on al jazeera america >> this is the true definition of tough love a series of bomb blasts kill more than 50 people in northern nigeria as boko haram pledges a allegiance to isil. hello there i you are watching al jazerra live from doha. also coming up. closing in on tikrit. iraqi forces liberate a nearby town from isil. on the first anniversary of the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 the search for answers goes on. plus. >> reporter: i am erica woods in south africa. push to go give women the right

to own land and the skill to his work it. but why aren't they do the same for men? we'll tell you why coming up. ♪ ♪ we begin in nigeria with boko haram as pledge ahead leans' to aisles. on saturday more than 50 people were killed in coordinated attacks across the northeastern city. by suspected fighters from the armed group. a report now from the capital abuja. >> reporter: another bloody day in northern nigeria. these are victims of the latest attacks by suspected boko haram fighters. medical workers struggle to save those they can. a scene that has now become a routine in the north. dozens have been killed in three coordinate ahead tacks. a city home for more than a million people displaced by boko haram violence.

>> translator: the dead are in the morgue and the injured are being treated. there are reports that it was the work of male and female suicide bombers. it is possible, but i can't confirm it now. >> reporter: hours after the attack, the leader of boko haram, pledged loyalty to isil. boko haram had hinted at joining forces with isil before. but the timing of this announcement is important. the group has recently lost ground in the northeast of the country and some see this pledge of allegiance as a desperate attempt to draw isil in to its operations. a military onslaught by forces from nigeria cameroon, niger and chad has forced the fighters from their bases the nigh nigeria then military has taken towns back. but still face resistence from boko haram. now the group has stepped up its attacks on soft targets like buss and markets and this is causing a lot of concern among nigerians who have witnessed

such bombings before in urban areas. mohamed idris, al jazerra abuja, nigeria. the iraqi army is continuing its push to try to retake tikrit from isil. on saturday troops liberated the town just east of the city. selena downs has more on the battle for tikrit. >> reporter: it's been ongoing for days. but still the fighting continues on the edges of tikrit. here members of a shia militia target isil positions. these iranian-backed fight ears long with iraqi army soldiers are part of a force that's trying to recapture the town. the top u.s. general says that force numbers 23,000, compared with just hundreds of isil fighters. on friday, backed by missile strikes, they entered a door on tikrit's southern outskirts in, some areas they are having to fight for every block. elsewhere, there are reports

that isil fighters have destroyed this place the ancient archeological site in northwestern iraq. government officials say fighters started removing artifacts here as early as thursday. but now they have reportedly used explosives and bulldozers to pull down the world heritage site. it comes days after it emerged they had attacked the remains of the ancient city founded in the 13th century b.c. they are also digging in in tikrit. if isil is driven out here, that opens up the way for an all-out assault on mosul. but that could be some way off. selena downs, al jazerra. >> representatives of libya's two rival factions have agreed to form a national unity government. and will start the reconciliation process, a report from morocco where the u.n.-backed peace talks took place. >> reporter: libyan rival factions meeting face-to-face

for the first time. the event took place in the presence of united nations envoy and senior mo rack an officials. it's a step forward in a long process that was started by the united nations to end months of fight ago wrong libya's divided governments. one based in tobruk and the other in the capital tripoli. >> translator: we have come to some sort of agreement. this is a step that brings us libyans together. we can now move forward to form a government. >> reporter: the two feuding factions have agreed to form a national unity government. disband militias and build a national army. >> translator: al our biggest problem was political nature, once you solve it, you will see peace prevail. this is why we insist let's form a government as soon as possible with guarantees all the parties will respect what has been

agreed upon. we want a government that stays for sometime. not a government that collapses after a few days. >> reporter: but a political settlement may take some time to fully implement. libyans still don't trust each other. and parts of the country are either under the control of war lords or groups affiliated with isil. >> it's a very complex negotiation so let's be cautious. i think expectations should match also the difficulties that we are facing. and the challenges are very important, but definitely, parties are getting closer. >> reporter: the international community has been actively engaged in effort to his salvage ideal between the internationally recognized government of tobruk and the tripoli-based general national congress or g.m. dn did the c. it remains to be scene whether

libya's government will be able to rein in ma litschs that have a huge influence. thousand we are expecting the two delegations from west and east libya to consult with their government on his the details of the agreement. if they get the go ahead they will travel back next week for what could be a final deal that many hope would end violence and blood chest in libya. al jazerra. jim en's defense minister has arrived in aden. he escaped from house arrest on saturday. houthis had surrounded his home in january banning anyone from going in or out. his he skate follows that of yemeni president hadi who also fled from aden to sanaa. staying with yemen as the conflict between president hadi and the houthis continues, the fight to control the media has become one of the new battle ground, mohamed reports.

