libya's army chief calls for international help as u.n. brokered peace talks are set to get underway. ♪ hello, this is al jazeera live from doha also on the program, tunisia ordered troops the street as nine people arrested over the museum attack. backing down on his preelection promises, israel's prime minister appears to make a u-turn on his support for a two-state solution. and total eclipse, we are

tracking the best solar blackout in years. ♪ libya's new army chief is warning fighters from islamic state of iraq and levante will make their way to europe if no one stops them and calling for military assistance and says libya natural resources have made them a target for i.s.i.l. and they took over two cities along the mediterranean coast like and taking place in morocco to end violence and restore order in libya and from the ousting of badty almost four years ago groups battling to control the country, internationally recognized government driven out of capitol and unable to establish authority, forces loyal to

tripoli based general national congress claims to have taken on cert and i.s.i.l. left the town and used as a base to attack oil fields in the region and misrata and a bomb killed a person outside of a military camp and we have the latest. >> reporter: misrata is in mourn, the libya city for weeks under siege by gadhafi forces in 20 2011 are now on the front line of islamic state of iraq and levante and these men who belong to the libya dawn coalition were ambushed early on wednesday and armed group and misrata joined operation sunrise to gain control of the oil-rich region and sea ports. >> taken by surprise on watch and attacked about 3:00 in the morning, response of young fighters of libya and other forces came strong causing grave

losses in their lives and gear. >> reporter: the past few months library yeah rival parties more intent on fighting each other than taking on i.s.i.l.-linked fighters and the decision by tripoli to send troops to cert and surrounding areas was the first time they declared war on the branch of aisle. >> translator: the true fact is the city is not accustom to calamity and pain but all the sacrifices for libya for fighting terrorist in the form of a regime in order to bring the regime to the true right cause and achieve the goals and libya free of problems. >> reporter: i.s.i.l. lost men in the fighting officials in misrata trying to identify the bodies and some believed not to be libya but some libya officials believe many of those who joined i.s.i.l. are gadhafi loyalists and never accepted the new rulers of libya.

i.s.i.l.-linked groups control buildings in myanmar gaddafi town of cert and extends further east to the region and libya-dawn fighters say they are planning a major offensive and addressing the i.s.i.l. threat may not be ease and i.s.i.l. promised to take conflict to misrata 450 kilometers of cert and explosion for the libya dawn fighters inside the city dana with al jazeera. concerns that the deteriorating situation in libya turning it to a breeding ground for i.s.i.l. supporters and told a television station the two again gunman were trained in libya and nine arrested in connection with the attack and jackie has more. >> reporter: taking to the street to express defiance, the

message clear rejection of violence and the people who perpetrate it there was also solidarity with the victims and tributes laid in their memory. some of the victims were not carrying their passports and have not been identified yet. more than 40 people were injured. some of them have been talking about their experience. >> translator: we entered one of the rooms in the old part of the museum and suddenly my daughter aren't i started to hear shots and everyone started to run people tried to save themselves and hide behind the glass windows and the corners of the room. >> reporter: two gunmen were killed when security forces stormed the museum to end the siege but it's believed they had accomplices and police say they arrested nine people so far, four of whom they believe were directly involved in the attack. meanwhile the prime minister has been giving details of security measures across the country.

>> translator: we will be putting in place checkpoints that will be manned and supervised by the national army both the national army and security personnel will intensify their patrols across the nation joint patrols between both the army and security personnel will also be conducted. >> reporter: the museum will remain closed for several more days when it reopens it can expect fewer visitors, a number of tour companies say they are removing tunisia from their list offenders nations. tunisia held up as the success story of the arab spring and so far it has been spared much of the violence sweeping other parts of the region, now the parliament is looking to fast track new antiterror laws and the president has promised to fight mercilessly those behind wednesday attack. the first of the victims of the attack is laid to rest the police officer who died guarding the museum. tunisia remains in shock and in mourning and it's also aware

