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cease fire in eastern ukraine holds and why the top court has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime. >> thank you for joining us, forces have lost 23 soldiers in the a battle against fighters from the islamic state. isil also took control of a bridge which lies between the cities of baghdaddy. rare artifacts some of the

statutes are 3,000 years old. jana has more from baghdad. >> the iraqi military is continues to evacuate families from the city, in western uhm bar, and fierce fighting there. isil has take an bridge between the city of baghdaddy. that's in that vast western province where tribes combined with military are trying to fight isil, but it still controlled most of the province, and fighting has been particularly fierce. which is not far from the military base. that huge base almost a small city is home to u.s. military trainers as well as it's coalition partners. and there is an attempted suicide boxing attack there as well. isil retook that bridge on the river. they sent that a military

seized from the iraqi military with suicide bombers to try to bomb a gate so the base they didn't make it to the gate, but they did make it to a check point nearby. just a couple of kilometers away that's where at least three of those detonated according to security sources. baghdaddy is where families have been undersong. the military has recently opened a corridor there, they have been evacuated families and either airlifting them to baghdad to avoided the rout to the capitol or sending them on a round about rout by road a new human rights reports that the regional government is responsible for ethnic

discrimination have prevented arabs from returning to their homes in parts of the provinces at the same time, they have said to be allowed to return to those areas and move into the homes of arabs that left. the rights watchdog has warned the government against punishes against all. a further 76 are still being killed aged between nine and ten. a masked man has now been

widely identified. u.s. government sources have confirmed reports that he is mohamed awasni, a kuwaiti born british citizen living in london. by the time the report is turned up at the family home, they were long gone. the police had already been round, reports had emerged that their son was a murderer. aid workers and journalists people cannot defend themselves, and they have not gone to fight. >> he became the narrator

which tore through iraq and syria, as much of the world looked on in disbelief. inevitably the question is already being raised as to what. anything the british security services knew neither they nor the police would comment, this routinely hears complaints from muslims about their lives did know him. the man who few him described him as a beautiful person, enraged as his treatments be i the british authorities. this is the problem we have here, we have created ask environment, in which they can create impunity and destroy the lives of young people, without being able to challenge them in an effective way. >> they linked him with michael the killer of the british soldier lee rigby as

men who had been angered because of their experiences a t the hands of british security. they say they can't talk about specific cases but they are always proportional to the threats. >> whether or not the security services did try to stop them from returning home from london they certainly seem to know who he was. the question, is how dangerous they thought he was because after all this appears to be a successful young man far removed from the stereotype of the isolated loser apparently at risk of radicalizing influences. >> looking at the profile of people, they are wellening gaited and they are socially mobile people.

his parents apparently don't believe it is him but that's understandable. lawrence lee,le a al jazeera, in london. >> isil fighters have destroyed priceless antic witties from the ancient syrian era. the director that this isil video is genuine. some of the statutes that fighters are taking hammers hammers and drilled but four of the items are real. isil has recently destroyed several shrines in order to eliminate what they view they are all made of stone.

mostly -- on what they call mosul. >> how does it make you feel. >> i can't believe it. sometimes i wish it is a nightmare, and i wake up, and it is not true. >> i can't believe it. this is what it is. it is unbelievable, i mean, this one is brought -- was the captor of the world. and the empire of the syrians was even bigger than the egyptians which everybody is talking about. to think that is it is -- i prefer them really destroying them, because destroying them, that's gone. looting, maybe, 60 seth years stunts somebody you know try and sell them again.

