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south sudan is deteriorating quickly. and the chile government turned violent. ♪ the u.s. led air strikes in syria now total more than 4,000 over a nine-month period. thursday there was an admission from the u.s. that one of those strikes near aleppo likely led to the deaths of two children. at the same time fighters from islamic state of iraq and levante are continuing to make advances in military campaign in syria and now they are trying to control the area between the western city of homs and anbar province in iraq and a cue fewer in palmyra which they are in full control of at the dire humanitarian situation there and the city has been without water or electricity for more than ten days and emma hayward reports.

>> reporter: everyone in this station appears to have fled knowing that i.s.i.l. has been edging closer day by day. but with their own camera rolling i.s.i.l. fighters are relentless in the destruction of any symbol of the syrian regime are still present. palmyra are in the hands of these fighters. just a few weeks ago i.s.i.l. was said to be on the run. [chanting] in the same video local people are shown to support one fighter. it's unclear whether that supporter is genuine. i.s.i.l. has used fear and terror to control before. the fall of palmyra has caused alarm and fear for the thousands of people who are thought to be trapped inside. many had come here seeking sanctuary from other parts of syria. and i.s.i.l. has struck the heart of syria's ancient past with its ruins now under threat.

>> we are set for different beliefs and we may have different views but we have to protect the future incredible human history and i would appear indeed that destroying heritage will not achieve anything. >> reporter: but i.s.i.l. appears to be intent in trying to advance further and with no clear strategy to strike back the group's momentum has taken many by surprise. there will be much soul searching in syria and beyond about how to stop the group from taking more territory, emma hayward al jazeera. i.s.i.l. is not in control of some areas east of the city of ramadi and now the group is said to be advancing where the military base is located there and territorial gains prompted cause within the united states for washington to rethink its strategy against the group.

anna fisher reports. >> reporter: shocked the white house and provoked strong criticism of its plan for iraq just a day before i.s.i.l. fighters swept into the city the u.s. killed a u.s. commander in syria, part of the obama strategy to degrade and destroy i.s.i.l. and providing training and equipment to the iraqi army and former republic president john mccain a senior senator said the loss of ramadi is a defeat. >> unwilling or unable to grasp the strategic significance as i.s.i.l. ransack ramadi by the way the pentagon's news page ran a story with the headline quote strategy to defeat i.s.i.l. is working. >> reporter: state department insists things are improving. >> in a conflict like this you have evidence flows on the battlefield and what matters ultimately is if we can get back on track, get the iraqi army

back on track and help them retake ramadi. >> they cannot relaunch offenses to retake a strategic city. >> this is a process to degrade them and degraded them in a number of areas and cutoff their main source of funding and having an impact and taking fighters off the battlefield everyday. >> reporter: the white house is rushing tank missiles to help iraqi security forces. in an interview with magazine president obama admitted the loss of ramadi was a tactical setback but added there is no doubt that in the sunni areas we are going to have to ramp up not just training but also commitment. and we better get sunni tribes more activated than they currently have been and senior u.s. military officers back from training forces say they see improvements, even if recent military games in tikrit seem to be setting the bar low. >> no one ran away that i know of and people fought and that is

a big difference than what it was before. >> reporter: the white house insists it's keeping its strategy constantly under review, after ramadi it will be asking what went wrong and how do they fix it. allen fisher al jazeera, washington. the saudi-led coalition has bombed a military site near sanaa airport in yemen, air strikes taking place throughout friday targeting houthi positions and saudi arabia denied reports that it targeted a houthi controlled refugee camp in the north on thursday which killed five ethiopians. iran cargo ship loaded with aid bound for yemen has arrived in djibouti. the foreign ministry says once the ship that is carrying food and medical supplies is fully docked it will be delivered to yemen's port which is under houthi control. a leading aid agency is warning that the humanitarian situation in south sudan is deteriorating