that it can no longer remain on the sidelines of what has become as the war on terror jackie with al jazeera, tunis. yemen the president hadi was forced to flee from his residence in aiden after two jets launched air strikes on palace and heavy fighting in the city international airport and we report. >> reporter: in many ways this is a battle not between two rival groups but between two men. forces loyal to president hadi retake the airport from special forces loyal to the former yemen president and it was a battle lasting four hours and passenger planes within range of the bullets. special forces unit fighters refused to give up arms and fought it by themselves with their barocks and they attacked the airport. the fighting got so intense the

airport was taken down and passengers taken on planes and back to terminal and people loyal to hadi surrounded them and chief of the yemen post says more violence like this is inevitable. expected houthis are now in control of the north and want to make sure the clashes and fights are happening in aiden rather than sanaa and taking the fight to hadi directly. later on thursday unidentified airplane hit his base and according to aids he is unarmed and he fled last month after shia houthi fighters took control of the capitol and says he is the legitimate leader and trying to build a power base in the port city of aiden and if supporters were able to take control of the airport it would have weakened hadi who declared the city as the temporary capital, al jazeera. israel prime minister appears to rule out the state

and benjamin netanyahu preelection comments sparked international criticism and criticism from the white house and patty reports. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu won reelection but the comments that may have help him get the victory could cost him and his country. in the run up to election he clearly said if he won there would be no independent palestinian state, not while he was prime minister. at the white house that was seen as a clear betrayal sensing anger netanyahu granted his first post election interview to american network arguing he did not change his policy. >> what changed is reality and they recognize the jewish state and a pact with hamas that calls for destruction of the jewish state and every territory vacated today in the middle east taken up by islamic forces. >> reporter: netanyahu often

clashed with president barack obama and his spokes men said netanyahu cannot take back his comments, words matter and they may have consequencing hinting they could pull u.s. protection of israel at the u.n. >> steps the united states has taken at u.n. have been predicated on this idea that the two-state solution is the best outcome. now our ally in these talks has said they are no longer committed to that solution. that means that we need to reevaluate our position in this matter and that is what we will do moving forward. >> reporter: potential resolutions could include granting palestine official statehood and setting deadline for a final settlement and then setting perimeters for a final peace deal and netanyahu said you can't impose peace but obama officials replied you cannot negotiate peace without a

partner either, al jazeera in washington. one main issue of contention between obama and netanyahu is nuclear talks with iran and spoke about the negotiations in annual address. >> negotiations made progress but gaps remain and there are people in both our countries and beyond who oppose a diplomatic resolution. my message to you, the people of iran is that together we have to speak up for the future we seek as i've said many times before i believe that our countries should be able to resolve this issue peaceful with diplomacy, if iran leaders can agree to a reasonable deal it can lead to a better path, a better path for iran and trade and ties and foreign investment and jobs and more cultural exchanges and a chance for iran students to travel abroad more partnerships in science and technology and

innovation. in other words, a nuclear deal now can help open the door to a brighter future for you the iran people. >> reporter: john kerry and counterparts had hoped to broker a deal by next week and james is live from switzerland where the two are talking, are they any closer to getting that deal james? >> well they certainly are significant sticking points and first worth responding to comments of president obama because we have some sort of response from the i ran side and when he got up this morning he was on twitter and said iran made their choice engaged with dignity, it's high time for u.s. and allies to choose pressure or agreement. and i think they want to remove the pressure the iranians and particularly at this stage talking about the sanctions and that is one of the big sticking

points here, how to remove those sanctions, particularly the u.n. sanctions, it took a long time to get all of those u.n. sanctions in place. one senior diplomate when i was back at the u.n. in new york said with the climate around the security council with russia, russia not keen on any sort of sanctions now so if you got rid of sanctions and iran was not to comply with a deal it's hard for agreement on fresh sanctions. >> how hard will they get the deal by the end of the week and john kerry is there and counterpart too, are they staying there? >> well, we don't know. john kerry we think has to go back probably on saturday or sunday because there is an official visit by the afghan president to washington, washington d.c. and rumors swirling for sometime and all week that maybe other foreign ministers would come here not just secretary of state and iranians and this is p 5