this says yemen official tv station, but since the houthis took over the champion has focused in position with the houthis. it shows the militia leader and their so-called committees. >> after their coup the houthis controlled the tv and the newspaper. here in the aden office, we can no longer publish our material in the paper we only do administrative work. >> reporter: here is aden, president hadi is left with one single option. aden tv is the only channel in southern yemen. president hadi gave orders that it should now be considered the official tv channel for the country. it's an enormous challenge for the channel's staff. the tv station that was once the official channel of the former independent republic of southern yemen was left in limbo since the reunification of yemen in

1990. it's been technically and financially. [ inaudible ]. and last month the houthis cut off its transmission and satellite cable which passed through sanaa. >> translator: they disconnect the the cables without prior warning, so we were obliged to find alternatives we have now begun to trans lit live on sat. >> reporter: the houthis were reportedly afraid the south might announce independence right after their coup on hadi. their decision has inadvertently served aden tv well. now for the first time it has been able to broadcast to the world independently from aden. but that's not hadi's only challenge as he tries to get his message across, all of yemen's other tv channels and most of its newspapers are located in the north. the majority have come under houthi control or censorship. the internet speed in aden is next to zero. aden tv now is rather like a shadow of a channel it once was.

most of its equipment goes back to the 1980s most of itsal programs come from other channels and it's staff are under paid. it needs huge funds and a boost in human resource to his do a good job. president hadi has been relying on foreign reporters to carry his message to world. his own citizens who are the primary target are struggling to get access to the message. al jazerra aden. two al jazerra journalists will appear in a cairo court again on sunday after their alleged links to the bans muslim brotherhood. the retile was ordered by the court of cassation in january where it overturned a lower court's verdict which found them guilty. omar reports. >> reporter: it will be the third time for al jazerra's mohamed fahmy and bahar mohamed to appear in court for their retrial. on january 1st the court of

cassation threw out their convictions and ordered a retile. journal faried freed the men on bail on day one of the retile which started on february 13th. fahmy was order today pay a security bond of just over 33,000 u.s. dollars. and on february 23rd the judge adjourned the case until march 8th because the witnesses failed to show up. it's not clear what proceedings will take place and if the case will be postponed again. al jazerra is demanding a speedy process to dismiss the case against its staff. bahar mohamed and mohamed fahmy were freed after spending 411 days behind barbs bars. bahar went thome his wife and their through children, he had missed the birth of his son while he was in jail. meanwhile, mohamed fahmy

returned home to his family and fiancé. he gave up his egyptian citizenship to speed up his release. but their ordeal is far from over. the men stand accused of aiding the muslim brotherhood which was declared a terrorist organization just four days before they were arrested on september 29th, 2013. in the months that followed, they stood trial alongside their colleague peter greste in what legal experts called a as far as. on june 23rd. they were found guilt and i sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison. six other al jazerra clerks were sentenced in absentia to a decade each behind bars. the global journalism community demanded their immediate release in a string of protests around the world. meanwhile, diplomatic effort to his deport australian peter

greste paid off. on february the 1st after 400 days in jail, he was sent home. efforts to deport mohamed fahmy to canada have proved unsuccessful so far. and for now his fate and that of bahar mohamed and six other al jazerra journalists lies once again in the hands of the egyptian judiciary. al jazerra. coming up here in the next 15 minutes. n chanting ] >> another protest in the united states after police shoot a black teenager. that's after the break.

