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there openly, voice and sounds, no poll tin vinnie state. continuation of settlements. and i believe now it's up to the international community to stop treating this prime minister as a prime minister that is above the laws of man and herb be held accountable. and he should -- the international community should not cover him or give him impunity. impunity will mean more conflict more complicities. and will not make peace. >> hamas has also reacted to the israeli election.

issue a statement that reads: iraqi forces are being accused of deliberately destroying civilian homes. human rights watch says the destruction occurred when the forces took back the iraqi town from isil fighters last september. the report includes photo and video evidence of militias looting the property of sunni civilians who fled the fighting. homes and businesses were burned and ahead least two villages were completely destroyed. the pro-iraqi forces are also accused of abducting 11 men during the operation. a u.s. air force veteran has been indict today allegedly plot to go join isil in syria. he was secretly arrested on terrorism charges in january. prosecutors say he had been

stopped at the turkish border. he was then detained in egypt and then deported to the u.s. the syrian government says it has shot down a u.s. drone. state tv reports the aircraft was downed just north of the coastal city. it broadcast images of what it says is the wreckage including a wheel and electronic parts. a u.s. official said a drone did crash in syria but it wasn't clear if it had been shot down. amnesty international says air strikes carried out by the assad government last november may amount for war crimes, opposition groupings are again accusing government forces of using chlorine gas killing women and children, kim vinnell reports. >> reporter: a man apparently suffering the effects of chlorine gas is douseed in water. this was after an attack in idlib province. that's accords to go human rights groups who monitor attacks like these. in hospital, survivors are given

oxygen. chlorine gaza tacks the respiratory system, causing suffocation. >> translator: we are here to receive the wounded. we have received around 70 of them to now. including women and children. we expect more to come. they suffered the symptoms of chlorine inhaling, some of them need more medical care. >> reporter: the skpwraoerpb syrian observatory for human rights says at least six people, including women and chirp were killed in this bombardment. opposition activists say it was the second attack of its type in just two days. babies like this one they say are among the victims. right now the world is being urged to turn its attention here to northeast sear y november last year, president bashar al-assad's forces attacked the city in a bid to drive out isil fighters. but in a new report amnesty international says the rules of

law were violated. >> we have come to the conclusion that there is damning evidence that the syrian government forces committed war crimes there. the research that we have done shows that over 100 civilians were killed, the places targeted were not is lat i can islamic stays baits at i'll remember but busy markets and residential areas. >> reporter: am nets at this says while attention was divert to the u.s.-led air strikes el where, assad's forces killed civilians relentlessly, at least 60 people were killed in the shelling in one day alone. back here doctors say they know the world is following watching and condemning these crimes, but it's action they say that's needed to shop the blood bloodshed. kim vinnell, al jazerra. the iranian press has expressed optimism to reaching ideal with western powers every its nuclear program of the he was speaking during a ceremony

of the south pass gas deal which iran shares with qatar. meanwhile, iranian and u.s. diplomats have returned to vitt land forsweptlast hoping to resolve differences blocking ideal before the end of the month. still ahead. i want nearing i can't end the search for victims of last year's air asia plane crash, 56 people are still unaccounted for. plus. >> reporter: i am in the southern indian state. coming up, i will be taking a look at why india's premier bike run as become a thumping global success. consulted on this? >> no. >> a controversial deal. >> we would love to have a mine in the community. at the end of the day, it is an issue of fairness. >> america tonight gets an exclusive interview with a foreign mining company accused of taking native american land. >> people have been very

critical of your company, saying that it'll leave a permanent scar on the landscape. will it? >> an america tonight special report: "mining sacred lands". thursday, 10:00 eastern.

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welcome back a reminders now of our top stories on al jazerra. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has declared the likud party the winner of israel's election. with 99% of the votes counted likud has at least 29 sets, signist union trails with 24 seats, its leader isaac herzog says he's working to put together a coalition. joint list palestinian parties is going to be the third largest four in the knesset. it's an alliance of four parties that ran under one ticket and they want to get 13 seats. the syrian government says it has downed a u.s. drone near the coastal city. the u.s. says a drone did crash in syria but it wasn't clear if it had been shot down. the ukrainian parliament has approved a draft law that will grant special status and limited self rule to rebel-held regions in the east. the self governance for

pro-russian rebels was a key part of the peace deal agreed in minutes in february. lawmakers also approved an appeal by president petro poroshenko asking the u.n. to send peace keysers to eastern ukraine, calling the bills a diversion. meanwhile, there have been frosts in an eastern ukrainian town demonstrators took to the streets after a military vehicle struck and killed an eight-year-old given. he mes are running high in this government-held town which was under separatist control for three months last year. it's been a year since russia an ex-s the ukrainian territory of crimea. the region's ethnic community was caught up in the ensuing political crisis and claimed that they have suffered human rights abuses. rory challands we want to the city to see if life has changed for creme vinnie tatars. >> reporter: he has slept in his bed since last september. his bag hangs where he left it.

