♪ i.s.i.l. fighters attack villages in northeastern syria and kidnap dozens of syrian christians. ♪ this is al jazeera, live from our headquarters in doha also on the program leagued cables reveal behind the scenes dealing between the u.s. israel and palestinian authority that they would never admit to in public. australia government slam as report in the treatment of children in detention centers and fifa recommends moving the

2022 qatar world cup to the winter months. ♪ we begin with syria where at least 90 people from a syrian christian village in the northeast have been kidnapped by islamic state of iraq and lavate i.s.i.l. attacked villages on monday morning and we are joined from neighboring jordan with more and what more what are the details of this? >> well according to the syrian observatory for human rights at least 90 residents, christian from the ancient minority in northeastern syria were kidnapped by i.s.i.l. fighters on tuesday morning. they come from the towns of mainly a syrian and christian towns and they are close to the

christian town which is controlled by kurdish fighters which is called teltamid and engaged in syrian and kurdish fighters there and as a result after that the christians were kidnapped. now we understand that these kidnappings coincide with major push by syrian fighters in northeast syria on the border of iraq and syria in resent days and compounded i.s.i.l. in the area and director of the syrian observatory for human rights said he believes that these kidnappings are a retaliation against the kurdish fighters to take revenge, get revenge from kurdish fighters for pushing i.s.i.l. from northeastern syria and weakening their position by kidnapping christians who work

together with kurdish fighters and protected by the kurdish syrian fighters in syria. this comes after a week after i.s.i.l. released the video from libya showing the graphic execution of 21 egyptian coptic christians and we understand that the fate of these, around 90 syrian christians were kidnapped in the morning is still unknown until now. >> thank you for the update and we are live in aman. and also getting news of another kidnapping, this one happened in afghanistan and afghan officials aarmed gunmen of foreign origin kidnapped 30 people from ethnic community in southern afghanistan and they were taken from a bus in zobol province on monday afternoon. al jazeera investigative unit given leaked documents which show how they put pressure on palestinian leadership over the

bid for the u.n. membership around the time the p cia was trying to have contact with hamas despite an official band and the spy cables we have our exclusive report. >> reporter: the spy cables show us just how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority play political games with each other. >> the general conference has voted to admit palestine as member of unesco. >> unesco gave the state full membership in 2011 and abbas sought recognition since and they talk how they fight the policy to the highest levels and one 2012 cable reveals a secret call from the white white house to the leader and president obama threatened president abbas if he went ahead with the u.n.

bid and just as the u.s. was pressuring palestinian authority it now emerges they were seeking contact with hamas, a group it considers a terrorist organization. a secret cable reveals a cia operative in east jerusalem to ask a south african counterpart to put them in touch and says the cia is desperate to make in roads in gaza and recommends they help and doing so they will benefit from the interaction and have requirements of the cia so in other words they would know what the cia is up to. meanwhile in 2009 south africa spy chief gets a direct phone call from assad boss mayor and he is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders staff to verify the number later a meeting, and he wants south africa to vote down the gold stone report a u.n.

fact-finding mission after the 2009 gaza war and prominent south africa led it and crucially it said israel committed numerous war crimes and major says the palestinian leader abbas privately supports israeli position and also wants south africa to vote it down according to the p top man he felt voting in favor of the gold stone report would play in the hands of hamas and weaken his position. in this way the cables reveal how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are privately forming alliances they would never admit to in public. the palestinian authority has been reacting to the leaks and al jazeera joins us live from the occupied west bank mts what are the palestinians saying about the revolution that president hamas didn't want the case against israel made in the gold stone report to go further?

>> well, i'm standing right outside the headquarters of the pchl pchl -- plo where we met with the doctor a senior official with the plo and we brought the substance of these leaked documents to her and we asked her just that very question which is what is her response to the an assertion to put pressure on the south african government to vote against the gold stone reports and the doctor very quickly dismissed this claim saying she believed it was very unlikely and more specifically she didn't think that the israelis would be involved in that way. however, the reason this is being given some weight or credence is we have to consider

the time that this leaked document comes from from 2009 when relations between hamas and the other was at an all-time low and it was ex speedent for them not to go with the war charges against israel because that would in some way bolster hamas in gaza whatever the case we have been saying the doctor from the palestinian authority is denying this here is what she told us. >> i'm not aware of this and i am surprised. i don't think that president hamas deployed or needed this type of lobbying at all and therefore i think if israelis volunteered to do things on their own doesn't mean they are acting on behalf of anybody and they are capable of doing anything. >> reporter: well, we have also been speaking to gaza hamas a

senior official about cia trying to get in touch with hamas but he says that never happened. >> i'm surprised to hear such news because i think until now we don't have official communication with the cia or united states administration i can say that in the last four or five years we met with americans and some of them are from the academic sector and some say they are very close to the united states administration but until now someone say he is coming officially from cia or from united states or from the official department of the united states. >> so mts revolution the u.s. government trying to reach out to hamas and have been in conversation and placed in the hands of the plo, what are they saying about this? >> well what is interesting is