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welcome back. the top stories on al jazerra. the nigeria-based armed group boko haram has pledged elyse i think to isil. on saturday morning 50 people were killed in attacks across the northeastern city. by suspected boko haram fighters. the iraqi army continues its push to try to retake tikrit from isil on saturday troops liberated towns just east of the city. and representatives from libya's two rival factions have agreed to form a national unity government. both sides will now start the reconciliation process. the agreement was reached during talks led by the u.n. in morocco. now, exactly 12 months ago a malaysian airlines jet roared up

in to the night sky over kuala los angeles pump and vanishs. what happened to its two 239 passengers and crew has been become a mystery. where the giant jet is remains as much a mystery now as it was a year ago. initially the search area included 600,000 square kilometers in the southern indian ocean. investigators narrowed that area to 60,000 square kilometers here off the coast of perth in australia. that's an area of size of sri lanka. last september sonar devises began to search below the sea along this arc. a search that's expected to continues over the next several months. as families of 239 passengers and crew wait for answers malaysia says it remains committed to the search. andrew thomas takes a look back. >> flight mh370 lost contact

with air traffic control. >> reporter: the announcement began perhaps the greatest aviation mystery of all time. a search along the malaysian airlines intended flight route found nothing. then came the twists. mh370 had stopped transmitting location information. but had been seen by military radar off route west back across the melee peninsula. then where? the best clues were seven pings picked up by a satellite. they suggested it had traveled along an arc south. >> according to this new data, like mh370, ended in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: despite dozens of flights by search planes flown from the australian city of perth, no debris was found. ships were sent first to listen for a black box signal, then to map the sea bed. now to explore it.

with three of these dragged 10-kilometers behind ships and four-kilometers down, their sonar can detect objects of a square meter from a clock der away. >> the boats are what we call mowing the lawn and they are doing long parallel lines so we start at the north of the site and head south. that takes us seven days, 700 nautical miles long which is around about 1200-kilometers. and then we go off on a parallel line back to the north again. >> reporter: so far just over 40% of the priority area of 60,000 square kilometers has been searched with nothing found. but those leading the hunt have hope. >> we are quite confident but not certain that the aircraft is in this high pry priority area that we are search asking we know with the equipment and the techniques that enter using that if it is there as it very likely is, we will find it. >> reporter: and if they do, a whole new challenge begins. finding the missing plane would be the end of the search, but

would only mark the beginning of the recovery. and that is where this comes in. under water robots will go down to investigate any wreckage and look for the plane's black box with, that perhaps the mh370 mystery can be solved. andrew thomas, al jazerra perth. >> live for us in kuala lumpur now, the malaysian authorities haven't organized anything official to commemorate the anniversary. but, of course, families are those who vanishs are marking it in their own way. >> yes in the lead up to this first anniversary al jazerra has been attending some of not vigils that we have seen that have gone on as the sunsets certainly on friday and saturday we saw many people, friends and supporters at certain locations around the capital. gathering to light candles recite versus from the koran and sing signing a memory board as well to show their support really for the families.

yes, there are no official commemoration or services expected to be attended by the government. very difficult one for the government. because officially, the passengers on 370 are missing. they haven't been declared dead so how do you commemorate or memorialize an event like this. it's been very difficult for the government to position themselves on this issue. they have come under a great deal of criticism also because when they do show their faces at publicist events, press conferences as we have seen distressed families are very angry saying why haven't you given us any information. but the goff says they have given them as much information as they can technically give them. they are not hiding anything, so they are damned in they do and damned if they don't. >> we are just been hearing or seeing that the head of the independent investigation team has been giving a public briefing. what is the latest on the search? >> indeed we were expecting this

report to be issued on the anniversary. when i spoke to the transport minister for malaysia on saturday, he said that he was waiting to receive that report on saturday, and as soon as he got it and reviewed it, he would then release it and he kept his word. he released it very late on saturday evening. now, we have to be very specific about what's in this report. there are no surprising findings, what this is is a technical report as to what has gone on so far. where the search is progressing how long it will progress for and the technicalities of who is behind the international investigation. there are interested parties and countries if singapore the united kingdom china japan singapore, interim neesha as well as malaysia, all sifting through the data of where the plane was last seen, heard of, in which direction it was going through the satellite imagery. that the public have been aware of for the last 12 months. the statement is really a

reiteration of the report of i questioned the transportation minister about the report, he said exactly the same thing as we are seeing on national television in malaysia at the moment. it's very much a technical report. we have to remember that the transport minister said to me certainly on tuesday, that the search will continue in the southern indian ocean until the end of may with the australians. in the zones that they have already identified. if they do not find the plane they will then go back to the drawing board and decide where the next zone should be for a search. but that, of course, we have also heard that the australians may be pulling out very soon. it's all very fluid. and we just have to see how the malaysians progress from here. >> thank you for that, in kuala lumpur there. in the united states the police chief has appealed for restraint from protesters after the shooting the of another black teenager demonstrateers in madison wisconsin spoke out after the teenager was shot on friday. he was shot after fighting with a policeman.

