security stepped up across egypt. it follows egyptian air strikes on libya. targeting fighters loyal to isil. ♪ ♪ welcome to al jazerra, i am elizabeth live from our head quarters in doha. also coming up. a united front african leaders meet in cameroon to device a plan to fight boko haram. fragile east fire the u.s. urges pro-russia separatist in eastern ukraine to stop their attacks. and 10s of thousands of pima tends a memorial ceremony for

the victims of the denmark shootings. ♪ ♪ ♪ egyptian jets have carried out air strikes targeting fighters link today the islamic state of iraq and the levant in response to a video lease odd line showing members of the group decapitating 21 egyptian hostages. the strikes come at a time of political crisis in libya the security situation there is already fragile. with warring armed factions and two rival governments. isil's ideology appears to be spreading outside of the base in iraq and syria. we'll be looking at why more and more groups are pledging allegiance to it. meanwhile, egypt is getting more military hardware from france in a multi billion dollars deal buying 24 fighters jets. we'll be covering all of those angles as we continue with this bulletin. but first let's look ate egypt

military campaign, katlyn mcgee reports. >> reporter: on roads and highways in every province y jim. armed vehicles like these have been deployed. their job is to keep public buildings and product safe and secure. egypt is feeling under threat. it carried out air strikes in libya on members in retribution for beheading of 21 christiano description hostages. this air strike hit the libyan city. the military says it was targeting positions held by isil-linked fighters but the attack also killed civilians including children. the mission was carried out with the support of the u.n. recognized government. one of two rival governments vying for control of the country. the self declared defense minister says areas of the eastern city of benghazi and sert where the hostages were

first seized were targeted. >> translator: if there were any terrorist group on his the egyptian side and we were able to hit them. we wouldn't hesitate to fight them. it's the same thing that a applies for egypt. for groups that commit such crimes, boarders won't be an issue. >> reporter: libya's political leadership is fractured and the rival government the national congress which is based in tripoli criticized the egyptian air strikes. >> translator: this horrible assault on this terrorism that's been conducted by the egyptian military represents a violation of is off at this in libya and is a clear breach of international law and the u.n. charter. >> reporter: the air strikes came just hours avi i didn't want's president abdel fattah el-sisi warned that it would responsibility to the killing of the 21 men. egypt is already trying to wipeout tear are out of the groups in the sinai peninsula.

not only egypt is being threatened but european nations as well. isil has made a direct threat against italy. the italian embassy in tripoli has now been evacuated along with egypt and france. italy is calling for action by the united nations catlin mcgee, al jazerra. -y just a minute has bought $6 million of flighters from france. >> reporter: hours avi description war plains bombed isil targets. a new boost for el-sisi and his government. french defense minister was in cairo on monday signing an arms deal worth almost $6 billion. >> egypt was the first country to by the mirage 2,000 jet fighters and today was the first to use the new jet identifieder. >> reporter: the contract includes 24 french-bility fighter jets.

their first ever foreign sale as well as missiles and a navel frigot. it's a huge boost for the company that makes it. in which has struggled to seal major contracts in recent years. there is a political element i mean, this type of deal closing the french and the egyptian and the political authorities and in a time where we all have to fight jihadism it's good to have close connection between the french and the egyptians. >> reporter: before monday's signing president francois localho hollande. they called for the meeting of the security council on lib yeah, agreeing the outside world should be doing more. paris says the military deal demonstrates the existing trust

between fans and egypt. it also marks a knew step in egypt's quest to find alternatives to u.s. military assistance. last week russia's president was there presenting his egyptian counter part with an assault rife rifle. now they are getting new hardware as it flexes its muscles in north africa. al jazerra paris. cameroon's him terry says it's killed 86 fighters from the nigerian armed group boko haram. the army says five of its soldiers also died in the fighting which happened in the northern region. the battle coincided with the meeting of a summit trying to combat boko haram. >> reporter: they say they are united. lead presser the central africa are in the cameroon capital to finalize an offensive against boko haram.

