on al jazeera america >> this is the true definition of tough love >> hallow, i am lauren taylor. a senior commander in syria is killed. egypt's interior minister is sacked. representative of the rival government sit around the table to try to resolve their differences. and and the jaw bosh that shows our ancestors walked the earth earlier than we thought.

>> . >> we start in syria where an explosion in the province has killed a senior commander of the al quaida commander. there are conflicting reports about who was behind the attack. tell us what the latest information on this death is? >> well, like uh youngs misdemeanor a lot of conflicting reports but what we understand is that al quaida's syria branch, they are saying that he was killed in the explosion of the northwestern province. according to sources he was killed in a drop strike and kills on the 27th of february

now it is very hard for us to independently confirm this, is what we suns that the ecoalition is denying that they carried out or conducted any air strike in the last 24 hours. way checked the press releases that were sent out on the 27th of february, there was no mention of a strike. a lot of conflicting reports. if in fact the coalition wasn't responsible this wouldn't have been the first time they targeted them. now there is a global fight against the levant, but the u.s. has carried out strikes against an al quaida operate within there. it is known as the movement, and they haven't shied away from the fact that they have hit the movement in the past. so a lot of conflicting reportsreports are senior demander whose are meeting at the time. >> remind us what role or

position the front takes in the syria conflict, and why this is cig can't in that seasons? >> well, really one of the most powerful players on the ground, it is al quaida's branch they don't shy away from this, they have been on the front lines fighting the syrian government, in one way or the other, this is a popular movement a lot of siren yeahs see this movement as the only one left fighting. that the syrian government, but the timing this is very significant, only just a few days ago they declared an all out war against the moderate group. and the hazam brigade is tied to the west they even selected the movement to be part of it's training program. so this group was forced to disban, because it came under attack. but more importantly, there have been reports that nostra

are contemplating disassociated themselveses with al quaida, because we know that they are on the terrorism list, the u.s. considers this a terrorist group, and there seems to be a rift within the organization now whether or not this explosion has anything to do with that it's not for us to speculate. to get some diplomassy. >> there's been a major reabsolutely of egypt's government president assisi has sacked six ministers. the biggest casualty is the interior minutester. who has been there since before aceci took power.

reports. >> and later won presidential elections eight ministers have been sacked including the ministers of tourism the minister of interior. has appointed in the double minister under the first elected president supporters accused the minister of collaborating with the military to orchestrate a coup against the president. won 400 to 800 people were killed in cairo's and the squares on security forces

disbursed the protest camps in august went 13 human rights watch into crimed against humanity, being carried out against egyptian officials. under ibrahim they have been accused of carrying out torture and human rights abuses in an attempt to crack down on dissent. the minister survived the blast in cairo in september, which ibrahim described as an assassination attempt on his life. >> featured in a number of audio leaks in which he helped the military hide the whereabouts of the president and obstruct the course of justice he was also heard giving the bone light to use automatic weapons. they became under the spotlight after a stampede in february with at least 19 fans. there was a public outcry t

government have traveled to the talks the u.n. special envoy is broken the negotiations. he joins us live now do we get any sense of progress so far. >> the special representative

for libya said in a prez conference just a while ago that this is a historic moment that the libyans should see this opportunity to stitch together a political deal that would pave the way for the libyans to have a national unity government, because of the mistruss between factions in libya the talk which is are taking place this building behind me are taking place in two separate rooms where you have the international recognized government and the other room you have the tripoli based government, and then the u.n. envoy shuttling back and forth to try and see if they are both willing to move forward, he is confident in the coming day that he can convince both factions to owe on a road map. >> the international concern isn't there about the

situation in libya and the unraveling tell us more about what is at stake here. >> well, the biggest concern is the longer the fighting continues this h create further anarchy and instability that can spill over and threat. whole region, at the same time the basically the it fooing is weakening both the tripoli government, and groups are affiliated with the islamic state in the iraq and levant, are expanding. we are seeing them now taking control of different areas particularly in the eastern part of the country and this is a big concern for europe, which is not really far away from libya so now the general sentiments among the international community is it's time to -- there's two main factions to stitch together a political settlement, that can contain

