>> repelling i.s.i.l, the armedgroup is forced from the town of al baghdadi by iraqi forces and coalition air strikes. i'm shilly goash gauche, welcome to al jazeera from doha. edging closer to a deal, rival forces find common ground that might end the fighting. taiwan and mandarin, people

unable to communicate with china. u.s. military commanders say iraqi forces have recaptured the town of al baghdadi from i.s.i.l. after five months of fighting. iraqi forces moved in after a series of air strikes on i.s.i.l. positions by the u.s. led coalition. al baghdadi is close to a military base where iraqi force he are being trained. our iraq correspondent jane arraf says there are conflicting reports. jane what are these conflicting reports that you are talking about? >> reporter: well, it seems like the center of baghdadi and this is a relatively small city near the air base where americans and others are based in western al al anbar that it

was taken three days ago to be exact. and the entire area is being taken by being coalition forces or whether it's still being held by i.s.i.l. the head of the baghdadi municipality tells us there are still hotly quested areas hotly contested areas around the town. what we know shilly is there were areas of the siege that were broken and many have come here to baghdad to await the i.s.i.l. being pushed out completely from their home, shimmy. >> there is still fighting going around tikrit, that's presumably

going to be the next big target for iraqi forces. >> reporter: that is clearly the main offensive. near a base that is quite high profile. we must remember that the air base where the americans and others operate is almost the size of a city so is not in serious threat. that is most purely an iraqi and iranian show, iraqis under control of iranian backed militias and key iranian advisors in that fight. they are still heading towards tic reiterate trying to surround the city but are not there yet. shilly. >> jane arraf in baghdad there. iraqi troops near fallujah

in anbar province, al jazeera has obtained exclusive video showing destruction caused by the occupation of i.s.i.l. top politician he, 54 people have been accused of taking bribes from the state run brazilian oil company petrobras. key allies of president dilma rousseff. victoria gatenby reports. former president and the speakers of both chambers of congress and all but one from president dilma rousseff's governing coalition. state owned oil firm petrobras.

president rousseff chaired the board of petrobras for seven years when much of the corruption was alleged to have taken place. she has been cleared of any involvement in the scheme. she says her focus is on fixing brazil's struggling economy. >> translator: we are now entering a new phase in confronting the crisis, in which a number of new methods will be needed. >> but the scandal has been damaging to rousseff who was just reelected last year. >> politicians are under enormous public pressure, pressure from public opinion to take this seriously -- this is an enormous public scandal involving the largest public company in brazil, petrobras

that happens to be a government company. >> accountable even before the investigation is completed. >> you wouldn't necessarily have to wait for the end of the investigation. or for the sentencing process. if there was evidence against that member of parliament, it would go to the ethics board and then to the floor for an open vote by the chamber of deputies. >> reporter: under brazilian law elected officials can be only tried by the supreme court which must now decide with the help of prosecutors whether there is enough proof to put them on trial. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. police investigating the reports of a suspicious package that may have caused an explosion where 20 others were injured. egypt new interior minister

has made changes the new appointments are seen as part of a restructuring of the ministry. libya's national oil corporation says fighters have attacked and set the oil field afire. i.s.i.l. militias have been blamed. forces loyal to the tripoli based government southeast of sirte. u.n. envoy has warned, hashem ahelbarra reports. >> closer to clinching a political deal. they have agreed in principle on implementing a ceasefire pulling out militias and forming a national unity government but

the two delegations need to travel to libya to consult with their government. if things go well they will return to the moroccan capital rabat for a final ceremony. >> translator: there are signs of a deal. we've now moved to a new phase and with the u.n. we are starting to talk about guarantees. once there is a deal we will have a government that has a clear mandate. we will submit a draft to the united nations on a comprehensive deal on all the guarantees and so form a government as soon as possible. >> reporter: a deal was almost unthinkable a few days ago. the bitterly divided government of east and west libya don't trust each other. the tobruk government is recognized by the international community while the tripoli based government is considered the legitimate one by the country's constitutional court.

it is this man the united nations envoy bernard de leon who has been trying to convince libya's warring factions to give peace a chance. >> this will lead nowhere they are aware of this, we are starting concrete proposals this morning. i am optimistic about the security arrangements which is a key element. the new government needs a secure environment to work. >> reporter: at the start of the talks the government of tobruk announced it is stopping air strikes for three days. a gesture of good well the representatives say. >> there is no way but to pursue a very productive national dialogue that could reach the stage of having a total agreement on both parties. for sake of establishing or constituting the government of national unity.