>> translator: this section is historic because we moved use it to stopped to the barbaric actions of boko haram. this terrorist group has the military and human resources of a conventional army but use i can a sim a sim he had crick methods. >> reporter: the cameroon and chad are among countries that have committed 9,000 soldiers to be sent to nigh year i can't. nigeria. thousands of people have left their home to he escape the fighting between the army and boko haram. so just as regional countries step up their cam marijuana the group is lawning more attacks outside of eights base. it's not just african countries. the u.s. military is conducting exercises in chad and niger to

train regional forces. as you know, this exercise takes place in the context of everyone facing terrorists from all sides, particularly in africa. and particularly from boko haram. which is spreading terror. but it's in nigeria itself where people have suffered most from the violence of boko haram. thousands were killed in 2014 alone. many more have been displaced. al jazerra. the u.s. state department is urging pro-russia separatists and eastern ukraine to stop their attacks immediately. a ceasefire which began on saturday night is holding in post parts of the east. but fighting in the counsel of in one down is threatening. >> reporter: the ceasefire may have had an effect else, about around here the shelling has continues. this ukrainian army checkpoint guards the main road in the town where several thousand ukrainian troops are encircled bicep

tests. >> translator: the shelling does not stop and although putin said there is a ceasefire it doesn't make any sense. you can see it for yourself this position which we are securing, they said a column of tanks is coming. but we don't know. i have to run as there is not much time left. >> reporter: eight check point you can hear the shelling, they say they'll keep fighting until they take the town an important extra teen i can price due to its railway station. >> translator: you can hear for yourself that there is no ceasefire. it's all for the sake of the television cameras. to show western ukraine that they are actually is a ceasefire. but in fact, there is none. you can hear the fighting going on. and the sniper working in the distance. >> reporter: the fighting is putting real fresh out seats fire the ukrainian government says it will not withdraw their army's heavy weapons until it stops. that's meant to start on tuesday. it also reject aid separatist proposal to create a safe corridor for ukrainian

withdrawal. on the diplomatic front, one of the main architects of the deal admitted the latest fighting was a great concern. >> translator: it was always clear that much remains to be done. and i have always said there are no guarantees what we are trying to will succeed it was an extremely difficult path. >> reporter: in russia putin med with his security cabinet. he made it clear he wanted the town in separatist hands. and urged ukrainian troop to his lay down their arms. some fear the fighting will continue until that happens. charles stratford, al jazerra donetsk, eastern ukraine. talks between greece's new government and its european creditors in brussels have ended with no agreement. negotiators have until end of the month to reach ideal. or grease will run out of money and face defaulting on its debts. the prime minister wants to

renegotiate the terms for the $274 billion worth of loans the greek finance anyonester says they -- he said extend being the currents package is absurd. thousands of people attended memorials in denmark. the suspects was later shot dead by police. from cope copenhagen, nick spicer reports. >> reporter: this is where the man who stunned a usually peaceful nation was killed on sunday. shot ted dead by police some danes laying flowers. authorities say he was likely not part of a cell. but he was part of a community. now struggling to fends off fears that muslims will come under more suspicion. and to reconcile the attacks with the young man they knew. [ inaudible ] that's all. i saw him from time to time. and i would say hello. he was a regular guy.

for me it's sad to see what happened. >> reporter: was he relidge news anyway? >> no, not at all. wasn't like that. if i will expect something like this, i would expect it from other people. not him. >> reporter: after a while young men who didn't want to talk to the pedia came to talk the now ears way. one saying they weren't appropriate. another struggling community the jewish one a synagog guard was shot debt. on sunday, benjamin netanyahu reacted to the news saying danish jews should move to israel. a top rabbi on monday said that wasn't going to ham. >> i wanted to use the opportunity to sends a message from here to around the world. we will not let terror dictate our lives. we will not.

we will continue live as jews and everyone else in the world. their goal is we will go around and be afraid. >> reporter: that message was repeated by the country's mime pinster, she says the gunman appeared to have acted a lone wolf. >> this is a young man of 22. he is a danish citizen born in denmark. he was known by the for several criminal acts, including severe violence. and he was also known to be linked to a criminal gang in copenhagen. but i want to also say -- maybe very clear. that he was not part i've cell that took him to where he was now. >> reporter: the country is now is a moment of grief and reflection. at the remembrance ceremony monday night.

the ceremony was held at the site of the first attack where a discussion on free speech was taking place, it was a ceremony i have remembrance and also as the prime minister said for danes to stand together if they were to come out together. nick spicer, al jazerra coprophagan. still to come on al jazerra. why thousands of afghan refugees living in pakistan are being deported. and breaking the banks. how cyber criminals stole about a billion dollars from banks around the world.