avenue a case that's split public opinion in argentina the president has finally been cleared of serious allegations in a federal court. the president had been accused of covering up alleged involvement in the 1994 bombing of a jewish center that kimed 85 people. first made the allegations six weeks ago, he was found dead shortly afterwards. they failed to meet the standard to open a formal investigation. >> al jazeera lat ten american joins us live now from the capitol of buenos airies. this is hugely damaging, was this final ruling a surprise do you think? >> i think for some people it certainly was the president

however, under foreign minister has ink cysted all along that the charges were regard, and there was no foundation for them, certainly the president is greeting a huge sigh of relief, had this case moved on forward, she faced a very few militating prospect of a trial and possibly impeachment and even prison had she and her foreign minister been found guilty of trying to cover up the alleged involvement in that 1994 bombing. now the times could not have been better either. the very last state of the nation address on sunday she was to have been very much on the defensive now probably she was found extremely victorious. >> is this the end of these allegations against the president. >> it is hard to say but the prosecutors certainly can appeal, and public opinion may

not be quite as convinced as the judge appears to be. that the president is absolutely innocent, earlier this week, both judges and prosecutors pucklily accused the president of pressure and intimidation, against the judiciary, of trying to might size them and trying to force their hand. so whether it is right or wrong, there may be suspicious. >> with the latest, thank you. >> coming up in the next 50 minutes the catastrophic use of barrel bombs in syria. the security council needs to discuss why the ban is being ignored. and how governments worldwide are trying to regulate the use of these tiny drones.

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of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. weeknights, on al jazeera america . >> isil fighters have taken control of a key bridge in iraq, which means the city. at least 23 iraqi soldiers died trying to defend the bridge. in the iraq's museum, some of the statutes are 3,000 years old. in order to elimb fate what they view as heresy. and after a case that's split public opinion the president has finally been cleared of serious allegations in a federal court. the president has been accused

of covering up alleged iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of a jewish center. that killed 85 people. two bombs have gone off near a university, and at a bus station in the central nigerian city. it happened just hours after another suicide blast in the town. which left at least 19 people dead. witnesses say that a second pommer who tries to detonate his explosives was beaten to death by on lookers. the u.n. security council is due to meet to discuss the on going humanitarian crisis. despite voting last year to ban them. just remind yourselves what are these weapons. the gun powder and metal shrapnel.

the bombs are cheap and easy to make. puts they want together in an abandon warehouses. they don't lock on to a direct target. off to the u.n. now james listening to the description of a barrel bomb not a surprise that the security council tries to ban them, tell us what is significant about this peteing. >> well, i think this meeting is significant, it starts in about an hour's time for several reasons it is almost exactly one year since the security council did something on syria because of very rare for them to get any agreement. they managed to pass a resolution 2139 a year ago. asking for more access in syria.

they also got a mention of starting bombardment. that's why when this takes place. will be heard from the high commissioner for refugee whose is going to el the us 3.8 million people. but also because of that reference in the original resolution. i am sure some of the countries are going to speak about barrel bombs. and i think because it is one year after that resolution, a lot of countries wanted to spook about the situation. that's why the meet willing be held fully in public. i guess james, there is still a virtue to hearing them speak publicly on these issues but realistically on the ground, they get a sense that anything

will change? no, i don't think inning will change. as we approach very soon, the fourth anniversary on the war in syria. there are some efforts underway, separate from what is going on here. remember, the freeze plan, trying to stop a pilot cease fire, or freeze in apart of aleppo, he is now going to damascus on friday. a trip that he was going to make earlier was delayed. now he said when he spoke to the security council a week ago, that when the freeze was going to start, he was going to make the announcement from damascus. so people are eagerly awaiting james bays with the latest from the u.n., thank you. >> countries are moving their embassadors from the capitol to aidan in the south so that they can be closer to the president who was forced to leave by shia rebels.

more now from aidan. >> has achieved tremendous success, according to his wrong in less than a week, he was able to muster the support of some interesting powers such as the gulf countries the gcc have since their secretary general here on wednesday. they u.p.s. proked more support, whom they considered the president of the country the same came from the u.n., the u.n. has sent the special envoy, to aid and he met with the president. a number of issues. for yemen. the houthies understandably are not happy the leader of the american houthis gave them an address this evening.