the situation in libya, and put an end to this violence that has claimed the lives of thousands of people and displaced dozens of thousands of libyans. >> thank you very much, indeed saudi arabia has empressed his concern at iran's role in the fight against isil accusing it of taking over iraq. arraignian units are reported to be playing a prop talent role on decrete. occupies a kooistra teenic location, and was captured last summer, more on what has been a slow and steady advance the battle cry of this fighter, this near samara the base of operations on the eastern front of the battle

for decrete, key players are iranian backed katab and command center nearby, interior minister mohamed, a leader of the batter core militia confer whose is given control of the hezbollah brigade. they have combined with forces and army units for the biggest events since isil seized back in june. this is a trip wire for a roadside bomb layed by isil. explosive teams detonates this one, one of hundreds they found along the road. 30-kilometers southeast iraqi security forces make their way past abandoned fields. >> we are still advancing we have reached 50-kilometers through the rough terrain and dessert, leading to decrete,

by the help of god we have expelled isil for more than 15 agricultural villages, as you can see, it is farmland and dessert, we have expelled isil from these villages. >> houses and schools are empty here, they have left their crops in the fielding security forces have detonated more than 200 roadside poms sometimes by shooting at them. isil built sand berms to make ask advance, the bulldozers are dispantingling them. it's been four days and fighters are stiller cluing villages along the way. it's clear that isil is on the defensive, but the main battle won't begin until troops reach the city.

pushing on, talks on south sudan are extended after a deadline for a peace deal passes. and in sport his bid for fifth team as fifa president. is picking up. to ukraine after a day of morning has been. al jazeera is is there and september this report. the rescue workers entered the mine once again, hoping to end foo survivors they emerged black faced. with only the dead. four bodies one was crushed.

>> automobile 33 miners dead. it is hard to get there the debris is quite spread out. >> is survivors enter day two of recovery, some of them, hopefully. >> we have the best doctors in the world, he says they will put everyone back on their feet. but that optimism belies the seriousness of their injuries. they suffered really badly when they arrived they were seriously wounded because the explosion was so deep. one had 100% burns, two had 70 to 80% and all five miners airways were badly damages. every day though go into the mine not sure they will come back. it is the biggest and because it's naturally high levels of methane gas, it's deadliest. it has seen seven major

accidents killing 300 miners. each time afterward hundreds of miners return to the shaft. once again as recue workers return the bodies of lost miners the local government, this time the people's republic appoint admit tee to investigate ukraine's military says one of the troops has been killed and another wounded in fighting fighting with prorussia separatists increasing the size of it's armed services by a third, and in the u.s. republican and democratic leaders have urged president obama to authorize aid for ukraine quickly. a former ukrainian finance minister wanted for fraud has been arrested in spain. he has been on the run since august. he is accused of embezzling more than $70 million of

public money these talks between the south sudan rival leaders will continue after a deadline striking a power sharing deal passes without an agreement being reached. the president had been holding talks with rebel leader in ethiopia, the negotiations are described as the last chance to end 14 months of civil war. al jazeera says the deadlock was expected. >> this comes as no surprise, the warring parties came to the talks with very hand line positions they seem to have agrees on nothing still a lot of contentioninging and poor churring the security arrangement, who will control who will provide security detail when he returned the armies will they remain separate will they be

reintegrated they also disagree on the parliament, a special envoy hazam said that they are at a deadlock, the deadline has been expanded by another day lit be be interesting to see what happens if they don't agree will they involve the african union, will there be another extension, everything is still up in the air. >> is at least 45 people have been killed in northeast nigeria. gunman stormed a village in the uncan's state the raid came as they were attending morning prayers. chad's president threatened to kill the leader if he doesn't give himself up, and boko haram will be wiped out. he is believed to be in the nigerian town until it was liberated last month. he ran away but we know where