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good to have you with us, i am elizabeth in dough doha. these are the top stories on al jazerra. egypt has carried on the ire strikes in libya in response to a video released on line which apparently shows 21 egyptian christians being killed by fighters linked too isil. leaders from central africa are in the cameroon capitol to finalize an offensive again boca huh ralph the military says it's killed 86 fighters from the nigerian armed group and fight in this northern region. the i'm says five of its joels also died. and the u.s. state department is urging pro-russia separatists separatists in eastern ukraine to stop their attacks immediately. a ceasefire which began on saturday night is holding in most parts of the east. the fighting in the town is threatening to undermine the troops.

it's been four years since the start of the libyan revolution libyans hoped that life would be better after the fall of muammar qaddafi. instead the country is on the brink of becoming a failed state. stephanie deck takes a look back at how we got here. >> reporter: libya today could not be further briefs this moment. february 2011, and libyans largely united inspired and hopeful calling for the end of muammar qaddafi's rule. with a help from an international co longs bombing from the sky. and a committed group of rebels on the ground, they got what they wanted. eight months after the ref lines had started qaddafi was dead. fast forward four years and libya is fractious lawless and unstable. in the words of the u.n. envoy it's close to total chaos. with two rival governments one in the capital tripoli and the other can confine today two

cities ined to two citiesin the east. both backed by different international players. and rebels fighting it out. many civilians killed the country's main airport in tripoli destroyed and the oil wealth caught not power struggle. all western em bass is have pulled out this part of the u.s. bound taken over by rebels lasts year after the americans left siting security concerns, all international airliners have suspended their flights. and then there is a threat of growing extremism. it's been simmering for years many activists, journalists and lawyers killed specifically in the eastern city of benghazi. and now the recent announcement that the islamic state of iraq and the levant is officially in libya the group claimed an attack on the last five star thole open in the capital and isil issued a video showing the beheading of 21 egyptian coptic christians on the beach. egyptian responded by bombing a

city targeting what it says were isil positions and the european union is concerned about the presence of isil just across the mediterranean. many libyans tell you they don't know where to go from here. libya seems to be more unstable and dangerous than it ever was stephanie deck, al jazerra. >> the tripoli based government in libya says it's outraged that a prom he want libyan business men have supported isil. he is now living in egypt a former close aid of qaddafi. he made the comments during a talk show. >> translator: i am with isil. why not? because our youth are being did deprived of opportunities this project called the islamic state of iraq and the levant should have built in the ring font last 50 years. to afghanistan. a government vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in kabul. a plume of smoke has been seen ryne ayesing above the city.

one personperson wounded. thousands of being deported. at the time the pakistani government said it would immediately begin expelling all illegal afghan refugees after a bombing of a school. 1,500 refugees did he parted in january, twice the number from the previous month. a further 22,000 undocumented afghans returned to afghanistan last month. that's more than all of 2014. let's go to our correspondent nicole johnston, she is in just across the border from pakistan. what happens to the refugees ms. they arrive in afghanistan nicole? how much help are they given? >> reporter: well, elizabeth that depends on whether they are a verged refugees or unregistered. if you are unregistered which most of em are around 90% there is almost no help once get here. if you are registered and you have the proper papers you come

to a united nations processing center, you can see the trunks laden with goods and possessions of people behind me. once you get here, you can get medical treatment vaccinations for the children, even less ups in how to recognize and avoid land mines people also get some money to help them relocate. about $200 per person. but it's still a very difficult situation for people. everyone we spoke to here this morning they said they believed they were forced even though they have the right papers to leave pakistan. they is the police came in raided their homes in some cases detained the men and we met another family experiencing that that. beneath the company trees they have put up a at the present time and made a home. he escaped from afghanistan 35 years ago with one son. on his way his other five children and wife drowned crossing a river.