>> reporter: libya has been beset by a power struggle. the in-fighting and rise of groups affiliated by islamic state of iraq and the levant raise issues of destability that threatens to destabilize the spire community. throughout talks here in the capital rabat both parties never met with each other preferring instead to do business with the united nations envoy hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> before a draft agreement was met, as our diplomatic editor

james bays reports. >> a rare moment, a new security council resolution is reached against chemical chlorine attacks. the resolution doesn't say which side was responsible for the chlorine attacks but there was left no doubt. >> let's ask ourselves who has helicopters in syria? countless attacks on syrians by barrel bombs. >> russia said the opcw report, perhaps ambassador said, chlorine bombs went off santa time when helicopters just happened to be flying in the area then he said this.

>> translator: we provide the technical details then our colleagues smile and say we know it's the government that is responsible. can we work like this in the security council? no. don't protect the terrorists. >> the u.s. demanded a right to reply. >> it's a little unusual to take away the supply of chemical weapons then imply that the party that's implicatein the chemical weapons isn't involved in the attack. >> then the answer. >> the uses chemical weapons by the government of syria was a red line and could cause the united states to use force yet after the events of the 21st of august they didn't do that so the government of assad did not crush this red line. the president of the united states said this was a red line and then he didn't do anything. >> reporter: could the security council take action if

there are more attacks? that is a possible but you have to look at that row inside the security council chamber. it illustrates how unlikely at the theyitis they would reach a resolution. james bays, al jazeera, united nations. >> coming up in a few minutes. >> putting some of america's major hate groups out of business. >> how the ku klux klan was made bankrupt. plus. >> i'm harry fawcett in taiwan. the preservation of traditional chinese characters with pen and paper but with smartphones people are forgetting how to write them.

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>> i believe the zionists control the country. >> "talk to al jazeera". only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. i'm shilly gauche. town of under i.s.i.l. control in september is near a u.s. training base. brazil's supreme court has given the go-head toahead to investigate a scandal involving petrobras. eight guards killed and attacked the al ghani oil field near sala.

16-year-old trial about freedom of expression. despite criticism the turkish prime minister says the prosecution is justified. >> reporter: a show of support for a 16-year-old boy facing a serious charge in turkey, insulting president recep tayyip erdogan. >> we want a free turkey a free life i want to be acquitted. i'm sure the the public also hopes for this. >> the bhoi is identified as his initials mea because the turkish law protects his oift butidentity but does not protect his are criticizing the president for his presidential palace. >> launched into criticisms that aren't even harsh but are

humorous in nature. >> former prime minister could face two years in prison for a widely shared social media post in which she shared a satirical verse sergs of theversion of the turkish national anthem. >> nowadays we can see that turkey is moving a little far from democracy. >> reporter: turkey's prime minister has defended the prosecution of the 16-year-old blaming the prosecution. >> neither launch the investigation into the subject nor prosecute. >> reporter: while the 16-year-old is the latest to draw attention to the issue he's not the youngest. last year, a 13-year-old was pulled out of class under

suspicion of making comments about the president in a facebook post. annalan attack at a night club in mali french president francois hollande denounced the attack in its former colony as cowardly. 32 witch doctors have been arrested in tanzania as part of the crack down offalbino people. witch doctors believe the body parts of albinos have special powers. secretary of state john kerry meets in a few hours over a possible plan to train

ukrainian troops, or the implementation of the three week old ceasefire by the army and pro-russian separatists. >> illegal pro-russian armed groups continue their attacks against positions and checkpoints of the ukrainian army as well as civilian residences. since the ceasefire on 15 february militants have undertaken over 750 attacks. >> translator: according to data we have these days some 300 military from the united states have arrived and they will train ukrainians on use of military equipment, wherever americans appear expect bad things to happen. the marion barry mh 370

massive search in indian ocean failed to turn up any evidence of the airliner. when the plain's disappearance will be made public. >> i hope i will receive the report by today because the investigation team is an independent investigation team and they have sent the report to the government. >> reporter: the prime minister suggested at one stage during the last 12 months in an open press conference that the plain had been taken over, yet saying it was an accident we have no evidence of where the plane is the black bok recorders orbox recordersor any wreckage so how can the statement be made? >> declarations of accident that is important.