he is. it is in the his interest to surrender, if not he will have the same fate as his come patriots. hit colleagues have the same fate. we are going to destroy bo caha ram, we are going to win not only the battle but the war. the attack happened at a public evend, and has led to questions about security measures. >> the u.s. ambassador to south korea had taken life to seoul with gusto walking his dog, giving his son a korean name. so the image of him being rushed to the hospital on thursday, after he was slashed

at a public event, is shocking officials condemn the attack, he told reporters that he was recovering. >> he is as good to be expected, and his spirit is strong. >> but the attack is renewing questions about whether the u.s. is doing enough to protect it's diplomating and politically unstable countries that can be difficult after ambassador was killed in 2012, long running problems with diplomatic security offices as well as disagreements on how proly diplomates should move around in countries such as libya and iraq, their freedom is structures. regardless of where he is, secretary of state john kerry always traveled with a full security team, experts say the solution is not an easy one. >> it is a double edged sword

when you are protecting abroad. they need to get out and mingle and do speeches and trying to evaluate on a day by day basis the level of security that is needed required adequate resources to ensure that. he was slashed allegedly by this man. not the first time kim has tried to harm a diplomate. back in web, he was convicted of throwing a concrete block at the japanese ambassador to south korea. not clear yet what charges he will face this time. the state department said he had undergone surgery and is in great spirits but it is not clear if he will return to work with the same gusto that he displayed in the first few months on the job al jazeera washington. , and parents of a black teenager who was killed by a police officer in the u.s. city of ferguson last year, say they intend to file a

civil lawsuit. michael brown was unarmed when he was shot by police officer darren wilson last august. the killings sparks months of violent protests. we feel, and we have always felt from the beginning that officer darren wilson did not have to shoot and kill may brown jr. in brad daylight in the manner that he did that he had other options available to him and that he chose deadly force as his option, and we plan to demonstrate that the choice to use deadly force was unreasonable, and unnecessary, the family of argentine prosecutor says independent forensics tests prove that he was murdered, in january, he was under to dead in his apartment hours before he was due to testify argentina's president, he had been expected to accuse the

president in covering up an bombing in 1994. his would have gave this statement. >> i want to let you know that he did not have an accident. he did not commit suicide, he was killed. and his death is an assassination of unnoun proportions that deserves answers and in my opinion oen the part of the institutions of the republic the family may not get the answers they are looking for. >> you want to take a quiz on the argentine public opinion almost everyone thinks there will not be any concrete answers to this, and whoever may have pulled the trigger will get away with it that's what most people think, there is still no indication as to who could have killed him

there has always been suspension that he did not commit suicide as pros it cooers had suggested. several hollywood thrillers but no hard evidence pointing the finger as to who pull the trigger. now his widow also said that the evidence of an independent team she hired indicated that the prosecutor did not die instantly, and that he had suffers before dying. so pretty dramatic information coming out at this hour. >> still to come, why the u.k. anti-terror laws are stopping charitable contributions getting through to people in gaza and syria. >> plus, technology that has allowed anyone to snoop on a mobile phone. we look ahead to their mash

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was kill misdemeanor the blast a week ago. egypt interior minister has been sacked as part of a government rescuffle he was head of the police force which was criticized by human rights organizations that puts treatment at protestors, and delegations from libya's rival administrations are in morocco for u.n. backs talks and ending the political crisis subpoena more news where activists say at least 20 people have been killed after helicopters dropped what appeared to be barrel bombs. most of the casualty whose are close to a shop selling gasoline which caught fire. after being hit the government is billion criticized for the use of barrel bomb which is are not precise the use has been banned by a u.n. security council resolution. the u.n. special envoy has suggested his plan for a six week halt to fighting is

failing. made the commencement in a speak after the london think tank. our diplomatic editor says the u.n. may now have to go back to plan a. >> it may be going back to what they were doing before, because the plan is a bottom up trying to create confidence by starting in one place to get some peace to syria. the previous plan remember was all those geneva talks and that was a top down plan. one that approach now needs to be revisited rather than getting the two sides together as they try to do repeatedly with some members of the international community, they should dwell all the key countries with interests in the region in particular, iran and saudi arabia among others. >> an iranian diplomate kid gnats 20 years ago has been freed. they say he was freed in an operation by iranian special