in pakistan he was remarried had more children and grandchildren, all 16 of them are now back in afghanistan. he says the pakistani police detained him and then his son until they agreed to leave. >> translator: they gave us this document saying that you have only three days. you have to leave. what can you do in three days? i was selling things in the street. some people owed me money i left it all behind. >> reporter: he still remembers his old mud brick home in afghanistan and it's or charted. it's the first time his sons, who were born in pakistan, have ever been to afghanistan. >> translator: our first few days were tough. i wasn't relaxed. it was all new. now my heart is. [ inaudible ] here no one. [ inaudible ] in pakistan. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: in the last month more than 3,500 afghan families

have left pakistan. that's more than the entire number who crossed in all of last year. thousands of afghan refugees are entering behind me. and many of them are refusing the pakistani government -- accusing the pakistani government of carrying out raids on their home and detaining the men until they leave the country. they say this is happening even if they are registered as u.n. refugees, and have the proper papers to remain in pakistan. there is about 1.6 million registered afghan refugees in pakistan. the pakistani government has given them until the end of the year to leave. there is also another 1 million unregistered or illegal refugees. and pakistan wants them out now. so in this bush camp people are getting by. children spends their days making up games. and when the winter is over, they'll back pack up the sends and

travel tower their ancestral village. hoping that will be the end of the journey that began more than three decades ago. now, there is an green between pakistan afghanistan and the united nations under that agreement pakistan is meant to protect afghan refugees inside pakistan, the problem is that agreement is up at the end of this year in december. and it seems that pakistan at this stage doesn't want to renew it. afghanistan is very concerned about this, it says that it doesn't have the ability to absorb up to 3 million afghan refugees returning home. especially not when their country has such a poor state of security the economy is in a dire situation and there is no jobs. so we have a delegation, at some stage from at gar stan from the government planning to go to pakistan to meet with the government there to through to talk about it. and try and & resolve it. but in the meantime, thousands

of refugees are on their way out of pakistan back to afghanistan. >> nicole thank you very much for that. our correspond end nicole johnson joining us from afghanistan. thank you. two al jazerra journalist says are out on bail after 411 days in jail in egypt for their fight for justice isn't over. bahar mohammed and mohamed fahmy are still charged with colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood their previous conviction was thrown out and their retrial is set for the 23rd of february. peter greste was auld charge but is back this australia after being released. bahar mohamed has been speak big being apart from his family as well as his hopes for the future. >> it's hard to describe that moment. you can see it, you can feel it. but to describe those moments with words, i think it's -- i can't. it's -- it's finally i am home.

the children was different. it was like -- it was something different. as soon as they saw me they saw knee on the stairs they suddenly jump and we -- so i took them and start hugging them and i think i start crying, that's the first time. my children start telling me, stop going to work. don't leave again. you spend too much time at work so don't go again, we want you to stay. there is nothing to worry. in the case there are no evidence against us, nothing against us at awfully am sure that have. we didn't do anything wrong. so i am -- let's wait and see. this is what i prefer. let's wait and see. i don't think -- i don't think -- i don't think anything wrong will happen. saddam's national intelligence and security has confiscated newspapers. there was no reason giving to

the seizures, journalists say it's a major setback for civil liberties. now, being called one of the largest bank heists ever. cyber criminals stole up to a billion dollars from as many as 100 banks in 30 countries. jonathan betz reports. >> reporter: it's one of the biggest bank heists ever. carried out with keyboards instead of guns. a russian security firm says a sophisticated gang of cyber criminals managed to hack in to banks all over the world. and steal up to a billion dollars in the past two years. >> approximate to pull off something like this, the team doesn't have to be hundreds of people. what we see typically is you know, a bunch of technologists numbers in low 10s if that. >> reporter: thanks in up to 30 countries were hit. but especially in america germany, russia, russia, ukraine and china. the thieves apparently took their time. hanking in to banks' computer is tims spending months learning

how they work, then they took millions by inflating bank account balances transerring money out online or even ordering atms to simply start dispensing cashing, often the banks didn't even notice. >> the reality is, and i think organizations have to be prepared for this. if someone wants to get in, they will. >> reporter: the criminals stole no more than $10 million in each raid of but took smaller amount to avoid tripping alarms. authorities in several countries are investigating. but the banks hit haven't come forward. last week president obama urged company to his be more open about attacks. and to share what they learned with one another and the government. to better fight off future hacks. >> these attacks are getting more and more sophisticated every day. so we've got to be just as fast and flexible and nimble in constantsing evolving our defenses. now, there is a mystery in the skies above mars. the 1,000-kilometer cloud

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