that the doctor again a senior palestinian official who we have been speaking to had a very different view than the one we just heard and said while they had no concrete evidence they did believe that at some point there was some sort of coordination between u.s. security apparatus or intelligence with the hamas leadership in the gaza strip. however, she went on to say that in light of that she questioned why the u.s. maintains hamas' status as a band organization or a terrorist organization and in her words following israel's precedent and went on to say this connection between the cia and hamas really just underscores the fact the u.s. does see hamas as a partner within this entire conflict and indeed within this region but again questioning why they continue to keep hamas on that

terrorist list. >> thank you very much indeed. now australia human rights has a scathing report on conditions faced by children being held in immigration detention centers but the government has rejected its findings calling it a political stitch up and andrew thomas has more. >> we now live in sidney and studying to be an accountant but before he was given a visa as a refugee australia government held him for a year in prison-like detention centers and he was just 14 years old and alone and he came to australia but boat and coped in detention but saw other children who did not. >> i saw kids who were cutting and it's not something i could forget. we are damaging those kids. we are damaging mentally and we

are damaging physically. >> reporter: his experience is similar to many detailed in a human rights report on immigrant children detained by australia's government. >> our findings are deeply shocking. we found that all the medical evidence confirmed that detention causes and compounds mental health disorders among children. >> reporter: more than a third of children detained require psyche at -- psychiatric and many self harmed and on camera on tuesday officials from australia department confirmed a 16-year-old detention threw herself off a building last week. this is a shocking report, only australia it says automatically locks up immigrant children serious damage is being done to those it does and shocking too has been the government's reaction to the report, this it says is a travesty.

more children were in detention under the previous government than current one and should acknowledge success in stopping boats of refugees from coming to australia in the first place. >> this inquiry is a political stitch up a political stitch up by members of this government. >> i totally reject any suggestion that this report is a political exercise, the facts frankly speak for themselves and this report speaks for itself. >> reporter: australia policy towards refugees is deeply political and elections won and lost on the issue and children are among those who feel the consequences andrew thomas sidney. >> much more to come on the program and greece hands out reform plan to its members. nigeria taxes auto imports to

encourage auto manufacturing but will it price people out of the market?

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2009 gaza war and hamas has also denied it has any contacts with the cia and documents obtained by al jazeera say the american spy agency tried to establish contact with the group that it considers a terrorist organization australia prime minister launched a scathing attack on the head of the human rights commission after a damaging report for children in detentions centers and talks about sexual assault, self harm and severe mental disorders and they say it's a political stitch up. greece submitted its reform agenda to international lenders on time. it includes promises to crack down on corruption and smuggling and plans to assist people with med car care and housing and john is in athens with the details. >> reporter: the government has now submitted the list of what it wants to do over the next four months if this is approved by the euro group then this will be in effect the governing

agenda up until june. now what the government has told us is that this list contains alleviation of the humanitarian group caused by austerity and contains possible reform of labor law so that we have a raising of minimum wage back to what it was before the crisis and collective bargaining brought back to the legal system which is something may the unions have wanted but of course we also expect it to contain things that the government hasn't been quite as public about but it does need to contain many of the reforms that the europeans have asked for and in which the finance minister say it will contain such as better tax collection perhaps an independent tax authority created out of the present one, we would expect to see some sort of policy planning for privatization even though this is a left wing government that is not keen on cutting down the

state and doing what it calls fire sales and public property we do expect also to see reform of the public sector which this government has said it wants them to take in order to make the public sector more efficient and more productive in order to help the economy grow again, while we don't yet have the full list of things in brussels we will see spending measures to alleviate suffering and also reforming to generate more growth in the economy. officials for futbol governing body recommended that the 2022 world cup in qatar should be played in flov and december to avoid the extreme summer heat and fifa task force spent three days in do what and meeting with officials for the tournament and recommendations is expected to be ratified by fifa executive committee in march and lee weldings reports. >> reporter: fifa has exactly what it wanted from the start,

it was always likely to be a november december world cup. what they decided to do in october 2013 at the executive mitty meeting was to have a period of discussion that made europe and european clubs feel they had their voice and had their say but not much of an impact because there wasn't another time the tournament could be played. the winter olympics, of course in january, february of 2022 the clash is there and assured ioc there would be no clash. then you have the heat in summer which is always going to be extremely different, near impossible to play the world cup in qatar over that period. you also have legally fifa has no right to play in 2023 so november, december was going to be the one and how much noise and fuss made by the european clubs and had to accept this but accepted it extremely reluctantly. >> reporter: ten people killed and 12 others injuries in iraq

city of fallusia and egyptians have arrived home and many of them have gone out of tunesia, the neighbor and many more are still waiting on the libya side of the border hoping to cross and cairo urging citizens working in libya to leave. al jazeera has obtained an audio recording where egypt interior minister is told to use force against protesters and conversation come from a meeting last year before rallies in support of the deposed president mohamed morsi and rebecca reports. >> reporter: every friday they turn out across egypt and november 28th last year was no

different. thousands demonstrated across the country carrying pictures of deposed pictures mohamed morsi and chanting slogans from a coup that forced him from power in 2014 but didn't make it far because security forces waiting for them and some opened fire at least four protesters were killed, dozens were injured a leaked recording obtained by al jazeera has new insight into events of that day and comes from a meeting of senior security officials in the days leading up to the protest, the gathering was chaired by interior minister mohamed abraham who gives clear instructions how protesters should be dealt with as they left friday prayers.

