will cancel everything. >> aviation analysts say it is not only airasia which has been breaching regulations.

indonesia's airline industry last a poor safety record. nearly all its airlines are banned to fly the europe after the national organization not improved since then. >> there were some improvements but i have to say nothing specific or consistent. we wasted a lot of time. >> airports are not equipped to deal with a rapidly growing industry. dealing with only one-third of the current flow of passengers leading to worrying statistics of near plane collisions because of heavy air traffic. many indonesians can now afford to fly. a booming industry, struggling to keep up with demands. instead of banning indonesian

airlines a former transport minister says international organizations like the european union should help. >> please help indonesia. >> european union union please come here, please help indonesia. are you happy that we have these accidents so you can punish us? you oar developed region. your airline industry is developed. and we buyful airbuses from you. >> when the minister of transport says he wants to take bold measures to improve the record why airasia jet crashed in the java sea increasing the chances of finding the black boxes soon. step vaessen, al jazeera. >> mass gunmen attack in the

city of sert, separated them from muslims. the kidnapped men were working in libya to support their families in egypt. the family of a libyan al qaeda suspect who died in the u.s. just days before going on trial is accusing washington of neglecting his health. anu anas al libi is confused of helping the bombing of american embassies. >> anu anas al libi. was accused of helping plan the attacks on libya that killed 210 people. >> the big take away here is terrorism is a crime it can be

fought with crime fighting methods very successfully and civil courts can get conviction is and people can be identified. >> the october 2013, u.s. army councilman doughs, snatched al libi, and he was taken to the u.s. vessel san antonio and questioned for a week by cia agents. al libi said during this interrogation, he was threat bed. he pled not guilty to federal conspiracy charges. he joined al qaeda in early 1990s. but al libi's attorneys said he had no connection to the organization after 1994. al libi had severe health problems including liver cancer and hepatitis. he was taken to the hospital after which his condition deteriorated rapidly.

one of his sons told al jazeera that u.s. officials neglected his father's health therefore hastened his death. >> we hold the ufs government fully responsible for -- the u.s. government fully responsible for the death of my father. >> of the ones rob reynolds, al jazeera. >> more heavy shelling in the syrian town of kobani. kobani is a border city, close to turkey. kurdish peshmerga forces have been fighting islamic state of iraq and the levant since september there. about 200 people have fled. a search to resume -- is to resume off the north coast of scotland for a crew of the

overturned cargo ship. the upturned hull was noticed on saturday. it was carrying cement to the west coast of the u.k. italian investigators have been surveying the inside of a cargo ship that was abandoned at sea. with hundreds of migrants aboard. itharry fawtionette fawcett reports. >> gang ways still littered with possessions, suitcases stuffed with all they could bring on the voyage left abandoned. too great a hurry to escape from the stleafl had vessel that had promised them freedom. cages designed for animals were

the migrants' sleeping quarters. the beds and debris left behind. gathered on the decks wrapped against cold night air as the ship was finally brought into port. waiting to bring them into shore an italian medical team. one of their voices voices. >> we need to create humanitarian corridors free from the greed of human traffickers that prey offs the desperation of these people. >> in the dark and rougher seas after it became clear the crew had simply abandoned the ship to the mercy of the sea. it was a second such incident in four days, after another vessel with nearly a thousand on board had to be rescued close to the italian coast the commander of

the italian coast guard here told al jazeera he believed the crew had deliberately disabled the ship before deserting it in the knowledge the italian navy would perform a rescue. >> it is deliberate. they have no respect for human life. >> but you think they might do more like this? >> we expect there can be other there can be new cases. we worry this. we worry there will be new cases. >> the fear that voyages like that of the ship represent a new strategy for the people smugglers is one that is increasingly concerning the authorities. this boat load of migrants are safe for now but others may not be so lucky. harry smith, al jazeera. >> still to come on the program the once pristine beach on senegal that's now become a

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>> hello again let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazeera. palestinian leaders are accusing israel of trying to starve their people by holding $127 million of tax revenue. israel is refusing to pay after the palestinian leadership officially applied to join the

international criminal court. bad weather is preventing divers from reaching the wreckage of the airasia airline. they found another large object in the java sea. the family of the al qaeda suspect who died days before going on trial is accusing the u.s. of neglecting his health. abu anas al libi was accused of terrorism. from the west bank nazarene al shamia reports.

>> it almost seems like palestinian towns and villages don't exist here. that's because israel doesn't allow the palestinian authority to put up road signs here. hebrew instead of the original ones in air biblg arabic. >> itzar is a illegal settlement. >> there are no signs indicating this road leads to a palestinian area. >> there's an arab trilogy village but i can't remember its name. >> palestinians have to use segregated road networks. under full israeli control not only are the arabic names of

palestinian villages completely absent from street signs but in certain areas under settlements even the arabic spellings have been erased. >> the only major obstacle is the israeli occupation. it doesn't allow us to put street signs especially on major streets and bypass roads in area c which are under full israeli control because they fear our signs would confuse settlers. >> for many palestinians the issue is about much more than just finding your way around. >> the most imminent danger is when the colonial terms are used by individuals under occupation. another erasing the name of the original owners of the plan. this means the ultimate success of the colonial project. >> reporter: palestinians have always said the goal of building settlements is to break up the territorial integrity of any