his cloth where they were hung on the day men in black uniforms abducted the 18-year-old and his cousin. now his father is left happen roping and dreaming and wondering if he is in any way to blame. >> during one the interrogations of at abduction, the investigating committee said they studied all possible versions and were considered one connected with me and my my activity. i asked what he meant. he said you need to be careful of my behavior. i asked does that mean my children are alive. he smiled and shrugged his shoulders. >> reporter: he was deputy chairman of the tatars' informal pardon me lament before it was should down by crimea's new administration. tata tar mediatar media outlets have been raided or denied licenses last month a body of a tatar man was

found with signs of torture. the issue you of crimea's tatars is a deeply complex one comeing from their deportation to central asia in 1944 and then their later return, is brings up a long-standing or you want overland rights and religions differences but the tatars aren't the only ones claiming of human rights abuses at the moment. abductions and months cushions say rights workers are being used against those too critical of crimea's return to russia. >> translator: another group is ukrainian activists who at any point in their lives expressed involvement in organizations supporting ukraine it is surprising these people consider themselves ukrainians because it was the territory of ukraine. >> reporter: such ago accusations get short shrift from crimea's new leaders though. >> translator: unfortunately these so-called human rights defenders are bring ringing alarms where alarming cases are

not happening. they are working for money paid by certainly organizations in western countries. they have certainly targets the main one is to discredit crimea joining russia and the russian federation in general. >> reporter: crimea has said his son's disappearance is being investigated. >> i am not sure 100 percent but i think he's alive. >> reporter: until he's proven right or wrong, all he can do is campaign and hope rory challands, al jazerra crimea. two dutch peacekeepers have died in northern mallee after a u.n. helicopter crashed the dutch defense chief says initial investigations points to an accident. the crash occurred during a military exercise near the town of gow. i understand near an restless you teams are calling off the search for victims of the air asia plane crash in the java sea. it was on its way from the indian city to singapore in december. all 162 people on board were

killed. step vaessen reports now from jakarta. >> reporter: more than two and a half months after the air asia crash now the rescue agents in consultant is a with the families of the victims have decided they call off the search of the air asia victims 106 people have been found and 56 have been unaccounted for so far. the rescue effort was actually officially called off earlier this month, but the family insisted to continue for another week and the rescue agency managed to find three more bodies one woman a child and another one whose joined has not been identified. it's been of course a painful decision for the families to accept the fact it's now over and done. more than two and a half months they have to come to terms with the fact that the government and the rescue agency has done all it could to recover as many victims as possible of the crash and give them some kind of closure, this coming weekend the

relativesrelatives it together with the government officials will go on the crash site and hold a ceremony in remembrance of their loved ones. the red cross has launch a nearly $4 million emergency appeal for vanuatu. the island nation was devastated by tropical cyclone pam over the weekend, the u.n. says at least 11 people have been killed and more than 3,000 people have lost their homes. some aid has arrived in the capital port villa and more is on the way. the damage is worse in vanuatu's more remote islands and people there are running out of foot foote and basic surprise, andrew thomas was one of the first cropped ender to reach the southern island. >> reporter: the vast majority of buildings i have seen in tana have been destroyed. many flat ends. thank. >> reporter: i people got out of the buildings in time and relatively few injuries and people killed here as we go. there is concern going forward that if aid doesn't start coming

in significant quantity soon, they'll have other problems to deal with. a lack of drinking water. a lack of food. a lack of shelter given so many houses have been destroyed is a real priority. and this is a picture repeated right across the islands of vanuatu. the charity uncief say that 70,000 children aren't going to school at the moment because their school have his been destroyed. we saw one like that just up the road. 60,000 children they say are in desperate need of healthcare, low immunization rate in vanuatu, they are concerned the children will get sick if they don't get the right facilities. aid flights are starting to arrive on some of the outlying eye hands this which is relatively remote will be one of the first to get aid in. eye formerism it. manager of the commonwealth bank of australia. has been arrested in sydney. keith hunter has been charged with bribery and more than $1 million in suspected bricks. he plans to plead not guilty.

police allege a seconds bank employ was also involved in the fraud. a joints industrial zone is at the center. latest dispute between south and north korea. around 20 south korean business men who manage factories at the industrial complex have traveled to the area in an attempt to settle a pace dispute. theying preokaypay dispute. >> reporter: the industrial complex often find itself on the wrong side of the troubled relationship between north and south korea. back in 20 13, for example, it was close today a number of months. the since then work has resumed it's very important to north korea employing some 50,000 is workers, but at the end of last month, pyongyang announced it was raising the minimum wage for the workers there from around $70 to $74 a month.