forces, he was abducted in july 2013, by suspected al quaida government, last month the rebels who were said to be back from power. between yemen and iran for the first time in many years. u.k. banking regulations are are preventing charities like gaza and syria that's according to a group of series. over fears they are funding terrorists the british government to help improve they are acting in good faith lawrence lee reports. >> nobody urinally raises money about where charity money winds up. but in u.k. muslim charities are under the micro scope. which raises millions of dollars every year to victims

of the world's trouble spot, they have had donations delayed by the banks or blocked completely, and they that say can cost lives. >> our payments that go out to these countries are very critical a month too late on a three month payment can bring work to a grinding halt and where you work in emergency zones that money is destined for medicines basic medicine, or refugee camps. it can cost lives. >> the argument from the authorities pushed by much of the british media is the charities can end up funding terrorism either deliberately or by accident, so the banks have to prove they are not channeling that money that way, or they can risk fines and damage. >> is the problem is that instituting the due diligence checks demanding by the financial industry, would cripple many charities. they say their requests for help are being met by silence.

the banks insid they are doing what they tell them to, but the charities say that neither the government nor the batchings is bothering to explain to them, how they can prove that the money is going to good rather than bad causes. so a group of muslim charities commission add report into how much money from almost certainly well known charitable donations have been blocked by the banks in the last 12 months. there's no clear answer, but it is certainly in the millions. >> if the. >> bas wanted to, they could roll up their sleeves and say we understand that there is some good we should be doing here using our banking capabilities. i think in general they don't take that attitude. they present potential headaches and perhaps the banks prefer if they went somewhere else. >> this is didn't first time this problem has arisen. barclays decided to pull the plug on the transfer service from the u.k. to somalia for

the same reason. that prevents somalia from sending money home of course you might think that bank which is have themselves been accused of things like money laundering would perhaps want to help charities prove their own innocence as of now it ayer poos the districts prefer to stay the same. >> u.s. 70 rights organizations say authorities are using illegal methods to snoop on people. which they say allows spies to hack into virtually anyone's phone without them knowing. kimberly explains. >> last summer, louise was hoping for a quiet night in her florida home. it was anything but. >> i was washing my dishes and all of a sudden i see this man, with an assault riflepointinging at my face, with a flashlight or white light. >> the man turned out to be a police officer, who ended louise's home at gun point she was put in handcuffs and

her house was searched, after more than 30 minutes louise and her boyfriend were let go with no explanation. >> no apologies nothing. >> louise contacted a lawyer, and learned she had been the latest victim of a secret police surveillance device known as the sting ray. >> we are committed to helping customers access, analyze store, the retrieve data on their terms. >> the sting ray was created by a company called paris corporation, designed for antigovernment terror organizations it is now believed that 100 local agencies are using the device, often without judicial oversight. >> data, images you need them now. without question without delay. >> tricking it's suspectses personal device into granting police secret access to record texts and other personal data. with tries talking to the

police department about the use of sting rays but it refused our request for an interview, the u.s. martial service another law enforcement agency, also declined to comment. that's pause the u.s. federal bureau of investigation or fbi has instructed police departments not to disclose use of the invasive technology. >> i don't want to say too much about that, because i don't want the bad guys to know how we might be able to find them. >> louise was not a bad guy. she was an innocent person who was victimized by sting ray surveillance. we don't invade homes without a warrant. >> second, there's a presumption of innocence. >> that is protected under u.s. law. is that what they do to

american people, they just come in and almost kill you. >> that's why they are working to further expose the sting ray technology that the u.s. government is trying just as hard to keep a secret. the accident happened as the aircraft was troying to land the fire department says in one was injured.