plus 1 as it's called of the security council in germany who are the international group that is negotiating with iran suggestion may be foreign ministers could come here nothing confirmed at all. worth pointing out meetings going on in the last few minutes in brussels of the european leaders involved in this the three european countries involved in the negotiation group that is the uk france and germany, france seems to have some problems with the deal, whether france is fully on board now after that meeting not clear. >> james thanks and diplomateing editor james. straight ahead on al jazeera they flock to the remote pharrow islands where a total solar eclipse can be seen happening right now a tech-friendly way to hail a cab but will intense opposition bump uber off the

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arrested in connection with the siege and 21 people were killed most of them tourists. in his first post election interview prime minister changing the business of statehood and he is commits to a two-state solution and preelection comments said he was against it sparking criticism from the u.s. new leader refusing to abandon the struggle against turkey despite a call by the jailed pkk leader abullah telling fighters to put down weapons and said they most be freed before peace achieved and this is from the mountains in northern iraq. >> reporter: buried in the heart of the mountains is pkk stronghold, to kurds it is a symbol of their struggle and great stones of pkk fighters is

testament to a long and brutal war. fighting stopped two years ago pkk leader in prison in turkey declared a ceasefire and is negotiating a peace deal with the turkish government and last month he called on his men and women to lay down their weapons and end their armed struggle in return for political reforms, cultural rights and recognition of the kurdish identity but new leader of the pkk says they were manipulated by turkey. >> translator: made a declaration of intent in his letter on february 28 and it wasn't a decision to lay down arms and in the same document there are many conditions mentioned which need to be met first including forming the committee in the turkish parliament for talks, other than that not laying down weapons. >> reporter: accuses turkey of being insincere.

>> translator: we know turkey will not release them from the prison, they want him to decay and spend the rest of his life there to ask no other options, if they don't move today they will tomorrow and he started this peace process and if they want to resolve the problems they must release him. he needs to meet us and his gorillas and without releasing him this peace process will not succeed. >> reporter: talk peace with turkey and pkk are battling i.s.i.l. in iraq and providing military support to kurds fighting i.s.i.l. in syria and says i.s.i.l. is a threat to humanity who has many backers. >> translator: some countries used to support i.s.i.l. and some are doing it like saudi arabia and turkey and cutter and some places i.s.i.l. is supported by iran and syria and international forces like u.s. israel and others supported i.s.i.l. and the main reason to

support the group is use it for their benefit and fought a proxy war on their behalf but i.s.i.l. got out of control and they want to keep it under their control so they can use it again. away from the battle for i.s.i.l. these fighters are free to move in this vast mountain range and thousands of men and women are based here and their women's are always loaded and their road to piece with turkey can still be far away for now the ceasefire is holding. there are moments of calm and fighters remember their fallen comrades and await orders either to resume fighting or abandoning their guns. ♪ i'm with al jazeera, mountains northern iraq. you can see the rest of that exclusive interview with mr. bank on talk to al jazeera, it fist airs saturday at 5430

hours gmt. greece prime minister says that he is optimistic after talks with eu leaders in brussels and trying to persuade leaders that proposed reforms are enough to unlock bail outfunds needed to avoid possible bankruptcy and a euro zone exit. european leaders refusing to raise the sanctions until it's working and doneled tusk says that russia has to meet all obligations under the so called minsk agreement before sanctions removed, russia denies military involvement in the fighting in eastern ukraine. 2 1/2 million people in sierra leone will be confined to their homes in an effort to stop the spread of ebola and it will last three days and cover the capitol free town and areas in the north. house to house search also be carried out to identify feel with the virus, over 10,000