he also accused saudi arabia, and yemen as one of subjugation. >> the crisis in on ukraine now, and both pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces appear to be showing signs of retreat. >> out of the city while troops have also been spotted on the move the developments come a day after a fragville cease fire earlier this month. appear to finally be taken hold. >> at the airport which is come under heavy shelling in recent months. paul brennen has our report which contains images that some viewers may find distressing. the battlefields are bleak and

killing places. the druggive path leave as stark impression. the airport is such a place nearly four months of bitter fighting left this whole area shatters. the interior are strewn with debris and rebel, and the personal effects of those that fought and died here. the salvage operation is far from dig kate. >> be the concrete beam falls down, and a body is under it, we have to lift it up, but it is all in the confined area we cannot use any heavy lifting we have had to use a controlled explosion to get at it. >> a group of soldiers have been press gained into excavating the bodies of their dead comrades. >> the task of locating ex-ability thatting, and identifying the corpses of those killed in action is

extraordinarily difficult. as you can probably tell, just by looking at the conditions in which these coffin stricts are having to work. >> the bodies of some 30 ukrainian soldiers have been found here so far. but the process of transferring them to a morgue and then returning them to their relatives received low priority. these were found 24 hours previously, but have still not been taken away. and there were other battles other casualties. in the chaos neither side have definitive figures for the numbers missing in action. the international red cross is now trying to assist. >> duh as of now -- yeah, we are trying to get more across after the transfer, and we offered our services in this

regard to both parties. >> according to the morgue, only nine soldiers bodies have been transferred to the ukrainian side. a much bigger effort is required. across the conflict zone, many more fighters on both sides yet to be given the dignity of a proper burial. at al jazeera. >> the diplomatic convey included the team looking after the turkish ambassador, nato official in the the country. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, which also injured a passerby. south drea court has struck down an adultery law that has criminalized extra marital affairs for more than 60 years. the statute was aimed at protecting values but the

court ruled it was unconstitutional. there have been four previous attempts which dates back to 1953 off the statute books the last time it became before the court was in 2008, and at that stage, five of the nine judges voted in favor of making this change but that fell short of the two-thirds majority required. this time, the margin was 7-2 and the prevailing opinion was that while there may be objections on moral grounds that the state had no place really intervening to such a degree in people's private lives. four women's rights groups this would be seen as a cause for celebration, they have long argued this is a way of punishing women in the past, although there will be some that argue an important protection has now gone, the two judges that voted against one of them for those looking

a t the way that live is lifted here, for those that want to go looking for it, the is ex-industry here is a thriving one, there are love hotels across the country which rent rooms by the hour, in which allow clients to come into the car parts through curtained off screens to protect their identities. so for many people, this law has lost a bit of it's relevance, at one stage, it carry as two-thirds conviction rate, in recent years that has gone down to 1%, and since 2008 only 22 people have actually served jail time. for for them it may be the greatest impact, they have been told they can apply to have those convictions overturned. >> the u.n. commissioner has warned that recent developments could lebanese to instability. they say fighting between

government forces and ethnic separatists in the northeast threatened recent democratic barriers. the international community has seen the transition, as a promise and hope but recent developments relating to the human rights of minorities the freedom of expression, and the right to peaceful protests are calling into question the direction of that and even threatening to set it pack. >> the governments around the world are scrambling to work out how to control the use of small unmanned, i also known as drone politician are asking whether the drones pose a threat public safety and even market security. our technology editor take as look. >> new technology is frequently disruptive, and the proliferation of small 80

known as drones is no exception. this was shot from a drone above the square, during protests in june 2000 think teen. the police responded and shot it down. >> drones like these are cheap, some of them cost just a couple hundred dollars which is why they are so popular. anyone can buy a drone like this and fly it pretty much anywhere. and that's the lack of control that the governments are worried. >> drones have become a standard piece for film makers and journalists trying to have unrivaled zones. they see their potential airline pilots in the united states last year reports dozens of close encounters with drones. now the government is considering measures including a pilots license, bans on flying at night and the airports and requiring operators to keep the drone in their line of sight at all times.

they are suppose to have them within line of site of the people operating them. for few of these are licensed which leaves to the prospect of 12-year-old boys, using these things for the top of box of flats. these smallen gins are big enough to carry small quantities of explosive materials like the flights that have been seen in recent days it was never reveal who'd was beend hoo those over the nuclear plantses the governments are increasingly concerned and are tightening rules controlled with dr. likely to curb the use of drones for all.

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