future palestinian state and these road signs are just one example of how israel can severe connections and people's connection to their past. al jazeera occupied west bank. >> there has been more fighting in bahrain's capital hanama. leader of the shia opposition party, since shia led mass protests that crushed in 2011. the shia majority bahrain is are led by a minority. al jazeera is continuing to demand the immediate release of our three journalists who have been imprisoned in egypt for more than a year. peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were wrongly convicted of broadcasting false news and helping the outlaid muslim brotherhood which they

and al jazeera deny. on thursday an appeals court in cairo ordered a retrial which could begin in a month. peter greste and mohamed fahmy have requested they be deported from egypt. myanmar has celebrated its 67th anniversary of independence from burma. first such event since the military coup of 1962. pakistani city of peshawar, many people there are hoping for a better future. as mohammad adow reports. >> it hasn't rained this winter in most of pakistan. and the sting of a harsh season is already felt here in the north. especially amongst the poor of

peshawar. >> i really hope 2015 will be a peaceful year and my business will prosper as you everything is linked with peace. there will be no economic activity and no business which will affect our livelihood. >> reporter: product is in high demand, he makes ghour a cake made from raise sugar. for years peshawar suffered from lack of natural gas. >> definitely in 2015 we will achieve all of our targets because if we go the last one decade we are facing the problems of the security and the second is the electro-city and then with gas. if we make all this main sector good for the atmosphere of this

industrial and business community, the economy will be definitely increased within six months. >> reporter: the recent killing of dozens of children if a school attack drew the attention of the world to the area. over the last year and a half alone, pakistan has received $3.2 billion from the in fferlt butinfcritics say that will go the bulk to security. too much prioritizing it diverts funds. >> translator: i think this year will bring more prosperity to the country because for the first time both the government and the military are on the same front fighting this menace. once we have peace there will be more investment and job opportunities for the people and everyone here will benefit. >> reporter: but for now life

remains tough here. with high unemployment rates electricity crisis, the closing of hundreds of local businesses and renewed insecurity the most these people aspire to at the moment ask able to keep their heads above water. mohammad adow, al jazeera peshawar. a man has been accused of racism christian leclerk says there is a shortage of burial plots, in this town, where people live without running water or utilities. the baby remains unburied. >> now the line was meant to revitalize some of the most

isolated parts of the couple. a recent mining boom and the promise of more investment is putting those investments back on track. rory challenge explains. >> reporter: 4,000 kilometers of hardened steel through 4,000 kilometers of deepest winter. the amor main line slices from the heart of siberia passing seven mountain ranges and 11 alpine rivers on its route. this is the project that is currently enjoying a second life. >> translator: changes are very visible and they're good changes in terms of freight traffic there's more work. >> freight is what ban was built for. this level of activity is a fairly recent boom. in the early 1990, ban was judged to be uneconomical. many of the mines that this had

been built to service had never been properly exploited. and it looks like in the chaos of post-soviet russia, ban would die a hard deft. >> deep underground the next shift is already working. these days, extraction companies are exploiting siberia's mineral deposits as fras as they can. >> translator: we have huge reserves of coal which need to get to consumers. without ban we cannot deliver anything. our branch line is connected to ban, to local consumers foreign countries acknowledge china and japan. >> a colossal effort involved in ban's construction. tens of thousands of volunteers,

enthusiastic young communists, answered the call to grab a pickax and head east. those veterans are pleased their efforts weren't waisted. >> they said there are 12 months of winter and the rest is summer. there were many difficulties, there were mosquitoes and frost. not a road to nowhere butter a road to development of the country. >> reporter: ban has been promised billions of dollars of investment for increasing capacity. whether that fully materializes, whether ban could thrive in an era ever continuing commodity prices with will certainly know rory challenge in russia's far east.

>> today it's far from the holiday destination it once was. nicholas hark reports from daca. >> the bay of anne is where people came to escape from the city sun bathe swim and enjoy fresh, clean air. look at it now. some in the neighborhood are trying to clean the shoreline. but they can't stop this. which started off as a slow trickle of domestic sewage has turned into a constant stream of industrial waste poured directly into the ocean. splawrtslaughterhouses sand tanneries use the street as their sewer. >> they constantly suffer from diarrhea and respiratory

problems. we have to constantly take them to the doctor. i'm sure it's because of the pollution. >> i took a sample and brought it to a government lab for testing. the results are astounding. this report says the level of organic matter in the water is ten times the saifl level. also nickel and cadmium. this water is not just polluted, it's poisonous. >> slowly killing wildlife. this level of pollution is illegal, yet is urch reported. >> we can't just shus shut down the factories. >> 15 kilometer floating water filter will increase the quality of the water but will thought stop the pollution and will take years to build.

too late, fears this woman she believes too many have become used to living with pollution. nicholas haw, al jazeera bay of vandecar. >> don't forget you can get the very latest on the al jazeera website. website. our dimgit al producer is bringing in your comments from