the teenager's death follows a similar shooting which provoked right you want and increased scrutiny of alleged police violence. barack obama has called on americans to carry forward the spirit of the civil rights movement. america's first black president has been to selma in alabama on the 50th anniversary of the landmark civil rights march known as bloody sunday. our white house correspondent pally culhane was also there. >> reporter: vivid potent symbolism as u.s. president barack obama crossed the bridge in selma alabama a journey hundreds tried to make 50 years ago to the day. only to be met with clubs and horses. this violence would eventually lead to the passage of the voting rights act. the president came to pay tribute to their courage. >> it was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills. a contest to determine the true meaning of america. >> reporter: there were dissenting voices in the crowd

while the president warp speaking there were some chance of we want change not other speak. that have echoed by michael brown's mother who was here. her son agent death at the hands of a white police officer sparked the protests protests in missouri. >> i don't think we have come forward. i was born in '79 and i never thought i would go through big nba lying that. >> reporter: a federal investigation cleared the white police officer that killed harrison, but still found the ferguson police department rife with racism and corruption. the president said that isn't proof the civil rights movement has not made progress. >> and i understood the question question. the report's narrative was sadly familiar. it's no longer sanks by law or custom. >> reporter: still civil rights leaders say it is proof the movement needs a renewed folk on inequality. >> poverty 45% among adult.

65 among children, it's time to a moment to connect demonstration and legislation and farah prop raises. >> reporter: the president called for this crowd to act. to vote to. demands change, but a sampling of the crowd showed a decided lack of enthusiasm as the day came to a close. >> i thought he would give us some solutions right on the spot. but he didn't. arousing spinks a historic movement. but a lingering question of how much change is about to come for the civil rights movement in america. patty culhane, al jazerra selma, alabama. the columbian government and rebels have agreed to remove land mines and other explosives from battle ground, talks to end the five-decade long conflict have been ongoing in havana. official statistics show land mines have killed or injured more than 11,000 people in the last 25 years in colombia. the government says the deal say good start.

>> our main objective in these conversation is his toutan end to the conflict and avoid further victims in our country that's why the demining propose is a first but giants step towards peace, this is proof that we are working in the right direction. zero africa now where much of the continent's food supply is produce ed by female farmer, they sow the seeds and tend the feels and a whole lot more. but many don't own the land. erica wood reports on the campaign for equal land rights in south africa. >> reporter: in this dry region, these women have teamed up to grow vegetable on his a collective farm. they are able to grow enough to feed their own families and also to sell what's leftover. is. >> translator: before we used to have to buy everything, but now we are able to grow everything. so it's not only beneficial to us and our families, but even the other community members who come and buy from us. >> reporter: some estimates suggest up to 70% of all the

food eaten across the continue net is grown by women. but very few actually own the land they farm. the disadvantage -- they are disadvantaged by unequal laws and tribal tradition that his favor men. saying that leaves women vulnerable. vulnerable. >> translator: when men particular the lead in farming they sake the money and buy color. >> reporter: the benefits of giving women the right to his own land and the skills to work it are expo then shalt. studies have proven that women are far more likely than men to use the income they get from the land to benefit not only themselves and the children, but also the wider community. may have usshe has won full multiple awards for her harm farming. it's been so successful she's now exporting and mentoring other women to farm the tree. >> they are going to grow up and feet the children and take the children to schools and do

anything for the whole families. >> reporter: and she is benefiting the whole community any profits sea profits she makes she puts back for a breakfast program feeding hundreds of children. the head of the rural women's movement and a passionate campaigner of women's land rights. she says securing their rights will help africa withstand the effects climate change is having on food security. and she says farming is crucial for women's independent. >> when we are financially secure. the chances of us being abused, the chances of us faces violence are very slim. >> reporter: farm following women means more than just financial security, it's also security in terms of food, health and education. empowerrering them to dig themselves and their children out of the cycle of poverty. erica woods, al jazerra south

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