at alarming rate and doctors without borders says there is escalation in three states in upper nile and two other states and health centers are destroyed and the distribution of much-needed aid suspended. >> we have seen an escalation and continued use of violence against civilians. medical care and essential humanitarian care has been reduced. hospitals have been closed. medical staff have been evacuated. throughout this violence we see more people moving to the protection offensive yanukovich -- offensive and communication within the sites and approaching a wet season are all extremely concerning. >> we will speak to catherine live from nairobi from the press conference and we heard

harrowing details of what people are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. what does doctors without borders say is happening to them and the impact this has had on aid agencies? >> doctors without borders, jane, are saying they are not able to operate effectively in this conflict area. it's very difficult for them. they have pulled out in many of the areas where violence has escalated and where thousands of people need their help and saying people are hiding in bushes. they have treated hundreds of people with gunshot wounds. they were treating people in the hospital, in unity state, people with tb and pregnant women and had to evacuate and the people had to run into the bushes when violence escalated and, jane i also spoke earlier today to the government spokesperson the

military spokesperson in south sudan who said that government troops are now they are in the home and birth place of rebel leader and has been heavy fighting in the last couple of weeks around lia and that is how doctors without borders and other humanitarian organizations pulled out because of the security situations and 300,000 people are stuck there without any humanitarian assistance and we can't independently verify whether government troops have actually taken lia or not and we are just hearing what the spokesman of the military is saying. the situation there is still very fluid. now a lot of people are also fleeing this area to u.n.-protected camps in the capital of the state and coming with very horrifying stories of entire villages banned down and people being killed and women being raped and people being

abducted as well. the spokesperson of the military also told me in another upper nile state another rich oil producing air which is neighboring unity state, heavy fighting has been there which is very near oil fields there and the spokesman told me government troops have also taken maloot again and we cannot independently verify this but i must tell you that rebels are still controlling molaki which is the state capitol of upper nile state. now, jane, both sides of the conflict are trying very hard to gain as much territory as possible before the on set of the rainy season in june. >> thank you for that catherine. a top u.s. diplomate has been meeting government representatives in myanmar to address the growing refugee crisis in southeast asia,

secretary of state is due to give a news conference later on friday, after talking to officials in the capitol he said the only solution to the refugee problem was to address the conditions causing people to seek asylum. boats fill of muslim refugees have either been rescued or are stranded at sea after fleeing persecution in myanmar. malaysia foreign minister is meeting with government representatives in myanmar and malaysia are where many refugees are headed and rob mcbride has more from the island. >> reporter: that search and rescue phase has been ramped up in malaysia with the chief of the navy in this part of the coastline saying four ships and three helicopters have now been assigned for the task of looking for migrant boats, several other vessels are on stand by and only when they start to make contact with vessels that are thought to be out there will we get a real sense of just how many migrants there are likely to come ashore.

there has been an important breakthrough on the diplomatic side of dealing with the problem and that is agreement of myanmar to take part in emergency talks and next week on this crisis there was a meeting yesterday between the malaysia and indonesia foreign ministers with senior officials in myanmar and we don't know what was said behind closed doors but we expect the talk was very frank and forthright and telling myanmar it would be expected to take part and it is seen as a part of the solution being the source of the migrant vessel and i think there is a growing sense of frustration at almost ambivalence of many people in myanmar to deal with this situation with some senior officials even distancing themselves and saying that it's not really their responsibility so the very fact that they will be there at the negotiating table is indeed a breakthrough. >> that is all coming up on al jazeera, one year on since the military take over has oo thailand healed political

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to defeat i.s.i.l. in iraq and follows a fall of ramadi to i.s.i.l. forces in anbar province and white house announced they are rushing a thousand antitank missiles to help iraqi security forces. a leading aid agency warning the humanitarian situation this south sudan is deteriorating at an alarming rate and escalation of fighting across upper nile and two other states has destroyed health centers. to burundi where two people have been shot dead in a protest and battling for weeks over president's plans to run for a third term in office and we report from the capitol. >> reporter: women in burundi try to protest in the capitol. the police seem determined to stop them and did. the women are against president's bid for a third term.