an abraham was blunt on how it should be dispersed. rights groups criticize the use of excessive force by egyptian forces and mass arrest of journalist and activists since the coup. thousands are being held indefinitely without charge or trial while others are being prosecuted under new antiprotest laws and in cairo they handed down a prison sentence, one of

the leaders for the 2011 revolution for an unauthorized demonstration. >> let's be clear, this is not justice, this is a vendetta and aimed at ripping the heart out of protest movements and shows there is no room for protest today and no room for dissenters and no room for a different political opinion and he was seen as public enemy one for protesters and will be behind bars for challenging egyptian authorities. >> reporter: it appears that fridays in egypt will bring more protests and more deaths rebecca with al jazeera. in yemen hadi has all staff working at the presidential palace in aiden and told them to return to the homes in the north and trying to build up a power base in the south and mohamed has more from aiden. >> reporter: just a few days after his arrival to aiden, president hadi made it clear to supporters and to the outside

world when he withdrew his resignation officially and now he has asked the ministers to come to aiden but many of them are being prevented by the houthis, one of them tried to drive to aiden yesterday and was arrested by the houthis 100 kilometers south and sent back to the capitol. in the face of this situation hadi is waiting to see if they can make it here otherwise his entourage are telling us he probably will appoint a provision of government here in aiden and at the same time president hadi is meeting with top security advisors and governors and is making some security arrangements in the presidential compounds to make sure no disruption happens, those arrangements consist of sending back all the staff members that belong to the sector or northern province back home because some of them might be infiltrated in the

presidential compounds and some may be loyal to the former president or houthis and support from the outside world from the powers that gcc announced support and asked them to rally behind them and those are positive signs for him and we also understand some of the diplomatic nations may be thinking of shifting to aiden and that is more signs as i said of hadi probably being successful in his efforts to make a fresh start from yemen and aiden. >> reporter: president of indonesia says execution of 11 drug traffickers will not be delayed and the comments coincide with an indonesia charges rejection of an appeal by two australians against their execution. and also warned foreign countries not to interfere with indonesia capitol punishment laws. district in sierra leone capitol free town is in lock down after

new cases of ebola emerge. the national ebola response center says the neighborhood will be under quarantine for 21 days and 6 cases discovered there last week sierra leone has been hit hard by the outbreak, more than 10,000 cases have been reported in the country. now buying a car in nigeria is a lot more expensive and government has a tax of up to 70% on new and used imported cars as a way to try and boost local manufacturers and we report that others worry high taxes will hurt the used car industry. >> looking after his investment he saved for years before buying this used car imported from europe. he needs a new one but like many other nigerians he is afraid he cannot afford it. >> maybe the last car i will

drive in my life from what the government is trying to do because i can't see me here with the little amount of money i'm getting to buy another car when it is implemented. >> reporter: but the government is pushing ahead with new auto policy and raises tariffs on imported cars up to 70%. >> in the future we will not be able to afford what we need with this class or practice of crude oil so if we have pressures we will reduce the amount of money we use to put to vehicles. >> reporter: local auto industry is upbeat factories are in a race to cash in. assembly lines that are dormant for a long time are producing again. >> we actually have capacity in access of the requirements of the market. now we believe that as the market opens up supported by the new government policy we will

also progressively expand and grow our operations to meet any potential increases in demand. >> reporter: and they are looking beyond the local market. nigeria spend $5 billion every year importing cars and spare parts and with a population of 117 million and local factories like this want a share of the lucrative market not only that they also want the markets across the borders. but used car dealers say the new policy will hurt the industry because car manufacturers here cannot meet local demand. >> you don't want a business that you lose your capitol and is going to have adverse effect on our business because these cars, in fact, it will inflate every sector of the economy. >> and the new policy and the growing local demand many

nigerians will say they are either driving their last cars or may not have the opportunity to buy a new one any time soon mohamed with al jazeera, nigeria. >> more news on our website on al jazeera.com. . >> hello, i'm ray suarez, patients at a los angeles hospital - no telling how many - were exposed to a super-bug, and north carolina has confirmed a dozen cases of carbon fm resistant entero bacteria, a bacterium resistant to standard drugs. >> that didn't just make people sick, it may have killed them. it's called cre and reported to be in all but three u.s. states and is the latest in a