now, that is one and a half times what a north korean worker can expect in north korea. but it is very low according to the north koreans, for example it says its workers can expects to be paid 300 u.s. dollars in china. from south korea's points of view, it's not so much the amount of wage rise that is at issue. it is, after all only 5%. but the fact that it was announced unilaterally by north korea, the complex as you can imagine, takes an awful love the tactful administration between north and south to make it work, and from south korea's point of view this unilateral wage rise which should have been agreed between all parties is certainly not very tactful and it is from their point of view disincentive to any other companies want to go invest in north korea. in northeastern pakistan hundreds of people have attended funerals for victims of suicide bombings at two churches. at least 14 people remember killed and united states did en others have been injured on sunday.

a pal ban splinter group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. journalists in myanmar are increasingly concerned that tear professional is under attack. in the past month government force have his been criticized for breaking up protests with excessive force. and reporters say they have been primary targets. florence looi reports now. >> reporter: he says he's afraid to go home. he was following up on a lead for a story when he was attacked. the reporter had invite aid man to talk about his role in a paramilitary organization. the man along with two friends met him. and persuaded him for follow them to a house. >> translator: they hit me. then they rum immaterialed through my bag and took my mobile phone and voice recorder. they said to me, you reporters are troubling makers. >> reporter: the three men admitted to being part of the paramilitary force used by the local government to break up a protest in early march. myanmar law allows official to his recruit civilians to curb

unlawful gathering it's a tactic used by the former military government. there have been other incidents that have led journalists here to believe they are being targeted in a campaign of intimidation, earlier this month, two reporters were did he taped for several hours by police and had their cameras taken while covering a workers strike. covering a protest on the tenth of march he says saw a experienced how police turn odd the media. >> translator: i heard a police officer give instruction while pointing at two reporters being bead unup. he said arrest them too. when i heard that that i knew things were getting bad. >> reporter: two reporters were arrested during the crack down and detained for three days. the police chief in the area says it's not true that the police targeted the journalists. he told al jazerra that it was difficult to tell reporters from demonstrators once police tried to disburse the protesters. but the recent events have raised concerns.

>> translator: nowadays we don't have censorship, but we face lawsuits and legal issues, and sometimes the government uses terrorist ways to intimidate the media. >> reporter: when myanmar started its transition from military rule some four years ago the semi civilian government promised greater press freedom. now many are wondering if some of that freed sum slowly balky roded. florent lot. ooi. al jazerra,. india is home to one of the world's largest most market, in fact indian company royal has surpassed harley davidson as the top bike miker. now it has its sites society on the european and american markets. >> reporter: in i understand mann january after mid motor back has great ideas. and nip and they'll tell you these are on a roll. but to get this far the brand has had to make did you have

decisions decisions . >> 140 years of the longest running motorcycle company in the world now. and but bringing that in the modern context. so that's the fine balance that you have to play. >> reporter: to attract more buyers, royal infield re-engineered its bikes making them easier to ride. at a result since 2011. sales have increased four fold to more than 300,000 bikes last year. royal edfield even out sewed harley davidson globally. just as some motorcycle bike enthusiasts will tell you it's unfair to compare them, most say there is no comparison between the new and old versions of india's premier bike brands. bobby sing says over the years everyone from milk men to army officers kept the bike going. he considers himself part of an old guard. he says the company's new bikes compromise core values for

profits. >> i have never been to an edfield showroom and i have owned and worked on hundreds of them. they were always maintained always kept alive by individuals who never work for the royal company just purely for the love of the bike. >> reporter: that's what keeps jonathan gibson on the road. his bike is the same model his grandfather rode more than 100 years ago gibson is riding his 45-year-old even dfield from sydney to london. >> we look like every single one of those kilometers, it's a huge testament to the fashion behind the ed field. enfields. >> reporter: as the indian government tries to grow the manufacturing sector, many say a bike built locally and hand painted by artisan is his a

timely reminders of the uniqueness of what india has to offer. al jazerra,. a quite reminder that you can always keep up to date with all the latest news and analysis on our website at aljazerra.com. it doesn't matter who wins israel's elections, prime minister neath's campaign has exposed a truth, israel and mesh do not see eye to eye on a lot of things. i'll look at the fractures that need to be fixed. plus, new clashes on the west bank reminding everyone of the crisis that's not going away no matter who leads israel. we'll ask the palestinian ambassador about state hood after the vote.