people have died across west africa since the outbreak began last year. star gazers across europe have been witnessing a partial eclipse of the son and it will be full dark for two hours and pharroh between ice land and norway and people flocked to see the moment when the moon will block out the sun and we have the research fellow from london and live via skype and it's going to block out the moon that is is going to block out the sun in a great swathe and there are only two pieces of land you can see it. >> in the north atlantic where a shot of the moon is actually starting to cover that area. and the rest of the northern

europe we see africa we see a partial eclipse which is happening right now yeah. >> the moon goes around the eronce a month, it's inevitable now and again it's going to get in the way of the sun, why do people get so excited about the solar eclipse? >> most of the time the moon when it comes to new moon we pass above or below the sun but when alignment is such that it brings to this event we see a solar eclipse and that happens on average every six months. >> it's an amazing sight for anyone lucky to be in the path of the total eclipse, as far as science is concerned what can we learn from these events? >> well eclipse has modern technology and eclipse are very cheap and effective way of studying the sun and you can see the picture of sun of coronna

which people say in five minutes they will see something like this if the skies clear and the atmosphere of the sun the sun coronna is very hot and not clear why it gets this very high temperature but certainly we are emersed in the solar coronna and it's the way the sun has to communicate with the storms and all then guy -- this energy and it's important to know because eclipse are the best way to do that in a very cheap way. >> great to talk to you and thanks indeed for being with us. >> pleasure. producers of the new bond movie currently filming denied they gave mexico government a license to kill parts of their script and hacked e-mails are said to show changes were made in return for tax incentives

worth millions. >> reporter: mexico city the scene where james bond will hunt down international as assassain and they make mexico look good with aerial shots and cast a mexican bond girl and make sure the villian and his target are not mexican according to e-mails done deal. producer deny changes were made from mexican officials but said they relied on government help. >> government helps us get commissions and helping us with getting cooperation for the various places we have to shoot, controlling the streets with police and things like that. >> reporter: that claim that mexican officials got their bond girl well an up and coming mexican star did get cast as one

of many women in the film. >> translator: not only the bond girls evolve but movies and time passes by and the movie directors, actors do evolve that is why this franchise is still so successful. >> reporter: these accusations fit in the narrative of mexico doing anything to look good on the word stage and battered in the press for corruption and ongoing drug violence but mexico and the producers say there was no pay to play for the incentives. >> translator: no moment did we get involved or interfere with the script of the film. mexico likes to play its part and its potent is seen and recognized around the world. >> reporter: as manys of views of james bond know it's the first sequence that is important when they grab attention with color and mystery and producer says he has come to mexico city to shoot that as the dead of the back drop, one of the most

collarful and mysterious holidays. the main mystery of the film one from behind the scenes may never fully come to light, adam rainy, al jazeera, mexico city. now the uber taxi service exploded in popularity around the world and clashed with governments and traditional taxi industry wherever it operates from new york we report. >> reporter: the taxi cab an icon of the city whose popularity may be fading and calling for a black sedan summoned by a smartphone app and say it's more efficient than yellow taxis and it's so popular they out number yellow cabs in new york city and uber drivers are part of the reason why. he gave up being a limo driver to work himself as a uber driver to meet the increased demand. >> everybody is talking about

uber in new york, persons in general say to me they love uber. uber changed the city. >> reporter: don't write the o oover 4,000 taxi rides per day in new york city and 20 times more than uber rides and that is good news for bill a yellow cab driver who admitted uber is more popular with the tech-savvy crowd and not worried about the competition. >> a lot of business and enough to go around. >> reporter: if it's not in the city you live chances are it might be very soon. uber is so successful it has been flooded with venture capitol money from investors and thought to be worth more than $40 billion and that is money that will come in handy as it continues an aggressive international expansion. as this map from forbes it's in

55 countries everywhere a purple dot appears but rapid growth has not come without conserious si and hit with injunctions in five countries for allegedly not going by the rules and china and india markets claim to have a bigger market share and in a city that never slams -- sleeps it could threaten the yellow icon of the city al jazeera, new york. a show about innovations that can change lives. . >> the science of fighting a humanity and we are doing it in