. >> translator: we need peace and want to be heard, why are you beating us and what have we done and we don't want to die because of the selfishness of our leaders. >> reporter: the police eventually leave. defeated the women are too distract to protest. the police have shown they mean business business. the capitol has not been peaceful for weeks. and thursday police and members of the presidential guard disburse people trying to march to parliament where they were swearing in new ministers. at least one person was killed. people here say they are tired of the violence and death and begging the international community to intervene. >> translator: this person has been killed in front of us and president obama and the rest of the world need to rise up and be seen and need to stop this man. >> reporter: a heavy security presence in some parts here and many people say they don't feel safe. a man was shot and killed in

this neighborhood after that happened protesters got scared and they ran away and saying it has becoming increasingly difficult for them to come on the streets. government officials say nearly 200 people have been arrested since the protests began nearly a month ago and also have been injured or killed. despite this burundi will not stop until the president gives a plan to hang on to power. al jazeera. u.s. president barack obama is promising more economic and security assistance to tunisia and announcement after immediating the tunisia president in washington and patty reports. >> reporter: this is how the obama administration shows a country respect, a personal visit with the u.s. president, the press led in to see it unfold in the oval office and u.s. president barack obama made it clear why he invited the

president. >> it is important to recognize that the place where the arab spring began is the place where we have seen the most extraordinary progress in allowing all parties and all parts of the population including women and minorities participate fully in the civic and political life of the nation. >> reporter: and gave more than just kind words but announced he is designating tunisia a major non-ally of the united states a status only 15 other countries have. as a practical matter the biggest benefit is it gives these countries the ability to buy certain defense systems or material that other countries don't have access to and let's them engage in some technological cooperation with the u.s. defense department but mostly it's a way of saying we see you as a long-term important partner. >> reporter: state department

says since 2011 revolution the u.s. has given millions of dollars and geared to economic growth about $300 million and $175 to improve security and $80 to improve governance and the message to the u.s. is he is making progress. >> translator: however important the milestone that tunisia has reached in democratic process we are still midway and have a long way ahead of us. [gunfire] with the war next door he came here looking for military aid and u.s. says he will get it and asked congress to double the budget for security assistance in the coming here year. patty with al jazeera, washington. voters are taking part in a historic referendum and asked whether to amend the constitution to allow same sex couples to get married and gay couples are already allowed to sign this and friday's vote

could be the first place in the country to allow gay marriage by popular vote. appeals court ordered release of a former korean airlines executive and cho was convicted on a plane of being served macadamian nuts and she was sentenced in february to one year in prison. a year since the military toppled the democratic elected government in thailand and prompted by street protests calling for the government to step down and scott take as look at if the military has managed to heal political divisions. >> reporter: when the military staged the take over dismissing the elected government then army chief said they had to do it. thailand was dividing edging close to civil war. >> translator: it was a top priority for the military government. >> reporter: the political

divide between red shirts who support the prime minister and the yellow shirt with the programs by the brother when he was prime minister but one year on according to red shirts the reconciliation program is not working. >> translator: political party founded by toxin. >> you will want reconciliation but still you want to persecute and demonize and try to terrorize the opponent. >> reporter: the government says it's following a reconciliation roadmap and prevent violence and deny favoring the yellow shirts. >> translator: the political division is so deep rooted and it didn't just happen over the last two years when someone chooses one side of the political divide they often find they are not happy when they don't get what they want. >> reporter: to some it's much more than getting what they want. this is a so called red shirt

village and according to them there are 20,000 in the northeast and many say the reconciliation program is nonexistent. he started the red shirt village concept and leads a million supporters and the military summoned him for questioning three times. >> translator: reconciliation has not happened at all and it's a lie and we can see one side the treated badly and the this should not happen to prime minister and said he wouldn't stage a coup and then he did and said he didn't want any power and then he became prime minister. >> reporter: as the military government moves into its second year of rule reconciliation is just one of its challenges. it has again pushed back the general election schedule and it faces questions from the international community on its commitment to clamp down on human trafficking, this as it refused to give temporary