there must be no new cases of the virus reporting for 42 consecutive days. eh joins us from brussells do you think that liberia will make it to that declaration of being ebola free? i think there's quite a lot of government leadership. there's an effort by all international community with are so far down the line where the last case was and we

think that the next 20 days will be crucial in getting -- it will require a lot of effort, it will require a lot of commitment, it will require a lot of push and hopefully he will be getting it. >> what do you think is the key to bringing it under control? any over lessons from other country ms. the region. >> yes, a couple of things that we need to bring forward i think that nigeria and mali rapidly mobilized leadership, to the cases have come true, and therefore they put in quite a lot of government leadership a lot of travelling they have done, and the president who control of everything and that led leadership to take this very far the second issue in the international community, came

in with resources and people, and this helped them bring in awareness to people and help him bring in people to the front of this the third pointer is committed themselves with deeply involved with this, committees realize this was their fight it wasn't the fight somebody that could take for them, it was their own fight and therefore they prepared themselves,s they went into it, and they took the fight to ebola, and that has helped a lot person whose are suspected, they supported them with whatever they could support them with, and then rapidly referred them to ebola treatment getting into the. sos. >> they have been very crucial in helping the fight. >> now w.h.o. has announced that guinea will be launching a large ethicacy trial how viable do you think lit be available to ordinary people in these areas? >> there was already a trial

in liberia it didn't take very long, there were quite a number of mixed messages but it did happen. it is probably not going to take very long after a few days back worker have from w.h.o. they have some good results and very soon we might get the kind of results coming out very soon might get sock slam seen. >> thank you very much indeed for talking to us about the ebola outbreak, thank you. >> thank you. >> now they say that age is just a number and getting older should be celebrating but how about adding hundreds of thousands of years on to your age? it's been reveals that the human gene nice is much older than we thought. part of a jawbone with five teeth, known to the human

family was discovered it is thought to be 2.8 million years old previous old ohs trace was an upper jawbone also found in ethiopia it was thought to be 2.35 million years old so this latest find suggestssuggests that the human species is 400,000 years older than thought. it had some human like features and walked upright. the man that discovered the jaw, from as as state university joins us live now i want to ask you about the moment you found it, tell us a little bit about what happened? is. >> it was on january 29th, 2013 morning. we as a group went out for a

field surveying a locality. and i was looking for fossils that particular heel which i found and i climbed up the hill and walked on to the plateau. and then on the other side of the hill, -- sticking out of the sediment, just caught my eye. and i sat down. and looks at it very closely and i saw that piece of -- that the tooth was impacted with a piece of mandible. >> i had a fresh break and that means that there is another piece close by, and i

didn't spend much time, when i turn under a, i found the other piece, and when i put them together, they -- it fit perfectly, without any displacement, so that's how i found this jaw. >> tell us, tell us about the development of humans, why is it so significant. >> yeah it was -- very important, because in the human study the time period between two and 3 million years, particularly 2.5 million years we have very limited fossils. and we were not clear how our genies is related to the -- so the discovery of this the lady

girl jaw at 2.8 million years old, will give us a hint, and information, how these two dennis are related. and this jaw has some primitive features which share and more featured which looks like the genous homo. and the later genus species. so for this time given the time period, we discovered this jaw, it's very significant in understanding the relationship between the

two. it is very present by lucy. >> okay, thank you for clarifying that, thank you indeed for telling us about your very exciting discovery thank you. >> coming up in sport on al jazeera, a new major league soccer season will start on time after a player strike is called off. and the future of gaming for smart phones and tablets.

time for sport now. >> thank you very much. major league soccer champions will keep up the new season when they take on the opening game on friday. with just 34 hours ago there were doubts as to whether the game would take place. players were threatening strike action. the deal includes the introduction of a form of free agency. which basically means allowing players to represent themselves. that doesn't help with the league, put we can only be as focused as we can and prepare ourselves mentally, in the right way which we have been, and to try -- so hopefully now we can get to the game on friday. >> dutch football association president says he is hopeful he will receive backing in his bid to unseat fifa.