because unit under oip ipo requirement we have to announce the plane is lost and the declaration of accident is the way forward. >> there may be a probability now that the australians will wind down their involvement in the search and recovery operation, when will you take over and how long will you be willing to search for mh 370? >> i would like to reiterate that the expert team has advised us this is the place we should search. and the expert team is professional bodies from all over the world ntsb from u.s., atsb from australia we have

talent from boeing, all that we need and it is a big such team and all the data that we require and woo analyze the data shows that the plane is in the south indian ocean. >> u.s. president barack obama has defended the position not to charge a ferguson police officer for the killing of unarmed teenager michael brown. >> we may never know exactly what happened. but officer wilson, like anybody else who is charged with a crime, benefits from are due process and a reasonable doubt standard. and if there is uncertainty about what happened, then you can't just charge him anyway just because what happened was tragic. that was the decision that was

made and i have complete confidence and stand fully behind the decision that was made by the justice department on that issue. >> meanwhile it's 50 years since peaceful civil rights protesters were attacked in selma. the incident which gave momentum to the african civil rights movement, even today in alabama the fight for equality continues, rob reynolds report. >> in montgomery alabama schoolchildren learn who died at the hands of ku klux klan in fight for african american rights. the life's work of morris dees. >> putting some of america's major hate groups out of business with the strategy of

taking them to civil court and hitting them in the pocketbook. >> the are items on display are the klan victories. >> bankrupted united klans of america in 1981 for lynching an african american in mobile, and whose members killed voilt voilt violet liuzzo.next thing you know, they have a recipe for blowing up the federal building. we're trying to keep up with that change. >> reporter: since much has changed since the march 50 years

ago, des says there is a lot to defend. >> the lgbt issues, all these issues are in the forefront. that's if dr. king were here today he would be marching with these groups also. >> reporter: rob reynolds, al jazeera, montgomery, alabama. when china decided to move to a simplified version of mandarin, as more of them communicate digitally. it's hard to remember how to do so. harry fawcett reports.

>> his family has made calligraphy pens since before he was born. he's worried that the proper accurate depiction of the traditional characteristics characters is under threat. >> when they try owrite they just don't know how. >> reporter: to read and write to a high standard you need to memorize around 8,000 individual characters. to allow such a huge vocabulary to be written shortcuts and ceebtskeyboards have been developed. you input a symbol related to the pronunciation of the initial symbol, and from that you can choose from does dozens of

characters. to prove the point we approached people in the park asking them to write a simple admitted lily unusual character. a sneak raise was sneaked into. >> sorry sorry sorry i forgot how to write. >> taiwan prides itself on its cultural heritage. brought with the army of the qwo muntang. what happens if succeeding generations forget to write it by hand? >> by writing in traditional characters we might understand the story of how they evolved. the beauty maintained this them and their sense. so when children learn to write

the character they develop a better understanding. >> when they move from paper to screen those skills are harded to preserve. holding onto them is part of master qwo's work. the basic strokes then the artistry. he's doing his best to pass on his knowledge of the industry. harry fawcett, al jazeera taipei. >> now a rare bird which played a key role in bringing her species back from bringt brink of extinction. when she hatched 32 years ago the population had been nearly

wiped out. but almei helped the population rise. she's undergoing treatment and her doctors say she is responding well. you can find up to date news and developments on our website aljazeera.com. it's a power struggle between bosses and yub i don't knows with the american worker caught in the middle. i'm ask labor secretary tom perez what the decline of organized labor could do to your paycheck and job security. money." ♪