shelter for thousands drifting off the coast and in the red shirt heart land they are waiting for the day they can do this bigger than picnics and take a generation to the polls. tie land. police in chile fired tear gas during antiprotests. demonstrators demanding free education tried to break past barrier as the president michelle gave her annual state of the nation address. and latin american editor newman reports. >> reporter: protesters and riot police played cat anonymous on the streets for hours. even as chile president delivered her state of the nation address. a mixture of students trade union and representatives of just about everyone dissatisfied the way the government is handling the country came out to

protest. riot police in full gear far out numbered the demonstrators who nevertheless refused to back down clearly in the mood for a fight. violent clashes during the annual presidential address have become almost a tradition in chile and this year the atmosphere is more charged, exactly one week ago there was a protest here and as they were scripingly graffiti on the wall you see behind me the man living in the apartment above began firing on the crowd, killing two students right where i'm standing. as police held back protesters president focused on what she called her government's accomplishments. >> translator: chile is going through one of its most important transformation processes in its history. what we have before us is the opportunity to build among everyone a better country. >> reporter: but no one here was listening. >> translator: this is a protest by the social movement

that do not feel represented by what he is saying. >> reporter: the president recognizes that she has a serious credibility problem. she made a number of proposals to try to win back confidence but as a sign carried by these protesters reads we don't believe chile any more and needs the president will need to do much more than the proposals to recover her lost popularity. newman with al jazeera, chile. a mass funeral held in columbia for victims of a landslide that killed at least 84 people earlier this week and burials held for some victims while rescue workers continued their search for those still missing. more than 500 people had their homes destroyed. a grand jury in the u.s. city of baltimore confirmed charges against six police officers over the death of freddie gray. he died in april while in police custody after suffering a spinal cord injury. his death led to mass protests

across the country against police brutality and one policeman charged with second-degree murder. the briefing in the united states received a question from a cuban journalist. >> i'm from cuba. >> welcome to the united states and the white house. >> reporter: ten cuban reporters are in washington to cover talks between the u.s. and cuban diplomates, both countries are working to reestablish ties after more than 50 years. athletes are among those benefitting from closer diplomatic relations between cuba and the u.s. and races from both nations have for the first time taken part in a match in new york's time square and kimberly reports. >> reporter: it's an annual event in new york city every spring young athletes compete in time's scare for an international title and this year is different. >> we are all part of the same

world and people say you americans are so big and dominant. not when you are on the mat with another guy. >> reporter: never before has a cuban u.s. match taken place. due to a new u.s. policy toward cuba that was announced in december. it's not just the athletes locking heads. in washington diplomates are also fighting over details to end decades of hostile and reopen and both sides held a fourth round of talks. the white house acknowledged there is still some graspingly to be done on the diplomatic mat. >> the way the cuban government fails to respect the human rights we hold so dear in this country and there are too many cuban political activists cuban journalists who see their freedom of speech, their freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are trampled by the cuban government. >> reporter: cuban negotiators

want the u.s. embargo that has crippled the economy lifted and it was imposed in 19 6 2 and they are suspicious and would like to discuss the return of guantanamo bay the prison the main land but americans say it's not on the table right now. still this one-time congressional advisor says despite big differences progress is being made. >> what is very important here is they established a tram work -- framework to talk. the biggest change is you have gone from isolation to engagement and that in itself is a huge development. >> reporter: a development these athletes will hope one day will extend to the families and have not had the opportunities to travel under u.s./cuba policy. >> the sport is the best vehicle for diplomacy. >> reporter: as diplomates they

seek to score points one session at a time kimberly with al jazeera, washington. sports politics current affairs, you can find all of that by logging on to our website, our correspondent updated throughout the day. al jazeera.com. for the moment hillary clinton stands head and shoulders above a tiny democratic field in name recognition and campaign funding. when she supports same-sex marriage, going after corporate tax cheats, giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, is she demonstrating a shift in her own thinking or outflanking colleges in the race to the white house.