this week, they to get official backing from the confederation the 78-year-old for their annual congress where it was expected he receive an official endorsement for a 5th-4 year term. the official reason, well, they just didn't get around to a vote apparently. porch gat former portugal international, and the dutch fa president is -- they will lobby for support ahead of the vote. >> the only i have been talking to was yesterday and the federations and they are very much interested in football issues. of course, transparency has changed that is also what the feeling that i got that they want change, i have a good feeling about the meetings yesterday, that's all i can

say of course they didn't disclose what they are going to do, there's still 2 1/2 months to go, so they have all the time to come together and make up their mind. and the sport is taking another step forward who was sacked after the disaster start to qualify the next year as european champions. they have just 1.. from 4 matches. former dutch striker is also on the verge of swing into international management, but the 38-year-old is set to be named as the new coach of the

tiny island. hosting a population of just 153,000, well, up until recently, he had been working as an assistant his mother is from the dutch speaking country, which competes in the the concacaf. the world cup later they take on the west indies, the indians have three wins from three in the competition and lead paul having beaten the likes of pakistan and south africa midway through their series, that was back in october, well, the west indies will hope the attack can make the most of who once took seven against one run, a t this ground, back in 1993. >> it is very important that we have one became at a time. it isn't just now going into

the warner. >> 99 days time, europe will stage it's first ever continental multisport tournament. more than 20,000 will compete in sports. earlier we spoke to the chief operating officer and asked what they stood to gain from host the first ever european games. >> i think there is a real need to have a european game, we need to recognize that europe is the only continue independent in the world that doesn't have it's own major event for the best in the continent, there's been a pan america games and a nation games sense 1951, and despite the athletic strength, and the commercial strength of europe, there has never been an event for the best in europe.

but as far as they are concerned, this allows it to help diversity it's economy into tourism, and into sports tourism in particular, we only need to look at the next couple of years hosting formula 1 islamic solidarity games, and four matches of euro 2020. so really, a great future ahead of it. it's also about physical legacy. and human legacy that are being lived as a result of these games. we can see the full interview on this week's edition on counting the costs and just over half an hour from now now, par olympian sprinter who is hoping to qualify for next year's game has had his athletic leg stolen. he woke up on his birthday to find that thieves had broken into his car and stolen two running blades worth $30,000.

>> that's my way of life. most exciting part of my day is when i get to go to track practice. >> the value that it has far exceeds anything that anybody can get on the black market. we are talking like hundred fold. >> a lot more sport on our website, check out all al jazeera.com/sport. >> that is all your sport for now, i will hand you back to lauren in london. >> you forgot who i was there for a moment, thank you very much indeed. now $55 billion as year, the computer game industry is a big business, traditionally that games have been playing on specialized consoles but now that's changing with games on smart phones increasingly popular. more on the future of gaming from barcelona. in the early daying of computer gaming they had games like packman. but soon consoles took over the new gaming into the home. the sale of these along with

the games else thises have become a $55 billion a year industry. but now that's changing. with gaming on smart phones, becoming increasingly popular. so they have capability to do games that can compete with consoles and modern day, there are games that i think do with you anywhere, and they can be connected to any other device. >> mobile games the kind of apps that you download on to your hand set or on to your tablet used to be a afterthought for the gaming industry, but they are becoming a main this allowed you to design your car to race in a virtual world you can also order for $20. and live it to your home. mobile games are now reaching millions of users. consider themselves gamers and this main stream popularity is fast making it as lucrative as the old console business. some believe sales this year will top $30 billion, with steady growth in the u.s. and europe, much more explosive

expansion in southeast asian markets and china. >> there's been a lot of games that adapt well, and then there's also the mass hit that everybody accepts. everybody plays angry birds but then you get into genera based games that really resonate well with them there but they have problem adapting to the global scale. >> global smart phone adoption rises from around 2 billion people today, to more than 4 billion by 2020, so too will demand for entertainment on these devices. the mobile gaming community the confident this will make the games even more popular and profitable. al jazeera the mobile world congress in barcelona. >> and to more stories for you any time on our website that address for that is aljazeera.com. that's it for me, lauren taylor for this news hour, back just after the break with another full day of the news. stay with us, bye.

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